Books Chemicals Inventory Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 8, 2014
My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. Writing a book is a labor of love. It is my second book. To give readers a sneak peek for the book, here I share my interview with Peter. Peter is one of sixty-five companies that I have interviewed for the book. I am behind.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 12, 2020
Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. The reason?
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 23, 2020
I am also developing a framework for my new book. Orbit Chart for Ecolab at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin Versus the Chemical Industry for the Period of 2010-2019. Procurement and transportation operated as islands. Stay tuned. Each company ranks in the 4% of companies beating their peer groups.
Resilinc
OCTOBER 11, 2022
There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. But in his 2021 book “ Sense and Sustainability ,” Chaturvedi shows he’s an idealist as well as a realist. In your book, you recount a conversation with a senior exec at a U.S. Obviously, most will choose the cheaper iPhone.
USC Consulting Group
JANUARY 10, 2022
Some operations consultants are advisory consultants, or “boardroom consultants” who perform a two- to three-week study and provide a book of recommendations to help you out, and then hand it to you and go on their way. It’s a useful process, but we’ve found it’s missing a critical area: Inventory.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 14, 2013
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and chemical companies are close behind, but they are having difficulty “taking the hill.” When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. These reports will be the foundation of the new book that we are writing for 2014.
Supply Chain Opz
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
Therefore, a firm would be well served to develop a supply chain strategy as described in my book: Supply Chain Transformation. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times. These are three examples: Rule 3.1:
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