Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 28, 2021
In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. What do I mean? To illustrate, let me share a story.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
The year was 2004. Was it that Kraft was not clear in its definition of supply chain excellence (which was true) or not clear on how to best use the system (which was also true)? When I walk into a room at most Fortune 500 manufacturers, I am amazed at the loss of collective understanding of the principles of supply chain planning.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. My takeaway?
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 28, 2015
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.
Supply Chain Opz
JULY 15, 2018
Those people you are dealing with every day is actually your "internal customer" (as in lean manufacturing or six sigma initiatives.) You start the whole customer acquisition process and cross your fingers. - In virtually every company, you have to deal with other departments. Reference - Lam, S. Shankar, V., Erramilli, M. & Murthy, B.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 12, 2019
In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics.
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