Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

'Bookend: be positioned at the end or on either side of (something). Oxford Dictionary. Today, I published a new report on supply chain excellence. To prepare the report, I worked with Abby Mayer ( @indexgirl ) to analyze ten years of supply chain financial ratios. We waded through spreadsheet after spreadsheet of data for the last three weeks and contrasted the progress of the high-tech, consumer products, food, pharmaceutical and industrial industries.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

'It has been one year. We founded Supply Chain Insights on February 9th, 2012. One year later, we are an eight person team. Supply Chain Insights is a true bootstrap startup. The team of Mikey, Jill, Constance, Heather, Abby, Naomi, Regina and I have all worked together to deliver a year of firsts. We have laughed, worked hard, celebrated each success and tried to fail forward.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

'Highly effective 3PLs have developed the right habits, culture and processes to deliver excellent service to their clients. Innovation and new technology are obviously important, but when evaluating a 3PL, go with the one that excels at blocking and tackling. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective 3PLs. Habit 1 – Excellent Communication. The best 3PLs do a great job of communicating with their clients and logistics partners.

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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

'In the face of disruptions and volatility, supply chain managers are concerned about resilience, which can be broadly defined as “the ability of a supply chain to cope with change” ( Wieland & Wallenburg, 2013 ). Two recent publications present ways to implement supply chain resilience. First, the Business Continuity Institute has published a report that summarizes the key outcomes of its 4 th Annual Supply Chain Resilience Survey.

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Supply Chains Rock

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

'The vegetables on a typical grocery store shelf in 2013 most likely did not come straight from a family-owned farm. In the olden days this was much more common, but with growing population and product demand, business around the world has changed. The items in grocery stores nowadays have usually taken a very long, interesting and methodical process to reach the eyesight of consumers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

'Tonight, I pour a toast. This is the third birthday of the Supply Chain Shaman. I created this blog three years ago. At the time, I had just left AMR Research. I was scared. I had a broken foot, and I was hobbling around on crutches, and thinking about starting a new chapter of my career. My best friends thought that I was daft. I was happy at AMR and I was sad to leave.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

'“It used to be easy to hire a supply chain planner. Today, the positions are open 9-10 months, and. they are tough to fill. I need to be able to build my own talent, but I just do not have the time. Would you consider helping me?” Supply Chain Vice President. We have heard the cry. This week, we are launching a new program to help companies build and retain mid-management supply chain talent.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

'Below is a list of useful logistics websites. There is also a list of great logistics blogs and supply chain websites. Logistics Websites. Air Cargo World - aircargoworld.com. Air Cargo – How it Works - air-cargo-how-it-works.blogspot.com/. American Shipper – americanshippers.com. Big Truck TV – bigtrucktv.com. Commercial Carrier Journal – ccjdigital.com.

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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

'I spent the last couple of days at North Carolina State University to work on a joint research project with my good friend Robert Handfield. I was very impressed by NC State’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative , an “industry–university partnership dedicated to the development of future supply chain professionals” Robert and two of his colleagues have published an article to describe how this cooperative works: NC State’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative educates i

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

'This was school vacation week and I spent most of it either with cross country skis or ice skates on my feet, which isn’t so bad except for the fact you have to be out in the cold to ski or skate, and I’m allergic to the cold, unlike my kids who would outlast any polar bear in a blizzard. As I take a break to warm up, here’s a look at this week’s news: C.H.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Can young, smart, driven supply chain students and their professors teach us anything about the future of supply chain? Recently I went to the MIT Media Lab Building for an event co-hosted by the local chapter of CSCMP and MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. There were two things going on. The first was a MIT Supply Chain Student Poster Session and Networking Night.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

'Last week, at Supply Chain Insights , as part of our monthly webinar series, I hosted a panel discussion on the current state of the healthcare value network. Hosting this webinar series is one of the favorite parts of my job as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. On this webinar, we shared data that we have collected on financial metrics for the healthcare value network (see figure 1) and we asked a panel of Karen Conway from GHX; Ken Thomas, previously of Eli Lilly, and now the founder of T

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

'Just about every year the RILA Logistics Conference is one of the best Events I attend and pleased to say #RILALogistics 2013 was no exception. Great sessions and excellent networking provided me with many insights and opportunities to take home and build on going forward as direct positive outcomes from the event. As described in my advance post Mission: Maximize Learning in Multichannel & E-Commerce this was the Track focused on and pleased to say that this mission was accomplished.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

'Transportation industry confidence and being new to transportation is almost an oxymoron at first. Two months ago I had gone from being an Assistant Athletic Director/Strength Coach to a sales rep in the transportation world. For those of you who are just starting out in transportation or for those who remember, this industry can be very overwhelming.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

'Tim Cummins, CEO of the International Association of Commercial and Contract Management (IACCM), notes in his blog Commitment Matters that Dreamliner’s battery problems are perhaps due to the lack of procurement competencies that exist in the organization. This is an interesting observation, and as he predicts, hardly marks the end of outsourcing.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

'Schools are closed, the roads are empty, and we’re all just waiting for the blizzard to arrive. It’s a stay-at-home-in-your-pajamas kind of day, my favorite. And the fact that it’s Friday makes it even better. I’m not looking forward to shoveling two feet of snow tomorrow, but there is something undeniably beautiful about seeing the world outside covered in white, and your kids laughing and playing in it, with their red cheeks and noses, shovels and buckets, snowmen and snow forts — winte

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ann Grackin and Bill McBeath of ChainLink Research recently published an article on Caribou Coffee’s supply chain. They spoke with Karen Francois, senior director of strategic sourcing at Caribou, to learn about the coffee retailer’s supply chain challenges and how the company reshaped its processes and turned to technology to help enable its success.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

'The pace of change in the retail industry is unprecedented. So much so, Deloitte’s Alison Paul compared the digital revolution to the Industrial Revolution during her keynote at NRF 2013 in New York City, “The Great Convergence.” This so-called digital revolution is being driven by the rise of consumer technology that is transforming the retail landscape.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

'In preparation for this year’s Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Logistics event in Orlando February 17-20th my first task was to review the program and determine priorities for which sessions to attend. In my mind the most significant challenge facing retail logistics professionals bar none is the rapid rise of multichannel commerce and all associated complexities and surrounding issues.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

On January 31st the annual EcoVadis Client Committee took place in the suggestive location of la Maison de l’Amerique Latine, in Paris. Around 120 attendees, representatives of 53 EcoVadis client companies coming from Europe and United States joined to spend a day dedicated to Sustainable Supply Chain and Procurement topics. Morning session was dedicated to vision and future development of EcoVadis and Sustainability in general.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

'I’ve been speaking to a number of procurement executives lately, leading to some interesting discussions around risk, category management, shared services, and a lot of other high level concepts that are no doubt important. There are also a lot of websites and presentations at conferences around the “next big thing” in procurement.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

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Logility

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ann Grackin and Bill McBeath of ChainLink Research recently published an article on Caribou Coffee’s supply chain. They spoke with Karen Francois, senior director of strategic sourcing at Caribou, to learn about the coffee retailer’s supply chain challenges and how the company reshaped its processes and turned to technology to help enable its success.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

'Transactional shippers ask “Can you save me $50 on our next shipment?” Strategic shippers ask “Can you help us save 10% on our $1.2 million dollar freight spend?”. There are two types of shippers in my world, transactional shippers and strategic shippers. Transactional shippers don’t commit to any one logistics company. They are price driven and will usually quote multiple logistics providers to ensure they get the lowest price.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

'Early in January of 2012 I found myself struggling with the current terms around multi-channel, cross channel and omni-channel to adequately describe the current retail and e-commerce marketplace reality we all face. Searching for a term that would better capture the full complexity and many drivers impacting the business, on January 3rd 2012 in a moment of epiphany I came up with the term and concept of Matrix Commerce on which topic this whitepaper is a primer.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

'Growth of the global logistics network is fraught with increasing difficulty. Large BRIC country governments have recognized their power in the channel, and have raised the stakes for import and export requirements and regulation. There is also considerable debate among experts as to the path this will take. Some believe India will continue to grow, while many point to the many untapped domestic markets in China and Brazil.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2013

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