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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. After two decades of study, I think because it is a lack of understanding. A Case Study. 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. The reason?

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Here is a link to the healthcare research study in the field. Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. Figure 2 contrasts the state of cash-to-cash cycles between 2000-2003 and 2008-2011.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. In Figure 1, I contrast the drivers and trends from a recent study. I was a skeptic.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. I studied Industrial Engineering and Operations Research focusing on Optimization Theory. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

The latest smart manufacturing concept that we developed and demonstrated is the robot-on-a-cart concept for autonomous assembly or conveyer tending. The allocation of the right SKUs and volumes to different fulfillment centers has proven to be an excellent opportunity to apply AI. Drones & Autonomous Vehicles.