Kinaxis

JUNE 2, 2016

Kinaxis recently asked me to author a blog series on the topic of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Naturally, I was flattered to be asked to contribute to their popular 21 st Century Supply Chain blog. In this first posting, I will provide an overview of the six key areas I plan to talk about in my blogs.

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Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 3, 2009

Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. AMRs Top 25 Highs and Lows. Putting on my IBM hat, its great to see we are still in the top 5.

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012. Supply chain risk will not go away. At the start of 2011, I wrote a blog (Supply Chain Risk and Charles Darwin) that highlighted 2010 as the worst on record for supply chain disruptions.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 2, 2019

I was a practicing lawyer, before making a career change into supply chain. I worked at UTi for 15 years and learned the art of supply chain and 3PL business. I went back with purpose, establishing a healthy practice in commercial law and finished my final year (three-year degree) in the top of my class.

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JDA software

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I asked to be put into consulting for a year to gain credibility and ended up staying there for 10 years! I always joked that I was ‘gift with purchase’ when JDA bought the suite since I continued on at JDA from there. The post The Importance of Confidence in Career and Life appeared first on Supply Chain Nation Blog.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 2, 2019

I was a practicing lawyer, before making a career change into supply chain. I worked at UTi for 15 years and learned the art of supply chain and 3PL business. I went back with purpose, establishing a healthy practice in commercial law and finished my final year (three-year degree) in the top of my class.

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RELEX Solutions

JANUARY 5, 2017

Let me give you a couple of supply chain buzzwords for 2017; ‘Amazon’ and ‘Customer-Centricity’. Amazon has been the retail and supply chain story of 2016 but also for much of the previous decade. In 2016 it even made it to the list of top 10 biggest retailers in North America. Michael Falck. President, U.S.,

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