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September 28, 2015
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A Buy-Side Blogger’s View (Part 1): What I Learned at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit

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Lora was kind enough to invite me to attend the global summit a few weeks ago and while I meant to do some live blogging, I was too busy taking it all in and writing it all down, and now I’m staring at 12 pages of ‘knowledge inventory’. The value of flow and moving smaller lot sizes is not lost on me here. Anyway, needless to say, it was great to be back at the Phoenician with Lora (an homage of sorts to the good old AMR days), and with a broader supply chain community. Procurement and inbound SCM is…

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August 27, 2015
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My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? Deep integration!

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I recently got interviewed as a blogger for the Global Summit. The question was how I imagine the Supply Chain in 2020. My first thought went to ‘deep integration’. What strikes me the most when I’m consulting or teaching companies is the lack of integration in today’s supply chains. If I look at retailers it is still common to have private label suppliers stuffed with inventory, central or regional DC’s stuffed with inventory and shops stuffed with inventories. We all demand high service levels from one step to the next. There seems to be a lack of trust, a lack…

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