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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. He further added: “ We are in an industry where quality and safety is top priority.” That alone is significant.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies with traditional definitions of marketing and sales struggle to beat the competition. A clear definition of purpose and alignment of business process to corporate strategy is an apparent characteristic of companies that outperform. They lack of a standard definition for supply chain excellence adds to the confusion.

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A Conversation with Don Teng

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The trend is definitely very positive and enthusiastic indicating a bright future for the automation solutions providers for the logistics industry in APAC. For example, forklift drivers, pickers, packers, quality inspectors and so forth, etc. How do you visualize the current adoption of Industry 4.0

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

Process definition? Most companies are moving backwards in S&OP process effectiveness due to the lack of leadership, clarity of supply chain strategy, definition of governance, and the lack of modeling capabilities. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. (The slide is precipitous.).

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies making progress are clear on the definition of supply chain strategy. For most –hamstrung by silo-based strategies for source, make and deliver–there is no clear definition of supply chain strategy. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. Employee Turnover.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

They tend to have many pretty PowerPoint slide decks–full of acronyms, pretty pictures and E2E commitments–but they lack a common definition of supply chain excellence. The lengthening of payables by Mondelez will boomerang into rising costs, quality issues and supplier viability concerns. Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Area Reactive Behavior Proactive Focu s Supply Chain Focus Focus on speed of response. Investment in control towers.