Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. Prior to joining Starbucks, he worked at the executive leadership level in Europe, Latin America and North America at ICI, a global chemical company. Here is an excerpt from the interview.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Is this success? I don’t think so.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. My takeaway?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. For most, it is a sore point.

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John Galt

JUNE 11, 2025

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones. A one number plan, Mr. Herrin told me, “is like an Excel spreadsheet.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Flexibility, in particular in manufacturing, is an important skill that when implemented well can produce long term efficiencies and robustness to the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

They wanted to know, “ How was the market affecting the chemical supply chain?” DuPont as a chemical supplier to the market sits four-to-five levels back in the supply chain with extreme demand latency (about six months) and high volatility of the true market demand signal due to the bullwhip effect. Why is this important?

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2023

It enables you to figure out the “what,” the “when,” the “where,” and the “how many” behind all your manufacturing activities: What: Determine the exact product mix you’ll need to produce to satisfy customer demand. Your master production schedule also enables you to understand the constraints across your entire manufacturing network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Last Thursday, we published an in-depth analysis of the pharmaceutical industries and in May, we will focus on progress in the chemical industry.

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Synovos

AUGUST 9, 2023

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). One pattern is a succession of short purchases in a location away from home.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. Not much movement towards circular economies has taken place since then; especially in how consumers prefer to buy, use, and dispose of products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

For example, - In some industries such as steel, chemicals, and other heavy industries, products are highly commoditized. Those people you are dealing with every day is actually your "internal customer" (as in lean manufacturing or six sigma initiatives.) You start the whole customer acquisition process and cross your fingers. -

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Let’s look at how smart food businesses can reduce their waste – and how the right food manufacturing software helps them do it. How can food and beverage manufacturers reduce their waste? The following five strategies can help food and beverage manufacturers to manage and reduce their food waste: 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

This includes companies like BASF, Clorox, Eastman Chemical, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, and Unilever. Buying From the Same Vendor Improves Integration. Lora believes that we are never too old to learn or push for supply chain excellence. Process Integration Across Functions.

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Established chemical company and leading sustainability ratings provider address critical risks and establish high supplier performance standards. The global chemical company will leverage the EcoVadis platform to reduce risk, encourage innovation and drive sustainable procurement performance across its supply base.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Over the course of four days, I heard some excellent presentations on cyber security, communication standards, artificial intelligence, machine learning, bots, supply chain, organizational anthropology and much more. Given the potential impacts across the supply chain, I was eager to listen to the speakers and learn as much as possible.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is not necessary to buy them from a universal database (such as UPC) particularly if you are just starting out and testing the waters. Of course, products manufactured elsewhere may already come with barcodes, and you may choose to use these. For portable use, a wireless barcode scanner may be paired with a smartphone or tablet.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Our team was recognized for our unique configure-to-order process for our microprocessors as a finalist in the Supply Chain Council’s Operational Excellence award in 2011. My role at Gartner makes me responsible to advise and coach senior supply chain executives who buy our “Chief Supply Chain Officer” service.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Dean is the founder of the IBP Collaborative – a consultancy that helps manufacturers leverage “Innovative Business Practices” to make step change improvements to how they plan, manage and govern their business. In such cases, manufacturers often experience four critical capability gaps. Why do you think this is? Here’s the problem.

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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

I rapidly came to the conclusion that these articles were excellent at the helicopter view of the challenges, however seemed unable to apply categorisation to the challenges. For example, is your focus on strategic long-term supply relationships to support your manufactured product? Manufacturing supply. Procurement Domain Name.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics. Finance is normally filled with excellent analysts with a good business sense, so the organization would be able to manage that talent well.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Others will have a purchasing or supplier management board at the senior management level. We are talking about a key business process that impacts multiple functions beyond just organizing purchasing or quality. A large number of European directives have also been issued concerning air, water, chemicals, packaging, and waste.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They discuss what it takes to create green industrial and manufacturing facilities from scratch. Creating Green Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities From Scratch. Product demand has a lot to do with creating environmental issues in the manufacturing industry. IKEA certainly has no problem understanding it.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. These credits can then be purchased directly by manufacturers. This is referred to as chain of custody.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Streamlines Internal Procedures Spending data analysis sheds light on similar purchases between different departments. It enables them to cooperate even more closely to create fewer purchase orders and get things done faster by grouping multiple items and services into one purchase.

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