Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions. The digital supply chain transformation is just beginning.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

Companies asked for integrated supply chain planning. As a leader of a global supply chain organization, her goal was simple. She was trying to define and drive supply chain excellence. Her focus was on technology implementation. In short, she believed that she needed integrated planning.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

One of the best quotes I heard this year came from a young professional commenting on why she chose a career in supply chain management: “I wanted to work in a field where I knew I wouldn’t live the same day twice.”. Every day in supply chain management brings new challenges and opportunities. Source: Quintiq.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

Last January, I shared 5 New Year’s Resolutions for supply chain and logistics executives to improve as leaders. As I wrote last year: According to leadership expert Ken Blanchard, “when you stop learning, you stop leading,” and this is especially true in supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Supply chain leaders are competitive. The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Now in 2018, we are starting to see the evolution of “Gods” with new business models that are redefining supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Is it time to start to plan the new year? At this time of year, we find many companies planning workshops to stimulate thinking on building a digital supply chain and igniting next-generation supply chain thinking. We are offering three types of benchmarking: planning, financial and organizational.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

The market has dried up for large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and the large consultants are in the market staking their claim for their next gig. We are at a software and consulting junction point. The large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation market is coming to a close. Confusion reigns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m rearranging my schedule as stranded friends cancel personal plans. The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. ” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

” While the last decade was all about marketing and commercial processes, with the digital pivot, the supply chain matters now more than ever. The need is a supply chain that is more proactive, agile and flexible. Supply chains respond. Figure 1: Supply Chain Descriptors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2018

Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. Here I want to use the analogy of the freeing a caged bird to help you think hard about the “Art of the Possible” in planning. My passion is helping supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. The company overall plans to move into 50 markets and more than 30 million households by the end of 2017. and Philadelphia metro areas. Clean eating is changing how we shop. Target Corp.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. Labor is an important input with 50-60% of employees of the company reporting through supply chain organizations. Supply chain processes are relatively new. What defines supply chain excellence?

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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. Like an artifact, I have kicked around in the supply chain space since the 1980s.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

I walked into the event early before my speaking slot and sat down to listen to the CFO of Samsung Europe wrap-up his speech about his supply chain. After his presentation, there was a facilitated networking session on the role of the CFO in supply chain. Supply chain capabilities disappoint.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

(The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. It was a long week talking to clients about integrated planning. Most of the Integrated Supply Chain Planning Projects Generate Rubbish. Most companies ask the wrong questions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. In traditional supply chain planning implementations, I count at least a dozen engines churning to improve outcomes.

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