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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

For more on this topic, read the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. Procurement. Procurement programs are implemented as standalone processes.

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Driving Organizational Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. 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. In the beginning, the emerging supply chain concepts focused on functional excellence.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Demand-driven concepts are expansive they extend from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier, but the areas of sales and procurement are often very resistant to the demand-driven concepts. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop. Everyone seems to have a new one.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. The metrics reward functional thinking. New Business Models. Making the Digital Pivot.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. source Moody’s). Barrier #1.

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6 Manufacturing Trends to Watch Out for in 2016

GlobalTranz

Manufacturers will integrate e-commerce systems with IoT (Internet of Things) initiatives. Security must be enhanced during the design, production, sourcing, and distribution phases, and even after the purchase is made. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.