Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. The question was, “What mattered? Schneider Electric Strategy.

Inventory Reduction 53

Inventory Reduction Material Savings Supply Chain Strategy Price Mitigation Strategies 53

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. Inventory piles up and revenues gaps are closed by pushing product into the market. It was not an ideal design.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wave 2, Advanced Planning Systems (APS), first adopted in the 1990s, facilitated a forward view of the business, integrated plans with other functions, and optimized supply-chain metrics such as forecast accuracy, inventory holdings, and customer service. Figure 1 is an image from the cover of the book.

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