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Sense & Respond

Let's Talk Supply Chain

In 2005 I came across a book, Sense & Respond (The Journey to Customer Purpose) Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations. However, while any company with a supply chain across virtually any industry can use supply chain control-tower-type capabilities, the term “control tower” still means many different things to many people.

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348: How COVID Changed Last Mile Delivery Forever, with SEKO

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Today I’m joined by SEKO – a friend of the show and a supply chain household name that was founded nearly 50 years ago, and has gone on to open 120 offices in 40 countries across the world. SEKO provide complete supply chain solutions, specializing in transportation, logistics, forwarding and warehousing.

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JAGGAER Webinar with Accenture Strategy and Attijariwafa Bank Case Study: Accelerating Trust in Banking – Internal, Suppliers and Customers

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Spend management and procurement will play a key role in enabling banks to achieve their efficiency targets while managing supply chain risks,” he added. In our poll, webinar participants saw business partnering, supplier innovation and collaboration, and supply chain risk management as their key areas of focus for procurement.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. He is the author of the blog Supply Chain Trend and the self excellence guide Building Mental Toughness.

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How to Plan with a Company’s Vision in Mind

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These aspirations can be accompanied by vivid future planning descriptions like: ‘our plans will provide visibility to anticipate issues before they eventuate’. ‘we In this phase there is functional planning with the aim to improve visibility, business performance and execution. 80% of our new product developments will be successful’.