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2020 Planning Requires Big Wings and Feet
It has been awhile. After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain...
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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team
Remember the Peter, Paul and Mary song, Puff the Magic Dragon? It was a song from my youth. While there is a raging debate on song intent—Was the goal of the song to celebrate a children’s story from...
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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders
The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. While prior risk management disruptions occurred and quickly established a new normal, in the COVID-19 pandemic, the only normal is constant...
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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?
When a person suddenly hits or jams their toe, it hurts. It is one of those howling, bent over, moments of pain. A stubbed toe is often accompanied by words that you hope your children don’t hear....
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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning
” Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater “ is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error where something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad, or in other words,...
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Dancing in the Ring of Fire
This week, I spoke to John. As a supply chain leader, he is struggling how to dance in the ring of fire. You may also be facing the same issue. Let me explain. What Is The Ring of Fire? The ring of...
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Battered by Fierce Winds. Will E2open Survive?
Rodanthe is one of my favorite beaches. During the summers, when I lived in Atlanta, I would pack my bikes on top of the car and head to this wonderful, and what was then a remote beach, on the Outer...
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Definitions Matter
In my writing, I try to get clear on definitions. The supply chain space is heavily laden with acronyms, gobbledygook, false narratives, and over-hyped, fast-talking technology sales teams. Let’s take...
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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?
Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. This follows the recent...
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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System
This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. The report was scheduled to publish in the summer of 2023, but life got in the way. The full report publishes this week. I laugh that writing...
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