Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging.“ Wikipedia The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. Navigating through the turmoil is
Disruption after disruption is the current state of today’s supply chain. As we build better solutions for planning, we need to avoid dead-end streets.
I remember the evening well. A requirement to apply as an analyst position for AMR Research was to write an opinion piece and defend the
Over the last three years, these three fundamental assumptions unraveled: they are no longer valid. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain.
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
As a child, I never painted within the lines. Always as a non-conformist, I pushed the edges and challenged boundaries. I discovered, as an adult,
For the past three weeks, I attempted to move my fingers on the keyboard, but to no avail. With the mounting devastation in Ukraine, my
I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was
It is that time of year. Yes, a time when well-meaning supply chain leaders share their strategy decks for the upcoming year and ask me
In the past two weeks, I completed many interviews. The question is the same. “When will the impact of the pandemic on the supply chain
