The Impact of Supply Chain Strategy
Effective supply chain strategic planning secures a competitive edge, ensuring efficiency, adaptability, and market leadership.
Southern California Supply Chain Summit Touts Impressive Facts
Explore key takeaways from the Southern California Supply Chain Summit on industry innovation and efficiency.
Interest in Global Rises
In order to thrive in today’s business climate, executives have no choice but to get a global perspective. Leaders must find a way to stay on top of the trends, likely impacts and opportunities out there. Since we are a more inter-connected world that ever before, the interest in [...]
What is Hot in Supply Chain?
Changes in supply chain strategy and operations cannot be overlooked and we need to stay aware and forward-looking to remain competitive. It has been a week of supply chain immersion. We were knee deep in supply chain trends at MCIE's manufacturers' summit, the Supply Chain Summit and the APICS-IE [...]
What Supply Chains and Liberal Arts Have in Common…
I have been interviewing some VERY impressive candidates for internship positions from Pomona college (which was ranked #1 by Forbes for America's top colleges in 2015). I enjoyed the interviews and learned a lot from them. This is one of the advantages of my profession - continuous learning is [...]
Leveraging Supply Chain Trends
Slashing lead times is one of the most pressing supply chain trends. By identifying trends early on you can devise ways to leverage them to your advantage. I spoke to ISM (the Institute for Supply Management) last night about supply chain trends, and it reminded me of the importance [...]
Is Your Supply Chain Ready for Growth?
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) offers companies a chance to partner with customers to better manage inventory and costs. Once the partnership proves fruitful, expanded business opportunities occur. I recently participated as a panelist with Michael DeCata, CEO of Lawson Products, for Industrial Distribution magazine's VMI (vendor managed inventory) webinar. [...]
Supply Chain Trends for Success
Keeping up on the latest supply chain trends can be invaluable for your career and your company success. I’ve never believed in “jumping on the latest bandwagon”, just to be in the cool crowd and to have the opportunity to work with the trendy topics. However, [...]
The Power of Amazon
I've been thinking about the power of Amazon since I facilitated an APICS tour of their San Bernardino 1.2 million square feet facility on Friday. It was quite impressive from several viewpoints: 1) warehouse automation. 2) simplicity 3) how they treat their people. 4) the power of continuous improvement. [...]
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
With every business looking for a customer service edge your CRM system should set you apart from your competitors to create customer loyalty. Keeping with the customer theme, I thought a brief discussion on CRM would be in order. In the last 5 years, I've seen the importance of [...]