Do You Have The Courage To Be Honest In Supply Chain Planning?
It’s no wonder that supply chain planning environments are often challenging and chaotic, with demands coming at us from all directions. While customers and sup... Read More...
Supply Chain Management
Blockchain In Supply Chains: The Good & Bad
About a decade ago Satoshi Nakamato released the now famous whitepaper on Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency to date. Since then, it has gone mainstream a... Read More...
5 Supply Chain Habits That Will Destroy Your Business
When it comes to supply chain professionals, most of us like to think we know the best way of doing things. Starting off with the best of intentions, we work un... Read More...
MIT RESEARCH: MACHINE LEARNING KEY TO SUPPLY CHAIN AGILITY IN FASHION INDUSTRY
The fashion industry is undergoing seismic shifts due to omnichannel and social media disruption that make predicting and managing demand more difficult than ev... Read More...
Taming The Bullwhip Effect By Moving Beyond Linear Supply Chains
Have you considered there may be a better way to structure supply chain? I have sure have and it doesn’t look much like the linear Supply Chains of today. Why n... Read More...
How To Become Your Suppliers’ Customer of Choice
Do your suppliers recognize your company as a Customer of Choice? What does this distinction mean and why is it important? A Customer of Choice is one that supp... Read More...
When Customers Don’t Follow Their Own OTIF Rules
You may think that Demand Management in Supply Chain is straightforward. Oh, how wrong you would be! Here in the UK, we have a problem with OTIF (On Time, In Fu... Read More...
How To Build A Strategic Capability in S&OP
There's a huge amount of information on the deployment of S&OP – at the last count there were around 40 million hits on a combined search of S&OP and IB... Read More...
Predictive Analytics: Real Life Use Cases
Since 2011, I’ve been teaching Supply Chain Risk Management at Lehigh University. Developing a new MBA class in Supply Chain Risk for our supply chain MBA stude... Read More...
How To Balance Demand & Supply In Omnichannel
Ecommerce is changing how we see Demand Planning and ushering in new rules and best practices. Traditional businesses that moved into eCommerce must deal with t... Read More...