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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The reason?

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Defining Supply Chain Excellence: One Column at a Time

Supply Chain Shaman

When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I wanted to write a celebratory book on why the adoption of new technologies and practices in supply chain had improved corporate performance. I am looking at the data for 2000-2013 for several reasons. ” I heard this time-after-time in my interviews for the book Bricks Matter.

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One Year!

Supply Chain Insights

I am also proud of the book, Bricks Matter, that I co-authored with Charlie Chase. The book is now in its second printing. Each morning, I awake to find new five-star reviews on Amazon for the book. In 2013, we will continue to serve this community by expanding services. It published on December 26th.

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Time for a Mea Culpa?

Supply Chain Shaman

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Let me just state for the record that “Saying that you are going to write a book, is far more exciting than writing one.” Writing the book is helping me to get perspective. It is tedious. I find it easier to write in the winter.

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I am MAD!

Supply Chain Shaman

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” The event will be invitation only for fifteen manufacturers and fifteen technologists. And, then quickly retorted holding up his phone, “but, we all know that there isn’t.”.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. Writing this book has been like a black cloud hanging over my head. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the Supply Chain Index work. The book is now 98,482 words and eight chapters.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. the company is owned today by 20 organizations representing manufacturers, distributors, hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs).