2001 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Inventory Sourcing 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 31, 2022
Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency.
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ToolsGroup
MARCH 25, 2020
Apple launched the iPod in 2001 during the dot.com bubble. Had they gone public (nice in hindsight), they could have had funds to ride out the dot.com era and to buy the company that bought them. Many people don’t shop around once they have found a reliable source. How do you prepare your company to excel even in trying times?
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 31, 2022
ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain. But when things go wrong, lean can lead to large losses in sales because there are no just-in-case inventory buffers.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 14, 2013
It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. In table 1, I compare ten-year averages (2001-2011) for food manufacturing companies.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing. We dug that company out of terrible financial difficulty after the “internet bubble” burst in 2001. This was my first foray into the world of supply. I have not looked back since!
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