... February 21, 2025 Recently, I joined a roundtable discussion with a group of supply chain executives from larger, more advanced companies on the topic of strategies for navigating the current landscape of tariff and trade uncertainties. The discussion emphasized supply chain’s critical role as a "safe harbor ...
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... extensive operations in mainland China and to tap the faster growth in emerging Asian markets.” Coming on the heels of my column last week, in which I argued that China is ready to buy millions of industrial robots, this news completes the picture of where manufacturing footprints are headed for all of us. ...
... which shows what everyone else in your organisation is looking at, is that you’ll learn more by not only seeing but also by discussing real-world examples with real people. One thing I personally love about this discipline is that most of you totally understand what happens when a customer tugs on the ...
... declare victory with deals closed at the 11th hour only to give away margin on cost-to-serve. Service reps fall all over themselves “delighting” customers and in the process run up massive working capital bills with bulging spare parts inventory. Design engineers crave patents and critical acclaim, but ...
... competitive edge if it adopts a framework that mutually augments human and machine intelligence. When humans teach, machines can learn. When machines recommend, humans can supervise. When humans react, machines can refine. When machines falter, humans can take over. All with the goal of improving collective decision ...
... Pony Express that was designed and maintained centrally. It was fed by a diverse set of legacy communication systems meant for shorter distances including torches, flags, smoke and whistling arrows.For supply chain leaders the modern must-have equivalent is something like an SAP backbone with solid master ...
... about how to approach this critical ongoing effort. Among the key golden rules are to develop and maintain: documented and formalised processes around supply and demand planning; meaningful metrics that approximate profit impacts of trade-off decisions; cost-to-serve models that can help to quantify the ...
... steadily gaining in price/performance terms. What all this means for supply chain leaders is that network design philosophies must change. First, it means purchasing energy with a risk-adjusted portfolio approach that recognizes long-term trends in costs. Normal commodity management strategies are a ...
... quarter since 2006. One PepsiCo food plant in Colombia for instance reuses 75% of water entering the facility. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) takes this still farther with 90% reuse of water in its operations, having spotted drought as a business continuity threat over a decade ago. Be prepared Supply chain ...