Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. If you haven’t seen the movie or read the book, it is a great story in leadership. And we follow a pattern: you do an assessment, a sourcing wave, build a process, and do it over and over.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 30, 2023

I am currently halfway through his most recent book called ‘Embrace the Chaos’ about this inevitable transition. I was reminded of his comments about a change of era as I listened to an interesting presentation by Anton van Beek, a board member of the multinational Dow Chemical Company, at a recent sustainability conference.

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Unleashed

APRIL 2, 2024

Omnichannel retail success takes brand strategy, data-driven thinking, and collaboration according to speakers from the Omnichannel Futures 2024 Conference, says Glynn Davis. We specialize in creating candles with scents inspired by books and literature – a niche we proudly pioneered.” Experts discuss secrets to omnichannel retailing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

During the spring, I get to spend a lot of time in airplane(s) attending and speaking at technology confer ences. Open source needs maintenance. With the evolution of open source software, be sure that the solution that you are purchasing can be maintained and evolved over time. I have done this for a decade.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

An active entrepreneur and after founding five successful technology focused companies, he remains a highly sought after speaker in conferences, business media and other venues. Episode Overview In this episode, Professor Sheffi shares highlights and research from his latest book: The Magic Conveyor Belt, Supply Chains, A.I.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 21, 2013

I had the opportunity to attend the CAO conference in Chicago this week where I sat on a panel discussing the topic “Creating an Analytics Culture.”. The session was kicked off by Tom Davenport, the recognized ‘guru’ of analytics who has written several books and many articles on the subject.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

Jason Busch from Spend Matters gave another great speech at the Coupa INSPIRE conference in San Francisco which I attended last week. Jason made a joke at the conference that everyone found very funny from the outset. As an aside – Jason started Spend Matters in 2004 as a side interest because he was bored. ” ….they

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now if only other nations could take a couple pages from their play book. That said many countries are struggling to accommodate the new sources of power into grids designed for fossil fuel power generation. At the LogiSYM conference earlier this year in Singapore, I talked to a representative of a packaging solutions firm.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2019

I clumsily stuffed a fat folder into my bag and pushed it under the seat, and filled the awkward silence with an off-handed comment on my frustration with the editing process on the book that I was writing at the time, Bricks Matter. Balancing starting a business, writing a new book and personal life changes was taking its toll.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

Cloud and open source analytics are fueling new markets giving rise of new software providers in analytics with names like Board, Cloudera, EveryAngle, Enterra Solutions, FusionOps, Halo, Qlik, Spotfire, Transvoyant, Trifecta, and Trufa. The conference will be live streamed as we discuss five themes: Financial Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

On Thursday, I am speak on the future of supply chain technologies at an Eyeon conference in Rotterdam. It is the end of the fall speaking conference circuit and I am looking forward to spending time at home over the holidays. I find twitter an accurate source of data.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At the time, I started a research project on supply chain sustainability that culminated in my book “Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in Business (and When Not To)” (MIT Press, 2018). Often, these reviews lead to the establishment of new sources in other geographies, reshoring, and friend-shoring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. Mondelez also underperformed the industry average in growth, inventory turns, and Price-to-Book valuations. Post-conference we will host several share groups to discuss improving systems to better sense and drive insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

Companies need a planning solution to analyze the trade-offs between make, source, and deliver. Each company is busy–swamped with client commitments to drive faster in the old jalopy while dancing at the Gartner conferences under the halo of the Magic Quadrant. I term this bi-directional orchestration. So, why ride an Octopus?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The genesis started with the writing of the book Bricks Matter. The year 2012 marked the 30th anniversary of the use of supply chain management as a cross-functional process for source, make and deliver in the commercial sector. Sadly, while writing the book, I found that this was not the case. Why did I care?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Let me just state for the record that “Saying that you are going to write a book, is far more exciting than writing one.” Writing the book is helping me to get perspective. I would like to be on vacation with them, but it is not in the cards.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

At the Europe 2024 conference in Berlin , asked by reporters about the ongoing developments surrounding Boeing , he specifically indicated: “ I am not happy with the problems of my competitor. They are not good for the industry as a whole. Both reports indicated that CEO David Calhoun is not expected to be attending.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. The companies selected drive greater value than their peers: they are posting better results on Market to Intangible Book ratio.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader. Based on our research at Supply Chain Insights , today, 34% of supply chain organizations have source, make and deliver reporting through a common organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. I have been speaking at conferences around the world and inviting them all to watch the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit live streaming where we will debate these concepts. This is not an easy transition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. First, it is a conference for supply chain leaders designed for supply chain leaders. Secondly, at the conference, supply chain leaders tell their stories of transformation.

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Supply Chain Trend

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Incorporating Decision Quality A decision quality framework is proposed in detail in the book Decision Quality. Intelligent automation will change this. You can f ind detailed explanainations here.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 31, 2023

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Decision Quality A decision quality framework is proposed in detail in the book Decision Quality (Spetzler and colleagues, 2016). Intelligent automation will change this.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 27, 2015

In a conference call with investors in February 2015, Macy’s CFO Karen Hoguet summed up the primary objective of most retailers today : “We are making investments in growth, we want to accelerate growth, but it needs to be profitable growth.”. How can supply chain management enable profitable growth?

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding and shifting sourcing Earlier this year, a number of retailers told analysts that they had expanded their sourcing partners to diversify inventories and mitigate risks. Floor & Decor is one of the latest retailers to diversify its countries of origin by moving a large portion of sourcing out of China.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 13, 2014

Gerard Chick and I are working on a new book, that is effectively questioning whether procurement, as we know it, is on the right track, and if not, what it will take to get it back on track. Organizing for Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management Supply Chain Talent Supply Market Intelligence'

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Bandied about terms like best practices and “supply chain leaders” fill the air at supply chain conferences. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. I was wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room. The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. .” I drew the picture shown in Figure 1.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Like her book, Bricks Matter which advocates predictive analytics). wsjlogistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally, across multiple tiers, with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make, and sourcing organizations outside-in. The conference will be live-streamed as we discuss five themes: Supply Chains to Admire. Financial Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Instead, we found that the companies with the lowest total supply chain cost (a total of source, make and deliver) had average costs in manufacturing and distribution. The publication of a book takes a couple of years. What do you think?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. He is the co-editor of the first book of Maritime Informatics recently published by Springer. degrees Celsius,” states the Climate Action Tracker. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. Click the button on the right to see our sources. SEE CALCULATION × Sources for Freight Emissions The following facts are from disparate sources, but tell a consistent story.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

If you prefer to find the news yourself, head over to our free roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics and supply chain news sources. Compare and book international air or ocean freight rates from top forwarders, all in seconds. We’ve split the trends into the sections on the right. Prefer the summary? Keep reading.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Regarding claims that the supply chain would have recovered by now: “ I’ve never seen it so chaotic, honestly, from an execution point of view, whether its construction, sourcing, manufacturing, shifting supply chains or freight. Every game is different, and every challenge requires a different play book.

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