Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.
The answer to a simple question of why do consumer...
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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors
In a recent research project, we found that 2/3 of...
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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.
When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often...
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Four Strategies That Worked
An analysis of four strategies that worked over the last...
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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain
Architectural shifts to take advantage of more advanced optimization in...
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The Saga of Supply Chain Innovation
This November is a layoff season. As pink slips ripple...
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In Search of Shiny Objects
Investments come in waves. In my lifetime, I watched business...
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Making Time Real
While companies ask for planning solutions that are real-time, should...
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No Time Like the Present
In the face of disruption-after-disruption, now is the time to...
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The Courage to Jump
Only 1/3 of companies feel that they are doing well...
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When the Rubber Hits the Road
Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging.“ Wikipedia The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months...
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Avoiding Dead-end Streets As We Build the Future of Supply Chain Planning
Disruption after disruption is the current state of today's supply...
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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink
Thirty-one months of supply chain disruption. Currently, companies struggle with...
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Navigating The River of Demand
At the end of a long day of a strategy...
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The Big Sigh
A blog post outlining the mistakes companies make in the...
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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data
I remember the evening well. A requirement to apply as...
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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners
The Supply Chains to Admire Analysis, now in its 9th...
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Adapting in the Face of Change
Supply chain resilience is “the capacity of a supply chain...
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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button
Over the last three years, these three fundamental assumptions unraveled:...
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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip
As my arms stretch forward to pull for the next...
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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!
What is the role of planning? The goal should be...
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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain....
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Courage to Paint Outside the Lines
As a child, I never painted within the lines. Always...
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The Risk of Venture Capital Takeover of Supply Chain Software Providers–Anaplan A New Victim
Venture capital investment in the software market poses risk for...
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When Variability Is Our Only Constant
For the past three weeks, I attempted to move my...
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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP
I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning...
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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make
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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking
My quest to build holistic thinking in organizations stretches over...
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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change
As I rolled holiday cookies in my hands, I watched...
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Side-stepping the Pitfalls of a Digital Strategy for 2022
It is that time of year. Yes, a time when...
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Lora Cecere is the Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights , the research firm that’s paving new directions in building thought-leading supply chain research. She is also the author of the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman. The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence. Her book, Bricks Matter, published in December of 2012.
As an enterprise strategist, Lora focuses on the changing face of enterprise technologies. Her research is designed for the early adopter seeking first mover advantage. Current research topics include the digital consumer, supply chain sensing, demand shaping and revenue management, market-driven value networks, accelerating innovation through open design networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, emerging business intelligence solutions, and technologies to improve safe and secure product delivery.
She comes to the stage with over thirty years of diverse supply chain experience. She spent nine years as an industry analyst with Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and is now the founder of her own firm Supply Chain Insights. Prior to becoming a supply chain analyst she spent fifteen years as a leader in the building of supply chain software at Manugistics and Descartes Systems Group, and twenty years as a supply chain practitioner at Procter & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, Clorox, and Dreyers Grand Ice Cream (now a division of Nestle).
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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.
The answer to a simple question of why do consumer products manufacturers not use retail data in the management of the supply chain?
Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors
In a recent research project, we found that 2/3 of companies had a digital supply chain transformation strategy; however, those that were evolving their strategy
Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.
When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often see statements like “move from a functional-silo’d focus to a drive a more holistic response.”
Great to see the thought leadership by OMP to work with their customers to see how new forms of analytics can adapt to drive insights from outside-in planning processes
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@SenWarren Sorry Senator Warren, this is just wrong.Why did Congress do nothing on ocean freight reform allowing ocean carriers to make billions in profits which fueled inflation? Why is Congress not more active in being part of the supply chain solution versus aiding and abating issues
Read More@cmroberson06 @JOC_Updates Lack of clear reasonable goals. They fell in love with a technology. My POV
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