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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Focus on functional metrics without alignment to a balanced scorecard to drive value. Over the last decade, in the building of global supply chains, organizations grew more political with gaming on metrics. Mistake #3.

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

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In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

While the industry is flush with terms like digital twin and what-if modeling, current applications were not equal to the need. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. Next Steps.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

I will share insights as we go along) The Word Salad Shuffle In the industry, I feel that there is a lot of word salad–consultants and technologists spinning words with little meaning to drive leads. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. On average, it takes 2.8

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Days of Inventory by Industry Sector Across Time Periods.

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