SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
While Lean focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve seamless workflow, Six Sigma targets reducing variation and improving quality through data-driven analysis and statistical tools. – DMAIC methodology links tools and techniques in a sequential manner. – Comparatively simple deployment tools.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 26, 2016
In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. While we speak of collaboration, the focus is on driving enterprise results not value in value chains. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 28, 2016
The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015.
Freightos
MAY 10, 2015
There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 5, 2016
The market shift was dramatic, and if we had made a series of small cuts in staff or direction, we would have had the same fate as i2 Technologies or Manugistics. For many years (1992-2001), I worked at Manugistics, a supply chain planning technology provider. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015.
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