How Good is Your Supply Chain Optimization?
System demos are tedious things at best. The developers are trying to showcase the best aspects of their baby in best possible light. About More Supply Chain Optimization They have spent months, sometimes years, thinking about and developing functionality. It is really a big ask to show off the usefulness of it all, in half […]
Uses and Misuses of Benchmarks in Supply Chain Management
Benchmarks in Supply Chain Management There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Benchmarks are a peculiarly virulent form of statistics which can be used to make a positive change, or misused to make a dodgy sale. On one hand a benchmark, such as a world record in 100m race, can motivate an athlete […]
Successful Business Networking
Extract from the book “The 5-Star Business Network”, written by Vivek Sood Why Business Networks Are Important? Learn How To Make More Money With Business Networking. There was a time, not more than a few decades ago, if you were General Motors you would attempt to own every part of your business. The assembly lines, the […]
How Organizational Silos Can Ruin Your Supply Chain
Organizational Silos in Supply Chain Organizational silos are based on the division of labor, on organizing the labor in such a way that each individual specialized in what he/she knows best, so that it can all be integrated in such a manner that a cohesive whole which is created in the result is much better […]
My Experience With Freight Cost Reduction Using Supply Chain Software
Freight Cost Reduction Using Supply Chain One of the reasons I invest so much time and resources of our company in keeping current with the information technology is that good supply chain depends almost entirely on good information. And, your information is only as good as the technology deployed to collect, collate, store, parse and […]
What Causes Supply Chain Confusion
About Supply Chain Confusion My last post “Supply Chain Confusion could kill your business“ generated several great comments from highly qualified professionals around the world, and in this post I want to explore the reasons for the confusion. Obviously, the confusion is debilitating, and unprofitable. I am sure readers will have their own experiences with the confusion […]
Optimising What? Why do Business Transformations Fail?
Business Transformations Fail Optimisation has always been a hot topic for strategists and business transformations executives. Now, as the mantle for leading corporations is moving from strategists to the integrationists and supply chain leaders – optimisation is hotter than ever before. When discussing business transformations, in my workshops, presentations and speeches, in particular I enjoy the audience interaction […]
Supply Chain Complacency is a Slow Poison
Supply Chain Complacency is a Slow Poison The sense of entitlement, complacency and the imperial privilege can be observed even today in almost all the nations that once had a great empire – Spain, Portugal, Britain and France. Unfortunately, now the same feeling can be quite frequently seen in the United States, Australia and even […]
Industrial Age Tools vs Information Age Weapons
Information of Supply Chain This is the part 2 of my earlier post What I Learnt Fighting Pirates (Not in the Caribbean)! (that post was getting too long, so I had to break it into two parts). I asked bosun to send a repelling party to cut the ladder and the scrambling rope, while I sent two […]
Who Will ‘Supply Chain Dellify’ the Mobile Phone Industry?
Supply Chain Dellify’ the Mobile Phone Industry Dellify (verb) – the process of changing an industry model from high cost, low flexibility, make-to-stock model to a low cost, high flexibility make-to-order model. Before Michael Dell started his business from the college dorm, computer industry followed a very different model. It was been nearly 30 years, […]
