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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Resist the temptation to place deeper analytics on top of existing data models. This means building a cognitive engine to sense, learn, and adapt using market data for innovators. Out of desperation, they turned to the use of descriptive analytics. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results.

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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with honesty and a focus on process innovation. In general the ERP technology providers underperformed, and the investment was an opportunity cost to the adoption of new forms of analytics and building effective business networks. The Focus Inside-out Supported by Functional Metrics. Reversing The Trend.

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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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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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2018: What Will It Look Like?

Supply Chain Insights

Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. Analytics Approaches. Confluence of Technologies.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. Mistake #3. My challenge? Measure it.

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