Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Their goals were lofty, but their understanding of supply chain planning was hazy. In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Tactical Supply. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Supply Chain Design. Frequent and systemic supply chain design.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a published report indicating that Mexico is increasingly benefiting from a rethink of prior globally extended supply networks. Most of such product business and strategies are predicated on a focus toward major geographic market needing support. percent on a year-over-year basis to $52.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2014

However, today I am currently involved in a research process where I am seeing fast and demonstrable results. It is the adoption of new forms of B2B networks for supply chains. As background for the new reader, I have been an analyst in the supply chain management market for 12 years. It is important.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 11, 2014

“This is not a supply chain process. In 2013, 80% of supply chain leaders had a material supply chain disruption. Yet, in a study that we just completed, when asked about business pain, supply chain risk rates low. Unfortunately, too many supply chains are reactive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. Supply Chain Organizations By The Numbers. A Look at History.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights published findings from a recent survey conducted among U.S. based companies doing business within, or sourcing supply chain materials and production within China. Bloomberg noted in its report that 2022 was the worst year for foreign based manufacturers in China over the past 20 years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Yesterday, I finished a post on supply chain planning maturity. A client had asked me, “How do I know if we have a mature supply chain planning organization?” Excellence in supply chain planning is a cultural shift. The average supply chain leader has five distinct supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

I have worked for Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and now my own company, Supply Chain Insights. I have now been an industry analyst in the supply chain management space for ten years. This month, I am proud that the Supply Chain Insights team will announce the Supply Chain Index.

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Cathy Roberson

JULY 10, 2021

President Biden’s July 9th Executive Order , Promoting Competition in the American Economy, created quite a stir in the supply chain community regarding the potential impact on the ocean freight and railroad markets. Often times we’ve utilized third-party repair shops or sent our items to manufacturers for repairs.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We founded Supply Chain Insights on February 9th, 2012. Supply Chain Insights is a true bootstrap startup. I am proud that we have published 24 reports, completed 14 quantitative research studies and have had over 72,000 views of our work on Slideshare. The research is based on these volunteers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This is the third birthday of the Supply Chain Shaman. At the time, I had just left AMR Research. When I went to Altimeter group, my friends Charlene Li and Jeremiah Owyang said that I should be like a “shaman” and help supply chain leaders embrace new technologies. Research is at our core.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In supply chain strategy documents, terms like alignment, agility, responsiveness, and flexibility dot the page. The average supply chain organization is fifteen years old, and the practice of supply chain management is just thirty years old. How can we move forward if we cannot align?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2014

We talked furiously about the design of the End-to-End Supply Chain (E2E). Based on the research that we are doing, we can see that the programs are not growing. Instead, they are caught between sales-driven and supply-driven processes. The more research that I do, the more I scratch my head. We were excited.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 11, 2016

Supply Chain Insights is now four years old. At our core we are actively trying to redefine the analyst model to be friendlier, more insightful, and complete for the supply chain leader. Help us to make manufacturers, distributors, and retailers more effective. The Focus of Supply Chain Insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. ” I smiled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. Life is busy on the road, but I am deep in thought about the wild things, the beasts at work that are undermining supply chain progress. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

Supply chain leaders are competitive and they want to measure their success. In many businesses, assets are a core part of the supply chain. For five of the past ten years, I voted on the Top 25 when I was an analyst at AMR Research (before the acquisition of AMR Research by Gartner). The reason why?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

In the supply chain, the questions do not change; but the answers do. Quote from a Supply Chain Leader at a Conference in Europe. Yesterday, Peter Bolstorff, Executive Director, APICS Supply Chain Council, called to discuss the use of the Supply Chain Index by APICS to measure supply chain improvement.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We salute the year’s top advancements in supply chain technology and processes. Thanks to omni-channel distribution, 3-D printing, self-service logistics and other avenues of disintermediation, traditional supply chain roles are rapidly being transformed into all-new opportunities. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

This was WBR’s first event in the United States targeted for the Medical Device Supply Chain Leader. Today, managing a medical device supply chain is tougher. This is why I think that the industry needs to get serious about supply chain management. This value chain needs a supply chain leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

For many years (1992-2001), I worked at Manugistics, a supply chain planning technology provider. It was refreshing for me today to talk to Adexa and see their fresh approach to supply chain planning. Today I am deep into writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2013

I enjoy writing research. I am currently writing an article on supply chain excellence. The time off the road is allowing me to think more critically about the path that got us here, and about what drives supply chain excellence (or more importantly, what does not drive improvement). I am tired of buzzword bingo.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2014

The infiltration of fake medicines into the pharmaceutical supply chain is a major problem, and conventional methods for detecting fake medicines are generally inadequate. The research explores a new approach to combating drug counterfeiters: devising mitigation strategies based on the way dispensers procure medicines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Consumers became more loyal to retail brands, and retailers increased the number of products manufactured and marketed as house brands. This trend spawned chains like Trader Joes, Walmart, Whole Foods, etc. In my research, I do not see that any retailer has really redefined value chains through collaboration.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. For that reason, you need to research to find the most searched keywords in your niche. Some of these include liking your content, watching your online videos, subscribing to your monthly newsletter, or signing up. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Companies should implement supply chain best practices. Companies that have focused on collaboration in the supply chain have built competitive advantage. Supply chain excellence matters. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions. Today’s supply chains run on spreadsheets. Priced in RFPs as 1.6M

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 30, 2009

Green Supply Chain. Lean Manufacturing/Supply Chai. Manufacturing Technology. Retail Supply Chain. Supply Chain Agility/Flexibili. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Network Design. Supply Chain Optimization. Supply Chain Risk.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The upshot from a supply chain perspective is that the new generation of factory robots makes production systems more agile and helps companies to compete in fast-changing markets. However, robots are now being deployed in areas that were once the exclusive preserve of humans, raising new challenges for manufacturers. “In

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 16, 2021

The MITx MicroMasters program in Supply Chain Management created by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics provides a telling example of how this organic community growth takes place alongside a global professional development program. These exchanges need not be confined to the supply chain discipline.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2013

This post will be published in the fall 2013 issue of MIT CTL’s online newsletter Supply Chain Frontiers. In 2001 the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become overly reliant on a small group of industries, notably auto manufacturing. Subscribe to Frontiers here.

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Ware2Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This year, an added layer of complexity is the big spike in consumer demand and non-stop news coverage of supply chain challenges serving as a constant reminder to buy early. Shoppers aren’t making the same mistake they did last year ordering at the last minute and being forced to give gifts late. The Bottom Line.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 19, 2015

China’s logistics industry is gaining in importance and developing rapidly to support the nation’s manufacturing sector. While China has gained a reputation as a cost effective place for manufacturing, logistical costs (about 18% of the cost of sales) in the country are still very high compared to other developed countries.

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Requis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Muddassir Ahmed is a supply chain strategist, researcher, and educator. Supply Chain Next · 015 – Dr. Muddassir Ahmed. Can you give us some highlights from your journey into supply chain thought leadership? The more I get into supply chain, the better it gets!

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. We now reach 23,000 supply chain leaders globally with our newsletter and have over 50,000 views/month on Slideshare. The open content research model is working. Figure 1: Driving Open Content Research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

I was moving from a position where I led a manufacturing operation to being a part of a team to design supply chain software to improve planning decisions. I was moving from the world of manufacturing to a new world of software. The technology world moves at a quicker pace than the world of manufacturing and distribution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck. 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. Market volatility is increasing and supply chains can respond, but they cannot sense.

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