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Apr 06, 2024 Disrupting the Status Quo by Floating into Mass Market Today, you can either be disrupted. Or be the...
What Is Preventing Visibility in Multi-Tier Supply Chains? Aug 29, 2022 Arecent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking. With so many... Read More
What Is the Multi-Multi Problem Costing Your Business? Jul 1, 2022 In my last post on modernizing versus digitally transforming, I mentioned a phenomenon some of us are calling the “multi-multi” problem.... Read More
Modernizing Is Not Digitally Transforming. Are You on the Right Path? Mar 28, 2022 Irecently had the privilege of attending a program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management about Organizational Design for Digital Transformation. My... Read More
“Big Businesses Do Business With Big Businesses” – And Why My Experiences Taught Me Otherwise Oct 18, 2021 As a young division director in a large company, the notion that “big businesses do business with big businesses” was drilled into my head. It was... Read More
Going Beyond OTIF – Redefining the Notion of the “Perfect Order” Sep 13, 2021 While on a due-diligence trip through North China to evaluate a company my organization was thinking of acquiring, I was impressed by their... Read More
It’s 11 PM -Do You Know Where Your Shipments Are May 28, 2021 The title paraphrases a common nighttime message from my youth. Just before signing off, television stations would ask their viewers: It’s 11pm…Do... Read More
The Need for Speed: Don’t Let These Beliefs Slow Down Your Supply Chain Apr 19, 2021 You can try and blame the need for speed on Amazon, with two-day delivery becoming one day and even same day in some instances. But all they’re... Read More
The Omnichannel Alphabet Soup: Structuring the Unstructured Feb 22, 2021 At the start of my career, most brands and OEMs used a traditional two-tier distribution process through wholesalers and retailers to sell their... Read More
What Exactly Is a Digital Transformation – And Are You Doing It Right? Jan 18, 2021 For some time, I’ve been reading, watching and following the white papers, case studies, and countless webinars put on by keen minds about digital... Read More
The Seamless Shift to a Customer-Centric Supply Chain Sep 4, 2020 In our first installment on the value of customer loyalty, we discussed the numbers surrounding trust and customer retention. Indeed, in these... Read More
This Is Not a Storm to Weather Jun 15, 2020 While most business cycles ebb and flow, two or three times in a generation we encounter an earth-shattering change that fundamentally reshapes the... Read More
The Hard Economics of Justifying a Supply Chain Digital Transformation May 4, 2020 There have been countless times throughout my career where I was either a recommender or approver of significant IT projects. And, I must say, I... Read More