Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 28, 2021
In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. The answer changes day-to-day and requires an optimization engine to measure market potential and align the supply chain to market demand while minimizing scrap. What do I mean? To illustrate, let me share a story.
MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. LinkedIn published my 100th Influencer article last month. One example is sustainability.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 25, 2021
As a guest writer for Forbes, public relations firms constantly pepper me with requests to speak to technologists boasting of having answers to improve supply chain resilience. I strongly believe that historical supply chain practices are not the answer. They need to evolve to help today’s supply chain business leader.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 9, 2016
Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS.
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Most of those emissions are associated with corporate supply chains. Clearly, companies need to begin to more fully consider their supply chains, working to make them more resilient, sustainable and ethical.” He writes, “Promoting sustainability throughout a complex supply chain is incredibly challenging.”[2]
QAD
MAY 12, 2022
Shortly after joining Apple, Cook streamlined Apple’s supply chain. In 2014, Cook surprised the financial world by telling shareholders to “get out of the stock” if they didn’t believe in the need for sustainability and the acceleration of climate change. . Contributions to Manufacturing Sustainability.
Supply Chain Trend
MARCH 13, 2022
How can we explain to smart new graduates, having worked with all new types of technologies in university, that this is going to be their job as supply chain planner? This has to change if we want to attract and retain talent into the supply chain. Transition of the planner’s role. That will finally change.
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