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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

In parallel, SAP launched technology platforms: NetWeaver in 2004 followed by HANA 2.0 Examples include allocation, available-to-Promise, and transportation routing. Innovation from best-of-breed technologies drives this change. Technologists will be under the gun to build planning value dashboards.

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The Power of Skunk Works to Ignite Innovation

MIT Supply Chain

Informal collaboration within and across companies can be a source of disruptive innovation. If so, you’re part of an age-old phenomenon that Peter Gloor, a research scientist at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, calls Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). COINs, often called skunk works, have been around for a long time.

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. For example, in many of my clients a well-implemented demand planning solution two decades ago is now degrading the forecast 10-15%. Innovation over the course of the next two years will make today’s solutions obsolete.

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E2open Acquires Steelwedge. Impact on Market?

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. Over the last two decades Steelwedge raised significant capital in three rounds: 4M$ in 2004, 16M$ in 2011 and 22.5M$ in 2015. Aggregator versus Innovator? I was not sure.

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Has China lost its relevance as a production location?

Supply Chain Movement

When I started doing business in China back in 2004, a general factory worker used to earn around RMB2,600 a month. However if you negotiate on these and break down the reasons and arguments, you can still get 500 pieces of a porcelain cup produced, for example – in your own design, of course.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). … a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. This impact declined at the start of the last decade, and the impact of the third-industrial revolution stopped in 2004.