Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2014

As an analyst, I watch trends and the progress of technology adoption. It is the adoption of new forms of B2B networks for supply chains. As background for the new reader, I have been an analyst in the supply chain management market for 12 years. My research projects have been many, and I love new technologies.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2014

In other news… Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). HighJump Software Releases Next Cloud-Based Solution: HighJump Route Administrator. Several reports have been published in recent years underscoring the growing importance of supply chain risk management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. With changing product profiles, short life cycles, constraints with downstream suppliers, and changing markets, being good at supply chain planning matters. The reasons are numerous. The gap has grown.

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QAD

MAY 16, 2019

The MMOG/LE assessment has been a go-to document for automotive supply chain best practices for thousands of global Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. Benchmark supply chain operations. The F3 criteria are core to the foundation of supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This thing called research in the supply chain market has many arms and legs. I struggle to find a good supply chain academic journal, and often speak to my academic network about the need for one. The original AMR Research analysis focused on a benchmarking sample of over 70 companies. In Search of Truth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

This was WBR’s first event in the United States targeted for the Medical Device Supply Chain Leader. Today, managing a medical device supply chain is tougher. This is why I think that the industry needs to get serious about supply chain management. This value chain needs a supply chain leader.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 31, 2012

From practitioners perspective , spend analysis usually involves a black box method, an expensive software system and its the thing for multinational corporations. In fiscal year 2002, the U.S. Data classification seems to be the heart of any spend analysis software. Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 26, 2012

” Or, a casual comment of, “We cannot run our supply chains like we used to.” However, none of the three companies knew this before the benchmarking activity. In fact, I am surprised how few companies are knowledgeable on their own performance on supply chain ratios. ” I smiled.

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The Supply Chainer Report

JANUARY 3, 2019

Following China Chang’e-4 mission landing on the far side of the Moon , let’s talk about the role of Forecast in business and more specifically in the Supply Chain. Supply Chain. do you have a benchmark?) Everyone needs a Forecast. Because living in a hyperconnected world means infinite access to data.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. A Long History of Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Bringing Circular Economy (CE) into the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry effectively targets two major fields: products and equipment (waste and consumption) and internal operations and networks (energy and data). Citing Cisco, there is global supply, but no global trash return. But first, what are the issues?

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that to manage logistics you have to manage relationships with people in the supply chain, and I also learned that there is an informal network of relationships that had to be managed in the supply chain… this was in 2002. And it is working great!

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