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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus cannot be about only continuous improvement of existing processes. Culturally companies need to bridge the difference between a traditional focus on continuous improvement and the need to drive a disruption. Pick five-to-seven balanced metrics and hold all functions accountable to these corporate metrics.

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Time for a Mea Culpa?

Supply Chain Shaman

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. They have a goal to be agile and aligned; however, their continuous improvement processes are making steady improvement on an efficient supply chain model that is anything but agile or aligned. It is a slow week. Most of my friends are on vacation.

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Evolution of B2B Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in Figure 2, buyers and suppliers push continuous improvement, and Kaizen events, in supplier development programs over B2B programs. To build this model, I flew to Arizona to develop it with Carol Ptak of the Demand-Driven Institute. The relationships are buy/sell. Building Supply Chain Talent and Leadership.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

” — William Verdini, associate professor and chairman of the Supply Chain Management Department at Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business, as quoted in The Importance of Education in Supply Chain Management , Reliable Plant; Twitter: @NoriaCorp.