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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

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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.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

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For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Customers are buying less. The Amazon Impact is having an impact on Wal-Mart and retail in general. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. What does this mean? The difference?

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

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Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. 19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015.

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Epitaph

Supply Chain Shaman

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006. The capabilities of the technologies were often more advanced than the processes of the manufacturers and retailer. The problem was larger and rooted in organizational issues.

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Supply Chain Movement 19 – Software & Leaders

Supply Chain Movement

16 | Profile Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo. This is an end-to-end Supply Chain transformation and a shift in the way that Diageo gets its brands from its own and third party manufacturing facilities to bars, restaurants, hotels and retailers, both directly or through a network of distributors.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

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The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. In this 2-part Supply chain strategy post , the Managing Director at Solventure – Bram Desmet, discusses the key elements of an excellent supply chain. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent? 2006-2009 I did a Ph.D.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

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To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Not many companies have cracked this code.