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Orchestrating a supply chain management transformation

Every day, thousands of companies perform magic. Millions of parts from thousands of suppliers are manufactured and transported to the right place at the right time, with the correct documentation and with financial transactions to customers in hundreds of different currencies. As a supply chain leader with more than 25 years of experience, I still […]

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Viewpoint: Supply Chain Planning in a New Era of Trade

A period of increasingly free and open world trade that has characterized the past decades appears to be ending, replaced by a new and more challenging era of international commerce. This will pose a significant challenge to most product companies with international operations. Even as they have honed their ability to balance supply and demand, […]

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Businesses Seek to Take Supply Chain Integration to the Next Level

In the era of digital business, a company is only as good as its supply chain. On the journey from raw materials to finished product, the ability to integrate external information flows from partners and suppliers with internal business systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and inventory management can be transformative. Companies that have […]

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5 Forces Impacting Supply Chains in Europe in 2021

Perspectives from professionals managing unprecedented turbulence on global scale Focusing on key challenges and opportunities around supply chain operations in Europe in 2021, this paper builds on and summarizes the perspectives and experiences shared during a digital roundtable discussion that was organized by VF Media Limited and sponsored and moderated by OpenText on February 24th, […]

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The Need For Concurrent Planning – Why Business As Usual Doesn’t Work Anymore

The nature of managing a business on a global scale is undergoing fundamental change, driven by the expectations of the consumer, and it’s up to the world’s supply chains to keep up. The slow, siloed, sequential planning techniques of the past are no match for today’s fast-paced reality. That’s why it’s time to rethink supply […]

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Supply Chain Control Towers at 5,000 feet

Early in my career, I spent some time consulting for a very large laptop company. As with any consulting engagement, the client would lay out the problem and then proceed to explain what data points were available to expose and remedy the issue. From there, we would craft a solution that helped to provide all […]

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Transform S&OP Into an Engine for Growth

Though sales and operations planning (S&OP) originally aspired to bring business functions together for a more collaborative approach to business planning, today’s S&OP is most often used to address gaps between supply and demand. It can and should do much more. Increasing disruption in the business environment has created an urgent opportunity for S&OP to […]

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Demand Planning – The Future is Like the Past… Just Completely Different

Here below I have summarized a few thoughts and a summary of my experiences with data coming from an interesting Digital Round Table discussion that I participated in with 15 other senior Supply Chain professionals. The Round Table was organized by Leon Wheatle from VF Media Limited, a meeting that I was honored to host. […]

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Autonomous, smarter supply chains at the nexus of IoT, AI, and blockchain

Executive Summary The Evolving Supply Chain Introducing the Autonomous Supply Chain Illustrative Use Case Examples Benefits and Risks Conclusions Supply chains are evolving into more network-like, collaborative ecosystems – with implications for all the parties involved; and opportunities to leverage new technologies to augment traditional supply chain management practices. In this paper we look at […]

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