Boston Groups Lean Sourcing 
Enterra Insights
APRIL 27, 2021
Quick delivery, lean operations and a widely distributed footprint have been the top priorities. 3] Following year-long discussions about supply chain resilience, the Economist reminds us, “Resilience comes not from autarky but from diverse sources of supply.”[4] But as the Suez Canal crisis shows, looks are deceiving.”[3]
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and his colleague, and Arindam Bhattacharya, write, “We are living in a confusing, polarizing world of dizzying complexity and puzzling contradictions. If you don’t have a first-tier supplier who’s sourcing from China, then your supplier’s supplier is.”[7]
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JULY 21, 2020
Supply chain trends and practices today, are mainly driven by cost optimisation and lean strategy. This has proved to be a major source of risk. Poor business continuity planning, lack of risk management programs and single source suppliers, have magnified the impact of such risks.
6 River Systems
JUNE 29, 2020
Forming strategic partnerships with a select group of your best suppliers can allow you to capture a wide variety of benefits—including the potential for scale advantages and priority service.” When Toyota pioneered lean production in Japan back in the 1970s, its suppliers facilitated this by being colocated nearby.
Enterra Insights
JUNE 8, 2022
Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain, “The best leadership teams have spent the past two years leaning into the changes COVID-19 has brought to their organizations. And some companies see remote human labor as a temporary way to train AI algorithms that will eventually replace them.”[5].
6 River Systems
JULY 25, 2019
Debbie Lentz @RSComponents Debbie Lentz is the President of Global Supply Chain at RS Components and the Electrocomponents Group. I think it’s about two things: raising awareness and getting in front of new groups of people in order to get new talent through the doors, and then providing high-quality training to increase retention.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
130 
Let's personalize your content