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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

From April 2004 to December 2005, Waggoner served as Chief Executive Officer of USF Bestway, and from January 2002 to April 2004 he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for USF Corporation.

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Tackling Item Complexity

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked with the World Kitchen team in the period of 2002-2008. This case study from 2004 outlines a process to manage complexity and improve agility. The process helped World Kitchen manage inventories through bankruptcy filing in 2002. In 2002, World Kitchen implemented a disciplined process for managing product complexity.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. We were better at factory scheduling in 2002 that we are currently. Executive Understanding.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Fed raised rates. LTCM crisis. Glass-Steagall repealed. Tech bubble burst. Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2000-2002 I used to get a press release weekly on the launch of new B2B network models. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint. The Gartner vision for ERP II in 2002 was destructive. In the period of 2000-2005 the trading exchange model was overhyped, and the software largely under-delivered against the business goals.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

First Phase: 2002-2006. We were an early adopter of the E2Open technology and we experimented on building B2B networks early in 2004. Prior to that, the priority has chasing lower cost labor in manufacturing and supply chain. Those had a finite length of improvement. The focus then shifted to matching demand and supply.