Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 18, 2017
I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. As shown in Figure 1, the company has been unable to maintain balance on the portfolio of cost and inventory. Note that recent inventory progress is slipping against the improvements during the recession). Performance Data for the Chemical Industry for 2006-2016.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 31, 2014
As I work with teams to envision the new tomorrow, I find fewer people know the basic concepts of manufacturing planning–cycle inventories, freeze duration, slush period, bottlenecks and constraints. And, the service supply chain can be redesigned to have less inventory and more uptime. I live in West Virginia.
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RFgen
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
A large thunderstorm impacting Maryland and West Virginia caused an almost 193-hour outage that affected 145,000 people. Furthermore, asking employees to revert to paper processes or manual data entry during a disaster will slow productivity to a crawl at a time when functional warehouses will need to be more efficient than normal.
RFgen
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
A large thunderstorm impacting Maryland and West Virginia caused an almost 193-hour outage that affected 145,000 people. Furthermore, asking employees to revert to paper processes or manual data entry during a disaster will slow productivity to a crawl at a time when functional warehouses will need to be more efficient than normal.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 15, 2022
The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. I listened.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 15, 2022
The bonus incentive programs of the sales teams in software sent my humble West Virginia country girl roots into overdrive. Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. I listened.
Cognira
JULY 2, 2021
Mark’s relationship with AI started at a liberal arts college in West Virginia, where he studied Computer Science and minored in Accounting. Since then, Mark has been part of many different companies- from co-founding LogicBlox, to working for a private data storage company and hedge fund. Inventory Management.
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