2014 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Innovation Sourcing 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. The reason?
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 8, 2016
As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. It is a story of supply chain innovation. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 25, 2021
Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. Let’s start with honesty and a focus on process innovation. Trade-offs of commercial programs with source, make, and deliver to maximize value to the customer and improve margin.).
MIT Supply Chain
JULY 10, 2014
Supply chain strategies often include some sort of commitment to innovation, but if the organization is not set up to be truly innovative it’s an empty promise. And the consequences can be severe if your competitors are doing more than paying lip service to innovation. The new laminate had to be in production within 12 months.
GlobalTranz
MAY 13, 2015
However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. It says it will do that by “clarifying retail career paths, better pre-employment training, more innovative and relevant on-the-job and supplemental training and credentials that employers will accept for advancement.”
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