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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. I disagreed.

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Three Questions People are Afraid to Ask….

Supply Chain Shaman

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. Join us next week for our webinar on Supply Chain 2020. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. The book is a story.

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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. This starts by clearly defining the roles of each function, and then focusing the cross-functional teams on the same metrics. “Lucky me,” I thought, and smiled.

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Like A Green Lump of Clay….

Supply Chain Shaman

As I picked it up , I saw a twitter alert welcoming people to the APICS webinar with @lcecere on Agility that afternoon. As we went live with the webinar, I laughed. In this blog post, I publically answer the questions from the webinar. Q: You mention that Executive Buy-in is the biggest stumbling block. It was 6:00 AM.

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Raise a Toast to Digital Business!

Supply Chain Shaman

The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. This includes the automation of the list and driving demand before the store, driving demand in the store, mining the data from checkout and listening to sentiment post purchase. I give them credit.