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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital. Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late.

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Yes, I am a Zealot. I Still Believe. Do You?

Supply Chain Shaman

Most companies have made their own organizations more efficient (ROA), but they have not reduced inventories and they have pushed costs back in the supply chain on suppliers that are less able to bear them. Look at the gyrations of Boston Scientific and Eli Lilly for the same period of time. This has made the supply chain more fragile.

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Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Lessons from Nortel Networks

NC State SCRC

The ODM’s in Taiwan have a single tech park where they all started. At the time – it was all in Taiwan, and over time it was moved more to manufacturing locations in China. Nortel was on the first to create an outsource system house in Boston which was moved to Penang. I came on as the CPO, and the relationship got really bad.

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THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON SUPPLY CHAINS

Bristlecone

They are the last stop in the consumer products supply chain and typically, it’s an industry rife with channel inventory. This industry has largely outsourced its manufacturing to China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. they manage their inventory in European countries and supply to American hospitals from there).