Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 21, 2017

The Supply Chain Index looks at balance, strength, and resiliency over time (see Figure 2). For Cisco, both have both decreased in this time period, see Table 1 and Figure 3. Cisco Systems has actually made the Supply Chains to Admire list for 4 years in a row ! That’s amazing! They are the only company to do this.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 12, 2017

Supply Chain Insights has just started a six month Putting Together the Pieces study on demand planning solutions. At the time, the significance of the server structure was completely over my head… but it makes sense now! This report series provides guidance to supply chain leaders in their technology selections. On-Premise.

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 17, 2016

Employees’ time is a constraint. Managing a global supply chain team today is not easy. We find that 59% of companies are experiencing issues in training and retaining mid-management talent. One in three companies have open jobs that are taking nine to twelve months to fill. Talent is scarce and a new constraint. It is a tough challenge.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 8, 2017

The eventual ROI figure from those previous promotions, along with other factors such as timing, spending level, store or market coverage and other causal data is calculated against the embedded mathematical algorithms to produce the best model. There is no correlation to a near real-time price impact, so how can that be sufficient?

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 30, 2018

The conference is just pure, unabashed sharing of innovation for three days. Instead, it is a time for innovators to share their insights on process innovation with others. (As a result, there are no technology salesmen eyeballing your tag.) You can roam freely in the audience without harassment. A Change in the Model.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 9, 2013

Each time that we run a new analysis, we learn more. Last month, we decided that it was time to take this analysis to the next level and not just plot the patterns at the intersection of the Supply Chain Effective Frontier, but instead, start to build a formulaic representation of market valuation. How was it developed?

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 3, 2017

But if your “fourth” was social media , stand up and take a bow, because you have just proven that you are a true digital transformationalist. YouTube on mobile alone reaches more 18 – 39-year-olds than any cable network in America ; and, 80% of the time spent on social media platforms is done on mobile phones. tic toc… buzzer!

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Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2012

It will be three to four, time consuming days to finalize the layout of the 411 pages. At the same time, it will be exciting to see the book come together. It will be the first time that I will see the 98,000 words of text with the 72 graphics. It is just part of our “ You scratch our back and we will scratch yours!”

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 27, 2017

Even in the short time we played the game, the competitiveness was starting to come out amongst the teams. The short amount of time given to make decisions in each round gets to be stressful for some. The game is a simple simulation of a supply chain where each month decisions are made by players and results are calculated in the game.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. There’s an old song lyric “ wherever I lay my hat that’s my home” (…attribution to Marvin Gaye).

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2012

They deliver pantry supplies to our small office in Baltimore <without charging us shipping> a couple of times a week. It is my goal, just as Amazon is leading the mission to redefine the retail industry, to redefine the Industry Analyst model and shift power to the enterprise buyer. ” I am a rebel at heart.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 6, 2017

I just cracked open my recent Amazon delivery of Mark Smith’s book, Blockchain: Step By Step Guide To Understanding The Blockchain Revolution And The Technology Behind It. And think of THAT data spooling into a block in nanoseconds recording REAL consumption – not just some mathematical algorithmic projections of use. Far-fetched?

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In Open Content research, we are dependent on companeis giving us their time to help us complete research studies. The network of supply chain professionals are telling me that there are just too many conferences in the market that lack content and are too commercial. The research is based on these volunteers. How cool is that?

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 25, 2012

We are committed to redefining the analyst model one step at a time. Over time, we will be connecting industry financial data to the quantitative studies that we are doing. If you have a project before we launch the full service, and need some data just shoot as an email.). Return the power to the user.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 19, 2012

They just are not based on “research.” ” I find most of the pieces are a waste of time. In most publications, I just do not find the rigor that I think true research requires. The delivery mechanism is either quantitative or qualitative research augmented by 25 years of financial balance sheet data.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 26, 2017

You must think in real-time and, at the same time, be looking ahead of the i mmediate threat to those you are about to face – and those come at you faster than you can often imagine. But like we say down here in Texas, sometimes it’s fun and exciting…sometimes it’s just exciting !

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 30, 2017

The digital transformation we are neck-high in now is just beginning; but it has already brought us significant breakthroughs in data acquisition and management as well as near and real-time consumer intelligence. Daily POS data provides more accurate and timely information before and during the promotion. Mr. Becket disagrees.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2017

For the times they are a changin’”. Bob Dylan wrote these lyrics as part of his classic 1960’s ballad, “The Times They Are a Changin’” to warn of the changes coming and how everyone needed to pay heed and be ready. Will be he who has stalled. There’s a battle outside ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows. And rattle your walls.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

Oh heck, why not just tackle the big one right away? In fact, being able to see what the promotion is doing in near real-time is the only way to avoid the ultimate pain of a failed promotion. If “going digital” implies changing the way things work, then how must digital transformation change the way trade promotion works today?

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Supply Chain Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In the 1980s commercial internet providers evolved. In 2001 Steve Jobs put 1000 songs in our pocket. And steadily, over the last three decades, mobile phones changed the pace of business. In the process, the banks got bigger and business networks grew more complex. In the last decade social networks and new business models evolved. I say ENOUGH!

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Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 15, 2015

We believe it is time to open the doors and let you join us in creating this unique experience for global supply chain leaders. ” It is our belief that just as athletes need specific foods and nutrients to power their bodies to achieve their best performance, so does a supply chain organization. What does this mean? All the best!

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