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

Supply Chain Shaman

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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Companies with advanced supply chain practices excel in delivering quality third-party logistics management, SKU optimization, efficient transport management, and swift handling of B2B/B2C shipments. allowing them to shift their focus towards core activities like market share and product management. In a study conducted by Nicholson et al.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders).

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. 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. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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Seasoned Leadership in Actionâ„¢! An Interview with Michael Massetti, VP at Gartner!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

Food Drive-Thru Experiences. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. Historic processes are inside-out tightly integrated to orders and purchase orders. Defining the Customer Experience Through Supply Chain Excellence.

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Beroe Founder Vel Dhinagaravel speaks at NC State on Origins of Company

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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. Food in colleges is horrible in India. Let me illustrate this with a story first.