What Supply Chains and Liberal Arts Have in Common…
Should Supply Chain be a Strategic Function?
Because your supply chain has a long and important reach from suppliers to customers, it is one of your key areas to strategize to ensure profitability. Only if you want to ensure results! My view of supply chain is from your suppliers’ supplier through your manufacturing processes (internal and [...]
Priming Your Supply Chain for the Amazon Effect
Published on March 2, 2016 Preview Lisa Anderson, President of Claremont, CA-based LMA Consulting Group, Inc. presents a primer for her APICS 2015 speech on the Amazon Effect and provides a few tips for success.
TST to Drive Supply Chain Performance
Our most successful clients are constantly thinking about where they are headed. They think about why they are going there - how does it fit with their vision? How does it have meaning for their customers? Employees? Supply chain partners? They also think about emerging trends - what [...]
Supply Chain Strategies for Success
You are keeping pace with the latest supply chain trends, but are you focused on the ones that will mean success for your team and company? If there is one area that changes on a seemingly daily basis, it is your end-to-end supply chain. World events change your supply [...]
Are You Able to be Resilient in Your Decision Making?
As we kick off our new series “The Resilient Supply Chain”, we are thinking about all the aspects of resiliency. It is overwhelming as to the volatility of almost every aspect of the end-to-end supply chain. Just in the last month, there have been many events/ factors that have [...]
Leveraging Supply Chain Trends: Lead Time Improvement
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 [...]