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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

I was on my way to Peru. Over the course of trip to Atlanta to connect to Peru, we began a discussion. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. The conference will be live-streamed. I scooted into an aisle seat and sat beside a stranger. He introduced himself as Steve.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

The metrics reward functional thinking. Typing this quickly in the Atlanta airport as I run for a plane for Lima, Peru. 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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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. The conference will be live streamed. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. This work is important to me.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. As a result, at conferences, I am often introduced as a consultant. The conference will be live-streamed. Today, I unpacked my bags.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference]. With parcel becoming a growing part of virtually every company’s transportation operations, gaining more real-time visibility to delivery status and other metrics is critically important.

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Copper in flux

Resilinc

Vanessa Davidson, top copper analyst at business intel firm CRU, attributed the weak pricing to “the possibility of lower GDP or industrial production triggered by geopolitical risks, high inflation becoming more embedded in the economy, or the effects of Covid-19 lasting longer than anticipated,” at a June 13 mining conference.