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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system. Procurement. client meeting.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. In a nutshell, the research states there is a correlation between cost, inventory, and forecast performance. The streets below me today are icy and wet. It is a dark and dismal day.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred.

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Supply Chain: The True Game of Risk

Supply Chain Shaman

Procurement focus shifted from traditional programs focused on solely on contract management, price and term negotiations, and supplier scorecards to include the evolution of supplier development to manage product quality and multi-tier supplier relationships in and across value chain relationships. Focus on Multi-Tier Inventory Management.

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What Remains the Same?

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service. We hope to see you at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. .” This takes many forms.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

While companies want to improve costs and inventory, most are going backwards. The Supply Chain is a Complex System with Increasing Complexity. While many consultants will wave their hands and promise improvements in costs and inventory through projects, take pause. Avoid Artificially Constraining Inventory Levels.