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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Managing the effectiveness and value of the supply chain has become a top priority. Supply chain management focuses on aligning people, processes, information, and technology to a common set of goals and objectives across the supply chain of products and services to meet the needs of all industries, companies will drive increased profitability and efficiency.
This topic covers how all businesses can all benefit from improving their supply chain processes.
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What's in a name?more

Procurement has come a long way in the past 20 years, but the journey is far from complete. As it heads down the path...

The social supply chain: demand side and supply side considerations.more

As you may remember, Kinaxis participated in a webcast last month called: "Thought Leader Power Hour: The...

Four reasons to stop looking to your ERP vendor to solve all your supp...more

I noted an article from IndustryWeek several weeks ago that identified a growing problem with corporate ERP systems; ...

Time to give SMEs a chance?more

A discussion on David Cameron's recent promise to increase the government’s network of suppliers from the SME community.

What Smart Companies Should Learn from Apple’s Supply Chain Woesmore

With growing public concern over worker suicides and injuries at Apple suppliers over the last two years, a new...

Another couple of software deployment lessons learned…the ballooning w...more

My colleague, Duncan Klett, recently wrote the blog titled "Six lessons learned from six failed software...

Visibility is a start. Collaboration is the goal.more

I've got another session presentation coming up that I'd thought I share. Kinaxis will be participating at the Extended...

The top ten ways bad software is like an annoying exmore

If you've never experienced bad software or a bad relationship, I'd like to shake your hand to see if some of your good...

Is Forecasting Fatally Flawed?more

Believe it or not, I didn't plan the alliteration. But that is my central point: So much of actual demand is unplanned.

Disaster recovery - dealing with the unknown.more

Each day since the disaster in Japan, I wake up to more bad news. It is heart wrenching to continually read and watch...

IT is Everybody’s Businessmore

In May 2003, Harvard Business Review printed “IT Doesn’t Matter” by Nicholas G. Carr. It was wrong then and it is wrong...

Executive S&OP and operational S&OP- Should the data be the sa...more

Here is part three of an interview I had with P.J. Jakovljevic from Technology Evaluations Centers (TEC) on sales and...

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster ho...more

Here is part two of an interview I had with P.J. Jakovljevic from Technology Evaluations Centers (TEC) on sales and...

Innovation at P&G: Advantage through Process Focusmore

P&G’s ex-CEO, Lafley, believes that “The heart of a company’s business model should be game-changing innovation”.

The Landscape for Sourcing in China and Other Countries is Once Again ...more

A recent BusinessWeek article noted the rising pressures of inflation across China and how that is motivating some...

Understanding Advantage?more

In several of my articles on supply chain strategy, I have emphasized that capabilities are the origin of all...

Exploring the potential of the social supply chainmore

Just a quick post today to let you know that Kinaxis is sponsoring the upcoming RaptureWorld-produced webinar:...

Dilbert explains the value of S&OP.more

Well, not actually.  But this Dilbert cartoon, despite referring to the budgeting process, definitely brings out the...

ERP Failures: Myth or Mythunderstood?more

Last Monday, Jim Shepherd of Gartner wrote a First Things Monday article titled "The Puzzling Myth of ERP...

Supply Chain Innovations Add to GDP Growthmore

While this articles from McKinsey is about the relationship between productivity and jobs growth, one of the graphics...

What is Your Strategy Doing for You?more

Around half the executives believed that their strategies simply were directed at matching industry best practices...

Cost as the Dominant Business Strategymore

Reducing costs as a strategy has become a primary strategy for many businesses in recent years. I believe that this...

Apple’s Secret Sauce Should Be No Surprise to the Supply Chain Communi...more

Taking a Pulse of Wal-Mart’s Suppliersmore

Wal-Mart’s promise of “always low prices, always” is partly based on the volume of its business with its vendors and...

Inventory management - What are the best practices?more

My colleague Max Jeffrey recently posted a blog titled "Should Safety Stock be added to forecasted FG...

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