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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Typically, it is a lack of common definition on what defines supply chain excellence.

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Are You Feeding the Beast? Or Driving Progress in Your Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

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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How Do I Know If I Am Ready?

Supply Chain Shaman

” A Demand Planner for a Large Multinational Pharmaceutical Company. I rescheduled my Monday to meet with a client on a pressing deadline and worked through the night to edit and refine the reports/journals for last week’s newsletter. This is a networking group that meets by phone once a month.

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Solving the Emerging Market Packaging Puzzle

MIT Supply Chain

Picture, for example, a pallet loaded with pharmaceutical product. For example, in order to meet the demands of small stores, the enterprise has to repack boxes of product with too few inner packs. This article is published in the spring 2014 issue of Supply Chain Frontiers. Subscribe to the newsletter for free here.

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Gaining Clarity on Inventory Effectiveness

Supply Chain Shaman

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. The tension I felt reading the brochure on the plane is what I believe every supply chain leader feels every day. Supply chain processes are now over 30-years old.

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The Top Logistics and Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders to Know for 2020

Shipchain

Knowledge is power in the world of supply chain management, and every company is searching for the next best way to save money and meet consumer demand. That’s why we’ve created this list of the top logistics and supply chain journalists and thought leaders that we follow and suggest you check out in 2020. .