... leaves general management a bit cold. Let’s make a deal During a conversation I had this week, just the typical megatrend emerged that is pulling S&OP away from its process-centric roots. The company I was discussing with is a hi-tech manufacturer whose planning processes are well established, but for ...
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... dismiss it. Last week, I attended an event with several high-tech supply chain executives and the topic came up. The conventional wisdom in the room was that the BRT announcement was window dressing versus the dawn of a new era for business. But there was also a little voice in my head that said, “Maybe this ...
... about developing broad-based leaders who can foster innovation while taming complexity. Rising stars need to know they can get to the C-suite one day. Maybe a stint in product development is what they need. Please contact me directly with any comments, questions or suggestions. I welcome your feedback. Kevin ...
... Supply Chain Leaders Adapt and Thrive By Stan Aronow | October 15, 2021 I recently had the privilege of moderating a virtual Leaders in Action (LIA) event on the theme of customer-driven business transformation, co-hosted by Lowe’s EVP Supply Chain, Don Frieson. A wide-ranging group of COOs and CSCOs ...
... most take no more than one year. Men also increasingly play the stay-at-home parent role. In fact, our group was asked how many had husbands who had yielded to wives’ careers to enable upward progression. I counted at least 12 hands among the 40+ women in the audience. Advocacy – Senior leaders can help ...
... also help with detailed monitoring of equipment, buildings and fixtures, or even wearables and implanted devices. On the supply-sensing side, IoT, GPS and cloud computing platforms offer new ways to know what is happening upstream. As with demand sensing, the role of advanced analytics is critical if supply ...
... not knowing where you’re going. Eager as they were to make money and blessed with knowledge gained by others, the Dutch “did their homework and were well prepared when they set sail.” In the process they became “world leaders in cartography.” In today’s terms, what the Dutch invented was essentially supply ...
... under the bus by Amazon before, are not likely to embrace partnership with a customer that is actively undercutting their core business. Bezos plays seven years in the future So, is Amazon being stupid? Not at all. Bezos freely admits that he’d rather play the long game than compete in the now, or even in ...
... transparency with an exploding communications infrastructure provided mostly via mobile phones and internet connectivity (see chart). A billion new consumers, most of whom lack almost everything we in the north now take for granted, can suddenly see and buy from the same catalogues that we do. Now, if ...