... processes, but also value-added sales support to develop new applications. In food it means genetically modified seeds, but also packaging and artwork to tell the story to shoppers. On the one hand this movement is an epic challenge for supply chain professionals, since it means nearly infinite SKU counts ...
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... This may be because food & beverage companies feel the pinch of a fraying ecosystem upstream in agriculture, and also downstream with consumers tilting away from industrial-era “big food”. The unique challenge is to articulate the earth impact of product sold to consumers who increasingly believe their ...
... underpinning advances in analytics, robotics and compute power. The challenge for senior supply chain executives is cranking up the speed at which people learn how to apply these exponentially advancing technologies. Just as important is how well they can communicate and influence to manage change in the ...
... efficiency, exploitation of digital technologies and application of analytical methods to find better answers. Most important, however, is what the authors call “a passion to connect the end-to-end supply chain”. This harkens back to the original “value chain” concept underlying AMR’s first version of ...
... about how to learn supply chain than any course or case study I’ve ever seen. Nike uses data analytics, yes, but also judgment, creative problem solving and, maybe most importantly, an iterative process of refinement that is the essence of learning in action. The same principle applies to other supply ...
... prohibiting activities that may be messy but still economically wise, like running furnaces to make glass. The US-China carbon deal could give supply chain professionals what they crave: an objective function to optimise. Planners, start your engines! ...
... Officer Survey found that supply chain professionals pretty much dismiss sharing economy technologies, with less than 1:10 calling them “disruptive and important”. Hoteliers and cabbies might disagree, but from a supply chain strategy standpoint Uber doesn’t appear to mean much. Sharing economy and asset ...
... manage supply chain. Maybe they are just better at it than men. Gender Equality? Back in 2013, SCM World ran a simple survey of supply chain professionals asking about the relevance of gender at work. The results showed decisive agreement with the proposition that men and women do have fundamentally different ...
... manufacturing professionals ever experience. Stuck as they are between the rock of investor expectations and the hard place of penny-pinching consumers, airlines have discovered a free resource to buffer their operations: our time. Travellers’ time is the unmeasured inventory insurance airlines use to keep things ...