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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales. Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

Cardinal Health’s senior vice president of global logistics, said of their implementation of the Kinaxis’ supply chain planning (SCP) solution, “I was scared! Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions.

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The Business Case For a Modern Warehouse Management System

GlobalTranz

The Reward: Top Benefits of Modern Systems Are Key to Business Survival When it comes time to garnering support to investing in a modern warehouse management system, supply chain executives should focus on the key benefits that will be provided by the system.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

of revenue on supply chain applications, the promise of an agile, flexible supply chain that can respond as the business changes seems like an illusion. This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives

Talking Logistics

Natural disasters like the Japan earthquake, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. The same is true for CEOs.

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Do You Want Real-time Visibility? IT is the Enemy

Logistics Viewpoints

Here “near real-time” is defined as a refresh of key metrics every five minutes. In fact, part of Mr. Wakefield’s presentation involved coaching prospective customers on the arguments that can be made to IT. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations.

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Sage Advice? Only for Turkeys.

Supply Chain Shaman

.” Or twisting the arm of the COO to use an Enterprise Resource Planning system to build the “right house of best practice ” to drive supply chain excellence. I shake my head at most of the presentation materials that I see strategic consultants present on supply chain best practices.

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