2003 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Food Inventory 
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Pharmaceutical companies are struggling with falling margins and rising inventories. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. In our work with pharmaceutical companies, most executives wince when we mention inventories. What Can We Do?
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 6, 2015
I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. In 2003, short-term forecasting approach using pattern recognition was invented by Terra Technology to replace rules-based consumption. I was a skeptic.
Kinaxis
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
I was on a call last week with a large company in the food and beverage space that has spent $100s of millions, and many years, on an ERP deployment. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters.
Material Handling & Logistics
OCTOBER 26, 2018
TOMPKINS: Sellers today find e-commerce inventory allocation and replenishment to be challenging. The allocation of the right SKUs and volumes to different fulfillment centers has proven to be an excellent opportunity to apply AI. The answer is not more pay, more time off, buying foosball tables, or free coffee.
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