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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Let’s take an example. Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? Could Outside-in Thinking Help?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Let’s take an example. Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? Could Outside-in Thinking Help?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Let’s take an example. Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? Could Outside-in Thinking Help?

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Dissecting the Headwinds and Tailwinds of Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, Google/Tesla are redefining automotive. Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007. This includes driverless transport and local delivery. Examples include Uber and Lyft. Let me give you an example.

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Managerial Practice Will Need to Catch up with the Emergence of Real-time Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

Examples of visibility include demand visibility, market visibility, and supply visibility. Examples include the multiple layers of approvals for purchase orders, delays in decisions when a forecast deviation occurs, or the lack of response when a major disruption shuts down shipments to customers. These principles are not new.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. Blockchain/Cryptocurrency. Analytics (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing). 3D Printing.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

Explore how you can capture, harmonize and analyze this data to inform upstream processes. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. Into warranty systems? Trade promotion decisions? 3) Supplier Sensing.