Supply Chain Trends for Success
Keeping up with the latest supply chain trends can be invaluable for your career and your company success.
Why Ports Delays Could Cost Billions
Whether you have supplies or products waiting at the port, I'd take this as an opportunity to be strategic in thinking about supply chain design.
Why We Shouldn’t Shy Away from Risk
I always look for trends as I find that the 80/20 of success comes from watching and proactively addressing trends.
Why Care About Supply Chain Risk?
Businesses face many hurdles—some we can control and others we cannot. How we manage risk is what determines our success.
Risk – Take it or Leave it?
In today’s new normal business, prudent risk-taking can pay off greatly for your company
Why Build Your Appetite For Risk?
There are more and more stories in the news related to managing and mitigating risk. As companies go out of business, struggle to attain Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, etc, doesn't it seem a bit radical to recommend building an appetite for risk? Not if you build your appetite for risk, backed [...]
Sarbanes Oxley
Meant to protect investors and increase transparency in corporate accounting, implementing the Sarbanes Oxley Act takes some organizational introspection. The 2002 Sarbanes Oxley legislation (new, enhanced standards for all U.S. public companies) was established in response to high-profile financial scandals (Enron etc) in order to protect shareholders and the [...]
What are the Latest Supply Chain Trends?
How can we not only "get through" today's new normal business environment but THRIVE? In my 20+ years of experience as both an Operations Executive and as an entrepreneur and business consultant who has worked with multiple companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion dollar enterprises across varied industries and [...]
Emerging Supply Chain Trends
Stay on top of trends to stand out from the crowd. Those executives who stay on top of the latest trends and search for patterns and trends in their business are far more successful than their counterparts. In my 20+ years of experience across multiple industries and globally, [...]
Is Outsourcing Dead?
As the cost advantages for outsourcing dry up more companies are bringing manufacturing back to North America. Re-shoring may increasingly be your best bet for improving customer service levels without going broke. GE has started to rev up Appliance Park again - and is starting to bring manufacturing back [...]