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Have You Given Your Planner Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

It took six months for supply chain executives to sense the market downturn of 2007 and make adjustments to their supply chain. 2) The Story of Policy, Strategy, and Modeling. The supply chain combines policy, strategy and models. Ask data modelers using supply chain strategy tools to validate policy and refine the outcomes.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

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. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. Let’s learn from the past to unlearn to rethink supply chain excellence.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Order Policy. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Instead, it needs to be based on the requirements of customer policy and the supply chain strategy. As a result, buyers should buy based on today’s functionality.

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Why Your Approach to MDM Matters: Single Domain MDM Versus Multidomain MDM

HICX Solutions

McGraw Hill, 2007. A solution is to buy a workflow tool to overlay on top of the MDM platform, but again cost implications must be taken into account. One business requirement that derives from governance is that a process for capturing excellent data must be established upfront. Single version of truth.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

VTech drove significant improvement in operating margin through the recession of 2007-2009 and then drove improvement in both inventory margin and operating margin for the period of 2010-2012 with some regression in the period of 2013-2015. I remember September 2007 very well. In April 2007, new housing starts collapsed.