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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. Calculating inventory parameters, using Linear Programming to optimize planning. This week I had a workshop where we made a fishbone diagram of what drives excess inventory and/or stock-outs.

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Top 10 Best Supply Chain Job Boards

SCMDOJO

National Association of Educational Procurement. As some of you have already seen we have written 60 plus blogs on Career Advice for Supply Chain Professionals. National Association of Educational Procurement. NAEP maintains its status as the leading association dedicated to procurement professionals in higher education.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

These projects all invovle cutting edge topics that are often discussed in blogs and websites. Lenovo Excess and Obsolete Inventory. This project is the e xtension of an executive workshop we ran last fall. Metrics should be focus on managing a bank’s Procurement and Payment Program, not on managing individual vendors.

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The American Red Cross: A New SCRC Partner Company Engages the Influence Model!

Supply Chain View from the Field

I had the opportunity to visit with the American Red Cross in Charlotte, NC yesterday, and held a negotiation workshop with the supply chain directors and managers. She was also able to establish inventory strategies for five large distribution centers that form the neural network for the entity’s emergency operations.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Today as I sit scrunched into a coach seat in 26C, working on this blog post and hoping to not spill my coffee on my neighbor, I dutifully type to complete my weekly post. I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Holiday travel. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. This is the world view of finance and why there is so much friction between procurement and finance.

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Supply Chain Management:Get,Set,Go-Agile Implementation of.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.