Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. In 2011, Yannis Skoufalos became the Global Product Supply Officer at Procter & Gamble. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Discontinued in 2011.

Procurement Analytics 332

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. I am not surprised.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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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. Our team was recognized for our unique configure-to-order process for our microprocessors as a finalist in the Supply Chain Council’s Operational Excellence award in 2011.

Gartner 74

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. Simon Sinek’s popularised finding meaning in his 2011 book and Ted Talk ‘ Start With Why ’. He called his idea ‘the world simplest idea’ and introduced that ‘people buy why you do things not what you do’.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I followed his journey during the period of 2006-2011, and wanted to check in with him to gain his insights on the selection of VTech as a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire research. Initially, this led to operating losses and write-offs and was turned around in 2002. The answer was simple. Slowly, my process thinking evolved.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. These credits can then be purchased directly by manufacturers. Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs.

Modeling Software 56

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