Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip
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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!
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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You
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Courage to Paint Outside the Lines
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The Risk of Venture Capital Takeover of Supply Chain Software Providers–Anaplan A New Victim
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When Variability Is Our Only Constant
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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP
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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
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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change
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Side-stepping the Pitfalls of a Digital Strategy for 2022
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Changing Winds in Supply Chain
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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost
Today, we are nearing the end of the fourth quarter...
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The Big Supply Chain Analytics Failure
Current supply chains struggle with analytics, here we answer why.
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Give Analytics A Chance
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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them
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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.
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Lifting The Gray Curtain
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When The Wheels Fall Off
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Building A Guiding Coalition for Change
Gates’ Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what...
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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results
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We Are In Trouble. Raise the Red Flag. Be Proactive.
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Good-bye. I Will Go Forward by Going Forward.
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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence
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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning
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My Response to SAP. Bigger, But Not The Answer We Need
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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen
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Now and Then. Stuck in the Now.
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Roar Baby Roar
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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?
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Supply Chain Insights Global Summit
September 6-8, 2022
The Westin Washington Dulles Airport
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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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip
As my arms stretch forward to pull for the next lap in the summer heat, three thoughts circulate in my head. (I often write my
When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!
What is the role of planning? The goal should be organizational alignment to potential issues and outcomes.
Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain
