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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

For many readers that know my background, they know how deeply I have thought about the topic. So much so that in 2010, I believed that the convergence of social and traditional enterprise applications would happen quickly. They excel in the four Ps of marketing. They understand how to shape demand to maximize profit.

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Parts Are Not Parts

Supply Chain Shaman

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. PFEP optimizes the policies that define how to procure each part. Unfortunately, this PFEP “tune-up” often uses very time-consuming and manual Excel analysis that limits the frequency of optimization.

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The basics of customer-centric multi-channel retailing (Part 1)

DELMIA Quintiq

The creation of a seamless multi-channel buying experience should always be balanced against the reasonable expectation for profit. Read also: How to achieve operational excellence with integrated retail planning. Capgemini Consulting (2010), A Framework for Enabling Multi-Channel Retailing. External References: 1.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite the significant amount of effort involved in going from running a business on Excel spreadsheets to implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP), they are very grateful that their efforts to improve their supply chain agility were underway when the pandemic hit. Peet’s has been doing DSD, on a growing scale, for several years.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

are working on a“if all you have is a hammer, all you see is nails” problem – they have been making boxed, canned and otherwise shelf-stable packaged food for well over a century but now consumers and retailers are looking for fresh foods and they don’t know how to adapt. In 2010, Kellogg produced cereal with liners in the box with an odor.

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The prevalence of smoking is going down, but the world’s population is increasing; the net result is that the forecast for the number of smokers is essentially flat in 2025 as compared to 2010. They put significantly more parametrized data variables in the River Logic model than what they were using with the Excel models.

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