All Things Supply Chain

MAY 9, 2016

Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure of stepping into the virtual commissioning world.

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Supply Chain Trend

MAY 8, 2016

Your company has a strategy. Are you confident it is ready to be deployed and executed? Most likely not, as 60%-90% of strategy implementations fail and only 14% of executives are satisfied with the execution of a strategy. This post introduces a framework to assess your company’s strategy execution readiness, in order to align leaders around how to bridge your strategy to execution gaps.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 13, 2016

The world is anticipating a revolution in the shopping/consumer experience as the technology seems nearly ready for widespread drone delivery of online purchases. Oddly, none of the traditional parcel delivery companies are rushing to bolt propellers and wings to their panel vans. There simply isn’t much demand for three ton, flying mail trucks. Similarly, when it comes to TMS solutions, there are still many organizations (either willingly or unwittingly) comfortable with an equally absurd pr

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The Network Effect

MAY 13, 2016

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards is an annual award that recognizes companies for superior leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. The awards are conferred upon companies around the world and across a diverse range of industries. Frost & Sullivan presents the awards “to companies that are predicted to encourage significant growth […].

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Advertiser: GEP

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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