Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Higher spikes for lumber and building supplies. I know of few areas in supply chains discussion that raise as much dialogue or ire. I have been an industry analyst covering the market– Gartner, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and my own company Supply Chain Insights– since 2001. What are they seeing?

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is something supply chain practitioners live every day and not just during the election process. Like the pollsters, demand planners in particular, model the future. The lessons are actually borrowed from a post written by my colleague, Trevor Miles, from 2013 called Truth, Lies and Statistical Modelling in Supply Chain.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable. We know it’s going to happen.

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