Amazon Shipping Items Before you Order it: Creepy or Savvy?
Amazon Shipping of Supply Chain After delivery drones, Amazon has created yet another news sensation! This time with predictive shipping and patenting it. In this article, Cathy Morrow Robertson describes Amazon’s latest leap: “Based on previous orders, product searches, wish lists, shopping cart contents and other online customer experiences, Amazon has received a patent for what it […]
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW
Supply Chain 3.0 Is Real When I explain to people that supply chain 3.0 is real, in general, I get three type of responses. Most of the McKinsey (or their clone) trained strategists ask me to show data to back up this assertion. On the other hand, more intuitive executives (mainly from sales and marketing […]
The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results
Rare Art Supply Chain I was in a meeting with one of my clients who was one of the top 3 executives in a large company, and he was telling me his experience from a recent corporate retreat, where 24 of their top managers had gone in for a strategic planning session for three days […]
How To Find a Supply Chain Job
Supply Chain Job This blog post is relatively small and simple. Yet, as you will see, it is of immense use to anyone in today’s world. I do not want to make it any more complicated than necessary. My friend Tony has a recession proof career. No matter what happens to the economy, or to […]
Supply Chain Excellence – Go Good to Great in Supply Chain – Vivek Sood
Great in Supply Chain Management It is only natural that many companies today want to go from good to great in Supply Chain Excellence. It takes a lot of effort to go from good to great in any field of endeavour. It takes even more discipline and technique, than the effort. But, there is another […]
Five Supply Chain Key Cornerstones of The 5-STAR Business Network
There are five Supply Chain key Cornerstones of success in building and harnessing effective global business networks So what are these 5 key cornerstones of the super networked businesses that lead to these networks being called the 5-STAR Business Networks? This Is Why This Year Will Be The Year Of Business. As an aid to […]
Understanding and Using Resistance – in Business Transformations Using SCM 3.0
19 years ago, when studying for MBA, our Professor in Change Management, Dexter Dunphy told us that Change Management is nothing but management of downside. How Much Do You Know about Understanding And Using Resistance? I understood that his point was every change has a downside – and as a change manager, the most important […]
How Organizational Silos Can Ruin Your 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 in quality and much cheaper […]
What is required For Business Transformation Network ?
What is Required For Business Transformation Network? BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION NETWORK Global shipping is a very cut-throat business where you can make a lot of money just by buying and selling ships at the right time. So ships in operation are sold quite regularly. When I was in shipping – there were two kind of buyers […]
What you Do With the data is important than what you got
What you do with the data is more important than what data you got but First let me start with a story. I have some personal experience in 1990 with this ancient mariners’ rhyme: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere: Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as […]
