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Transversing the Paradox River

Supply Chain Shaman

We speak about the need to move from a functional understanding to a global, holistic capabilities, but the traditional supply chain leader defines bonus incentives and process performance goals based on functional metrics. Supply chain excellence is about people doing powerful things with atoms and electrons to improve economies and lives.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. To accomplish this, the first step is for companies need to align functional metrics to balance sheet goals based on strategy. For success, an optimization engine must have a clear objective function.

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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

Supply Chain Insights recently published a Metrics That Matter report covering both the Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industries. Semiconductor is poised to consolidate, which will have huge impact on the metrics. by CJ Wehlage. Success, provided they monitor the 7 “elephants” in the room.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

The key ingredients of Dell''s supply chain are the partnership with suppliers, part modularity, vendor managed inventory program, demand management and mass customization. Definitely, they use a computerized systems and electronic data interchange to connect the stores and the central processing system. -

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. We believe it is the supply chain leader’s role to build and manage supply chain performance to drive year-over-year improvements which are balanced, strong and resilient. So, drum roll please….