... least $150 million in taxes annually, but this is small change compared to what a global giant specialising in better building management is worth to customers, shareholders and the planet. Johnson Controls is a great company My first good look at JCI came in 2002 when I got a detailed briefing on its “core ...
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... recently formed group called Prevent, wanted €58 million for factory investments it had made for VW as part of a contract the automaker then cancelled. Customer of choice… not The auto industry is famous for brutal relations between OEMs and suppliers. Years of lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory ...
... administrative work and even some of the problem solving that traditionally defines managerial roles in procurement, forecasting, production planning and customer service, and we do face a real job creation challenge. The good news Despite these concerns, I believe that all of this points to an economy of abundance ...
... chain New data collected from over 1,000 supply chain executives shows a surging desire for the first ‘A’: heightened awareness of everything from customer demand spikes to the exact location and condition of individual shipments. The top three disruptive technologies are big data analytics, digital supply ...
... Scott Abell is getting thrown under the bus. Manage demand, not just supply I have long felt that supply chain people try too hard to please. The “customer is king” mentality overwhelms an equally important fact, which is that you can’t always get what you want. SCM World research on digital demand shows ...
... laboratory where serious experts tinker and find new truths. Not so with supply chain. True innovation happens in the field where practitioners, faced with customer driven challenges or investor pressure to cut costs, invent new processes by using the technologies increasingly at their fingertips. The learning ...
... O'Marah | June 27, 2014 “It’s all about people.” I hear this constantly from supply chain leaders whether they’re on an S&OP journey, a quest to become customer centric or a mission to collaborate with suppliers. The people challenge persists because process and technology, no matter how brilliantly conceived ...
... tasks while women tend to excel at multitasking. Supply chain, as a fundamentally cross-functional role, is all about multi-tasking. The balancing of customer needs with cost pressures necessarily means doing many things at once, all equally important. Ms. Barra, who has coped with a massive product recall ...
... happens.Inflation may finally be on the horizon, which could make passing along costs easier, plus shortages arising from trade skirmishes could help dampen customer impatience. The key here is to analyze revenue exposure arising from sudden supply hiccups and put precise prices on buffer inventory at all levels ...