Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 31, 2014
Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 18, 2017
I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. Let’s take a look at the world of the chemical manufacturer. As shown in Figure 1, the company has been unable to maintain balance on the portfolio of cost and inventory. In my youth, my mom would frequently exclaim, “Be careful where you hook your red wagon.”
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Zipline Logistics
MAY 19, 2020
As long as vendors have a two-to-three-day lead time on orders, they will have no issue covering them in most markets at cost. . Shippers should give ample lead time to reduce costs and ensure the order picks up on time. . Increasing lead times will help keep costs in line or near the market rates. .
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 15, 2022
In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. I loved my classes in supply chain strategy and naively believed that companies actively applied the principles of Porter’s theory. My vision was simple.
Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
But the systems currently in place were built decades ago, and economists say that delays and rising maintenance costs are holding economic performance back. 6] The Deloitte study concluded, “Governments will need to coordinate with the private sector and explore new financing strategies to get infrastructure projects off the ground.”
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