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What’s Important in Technology?
Technology is an integral part of managing your business and supply chain. Are you leveraging technology to improve your business performance? It is quite telling that every executive panelist on the "Professional Pathways in Supply Chain" panel at the Drucker Supply Chain Forum (Walt Disney Company, Source Intelligence, Intelligent [...]
Forget Data Cleanup and Find a Measure to Start NOW!
Are you mired in data cleanup and not focused on measures that can immediately help you? Stop searching for the “right” data lever and look for measures to track and improve processes. If you have the systems to measure your ideal metric, go for it but don't let it [...]
Strategic Data
Recently returning from APICS 2016, the conference for the #1 trade association of global supply chain professionals, we've walked away thinking about data as strategic. SAP's CEO Bill McDermott spoke about the value of data in his keynote presentation. Of course, you wouldn't be surprised that SAP's CEO would [...]
Data, Data, Data
Many manufacturers and distributors focus on collecting data rather than using it to analyze performance and achieve business results. "Data, data data" seems to be the hot topic for manufacturers and distributors, similarly to "location, location, location" in real estate success. What is going on? As technologies have come [...]
The Power of BI (Business Intelligence)
March 15, 2016 In today's Amazon-impacted world, if you cannot make rapid yet effective decisions, you'll be left in the dust. It is no longer acceptable to wait for IT to write a report in order to make a decision. Executives must have the "right" information at their fingertips [...]
Data Migration
Data migration may seem like a mundane and even daunting task, but the ability to leverage your system to get information to make better decisions will have a profound effect on your business. I've been involved in a few projects lately where data migration has been the hot topic. [...]
The Power of Databases
July 24, 2015 I've been working with a client recently on a SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) program. We are gaining access to powerful information that will help them hire at the "right" time (not too early - and, more importantly, not too late when considering growth & [...]