Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results. During the webinar, a respondent asked me to not present just the facts but to give advice. Recently, I was presenting to a supply chain team in Europe. Harvard Business Review. The focus is on agreement on future direction.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Especially, I would say when we were talking about the Amazon effect I would say now it’s present more than ever maybe even changing the word into the COVID effect. And digitalization is more than present. I think it’s more that the idea of sourcing and how to buffer certain inventory will be definitely more localized.

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SCM Research

JULY 24, 2015

Some time ago, the winners of the annual Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2015 have been presented. and strategic sourcing ( Eltantawy et al. ). See also: Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2014.). Griffin et al. Schaltegger & Burritt and Varsei et al. Congratulations to all winners!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). Role-specific interfaces, advanced analytics, robust search and filter capabilities and exception management are a few of the ways data can be packaged and presented so that busy supply chain professionals can quickly move from data to information to insights and action.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Date: 28 – 30 April 2014. It is this ability to present the entire freight transport and logistics supply chain under one roof that makes Multimodal the go-to event for shippers, importers, exporters, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers – all seeking ways to run a slicker supply chain. Multimodal 2015. Venue: NEC Birmingham.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as they visit the Xmas supply chain. Source: Soar Boards, via Flickr. But it comes at a price.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The energy that drives the process comes from “free” sources such as agitation and pneumatics that excite the systems, explains Tibbits. The other is a material that expands 150% when exposed to water, providing an energy source. In this world, parts find other parts and arrange themselves into objects.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2013

The timing of my session was perfect because it followed a keynote presentation by Sanish Mondkar, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Ariba, where he showed (via a demonstration of a new solution called Ariba Services Procurement) what’s possible at the intersection of social and business networks.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

Typically they’re presented with three options; increase taxes, increase fees, or pursue federal resources. As the leader of the Public Sector practice at Ivalua, he ensures clients are getting full value from the Ivalua Source-to-Pay Solution at the local, state, and federal levels.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It is surprising then that despite the hundreds of millions of RFID tags sold this year alone that, according to results from the 2014 GS1 US Standards Usage Survey, finally saw the technology living up to the hype in the logistics industry in the last few years. Source: Morai Logistics. Source: SupplyChainOpz.com.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that was the main point of the keynote presentation: to illustrate to all the stakeholders in the HBM ecosystem (producers, suppliers, contractors, and haulers) the possibilities and opportunities that exist to elevate the way they communicate, collaborate, and orchestrate (plan and execute) their processes.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 9, 2014

If attendance at both conferences is anything to go by, 2015 is going to be even busier than 2014. We also had the most customer presentations with 11 case studies in total including: • ASICS. In wrapping up, let me give a quick shout-out to Watanabe-san of Abeam Consulting who presented the keynote in Japan. Dow AgroSciences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. The So What?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When filing a lawsuit for medical device liability due to defects, the lawyer only has to prove that the defect was present at the time of immediately after the medical device or tool was manufactured. The 2014 Rule was for class III devices. It outlined specific requirements and standards on how medical devices should be labeled.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. At an MIT conference last year, Tom Linton, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer at Flextronics, presented his top 10 list of supply chain trends.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We spent a good deal of time collecting research from a variety of different sources, to put together a picture of what the biobased economy looks like. Agrilculture Secretary notes that “This new report presents the opportunities U.S. Congress mandated the upcoming study in the 2014 Farm Bill.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Smartphone users in India doubled from 2013-2014, from 51 million to 104 million. In 2011, Nigerian startup Mall for Africa, which ships American brands to Nigerian consumers, took in $17 million in 2014. Another e-commerce platform, Konga, saw revenues grow 450 percent in 2014. The market is there. But Challenges Persist.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

Today, we’re proud to present Cathy Roberson’s… 3 Technology Trends Changing the Supply Chain (2015-2020) Part IV. In fact, according to eMarketer, there were estimated 1.75bn smartphone users worldwide in 2014. The office supply store, Staples began offering similar services in 2014 in the US.

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 8, 2009

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. So, why did I ask SanDisk to present? The use of inventory postponement strategies and the design of buffers was the focus of Kehat’s presentation.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

But by 2014, the U.S. A DHL whitepaper titled Building the Smarter Energy Supply Chain summarizes the situation well (emphasis mine): Much of the present exploration and development of shale gas deposits in the US is not being made by the the traditional oil majors, but rather by new players in the market.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

October 2014. Target) sources its denim jeans through a middleman (e.g.,    For example, suppose an importer sources a pair of denim jeans from a middleman, who in turn sources the jeans from a factory (see Figure below). Target) sources its denim jeans through a middleman (e.g., Every year, U.S.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 20, 2016

This morning, I happened upon a video presentation from MPI and Rockwell Automation titled A deeper dive into the industrial internet of things on the Industry Week website. In a 2014 study, 46% of manufacturing executives didn’t know what the internet of things was. So what is the Internet of things?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. And we follow a pattern: you do an assessment, a sourcing wave, build a process, and do it over and over. Over time, you get decent at this cycle. It is amazing that we do the same things.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Potential Sources of Disruption. Identifying sources of risk and developing a plan are only part of the story. data backups) taken in the present can payoff immensely in the long run. What alternative plants/factories/sources of supply do they have at their disposal? Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 20, 2015

Planning and forecasting in an increasingly complex and volatile global environment presents many management challenges, as supply chains are exposed to an many sources of disruptions and resulting financial impacts. Bloomberg News has just released its rankings of forecast accuracy through the end of Q3 2014.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 4, 2017

However, in the rush to source globally from low cost countries, the risk of product quality defects resulting in products recalls has often been overlooked by supply chain managers. With Trump’s call to limit global sourcing imports into the US, the global offshoring model may be at risk for a number of different reasons.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

percent from December 2014. percent compared to Q4 2014. Other data sources, however, suggest the market is in good balance. Make Better Logistics Sourcing Decisions with Data-Driven Optimization. percent in December from November , with December 2015 freight shipments down 2.0

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Other industries that don’t ship physical goods (for example Financial Services or Insurance) have adopted sophisticated Strategic Sourcing methodology for their Procurement. We first wrote about this topic in 2014 – if you can believe it – and unfortunately, in the intervening years, not too much has changed.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

The company’s efforts in these dimensions began in 2014 with the creation of Planning Services Centers (PSC) and eventually a North America Operations Supply Chain Analytics Center. As an example, today the company has over 1,000 planners performing supply chain analytics on a daily basis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In fact, it made me think of a specific chapter I read from Magnus Carlsson’s Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA. In 1995 IKEA faced an organizational shift in purchasing and sourcing methodology. Now bear with me here…. They wanted to expand their production, and become more competitive globally.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

The company’s overall share of container volume has grown from 22% in 2014 to 24% in recent months. According to the press release: Information presented via [the Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center] is powered by TransVoyant’s CDI™ Platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, Abby Mayer and I presented an update in a webinar on the two-year research project, The Supply Chain Index. The second company reads market data through syndicated sources. Coffee is in my future, and soon… This morning, I will be presenting on the opportunity for social data in the supply chain. The Real World.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One indication of China’s push for innovation is the fact that it has risen from 29th spot in Bloomberg Index in 2014 to the mid-teens in the latest report, although it did slip one spot this year. through the present crisis. .”[3] China is trying to do just that, while the American innovation engine sputters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

Industries that have formed cross-functional leadership teams combining source, make and deliver together have made the fastest progress. We will be sharing more on the Supply Chain Index over the summer in our monthly webinar series with a final summary presentation at our Global Summit in September. We enjoy writing them!

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing (Bel Group). She is the Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing, and she has 10 years of experience in Responsible Purchasing. Pascale de Felix . Pascale, how did you get into responsible purchasing?

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