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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. You will seldom see them on an event stage. I admit it. Lora was as well.

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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. The idiom, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, symbolizes working on something pointless or insignificant because it will soon be overtaken by events. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? Tom Peters.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

The use of descriptive analytics along with agile planning techniques (what-if analysis, discrete event simulation, and network design) helped. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. Analytics investments are essential. Responsive.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. The continued focus on functional metrics like Purchase Price Variance (PPV), manufacturing costs, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), and transportation costs throws the supply chain out of balance. Mistake #4.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. Each year, we ask attendees to rate the event based on a 1-5 score (with five being the best).

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Overview of European supply chain events 2015

Supply Chain Movement

Did not have or make enough time to attend any events this past year? Supply Chain Movement helps you along with an overview of the most important European supply chain events in 2015. Supply Chain Movement helps you along with an overview of the most important European supply chain events in 2015. Vector Event.

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