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The Interconnected Supply Chain

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The moment I wake every morning, data is being generated about me. By the time I stretch and take a few paces around my room, the fitness bracelet on my wrist has already documented that my sleep cycle broke at 7:23 a.m. I check my phone for the weather, and it opportunely alerts me that it will take approximately 13 minutes to drive to work at this time of day. Sure, I use applications that access my current location, such as apps for mapping directions or for finding the closest Mexican restaurant, so I know that my phone has the…

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Adopting Multi-Echelon Inventory or other Advanced Analytics? The Struggle with Supply Chain Collaboration.

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I came into the field of supply chain management in 2004. The master project for my MBA program in that period was on ‘Collaborative Planning in the Extended Supply Chain’. Key questions to be tackled were ‘how do we quantify the benefits’, ‘how do we create mutual trust’. The breakthrough of internet technologies were assumed to drive the adoption of CPFR, Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment. 2006-2009 I did a PhD on Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization. It certainly helped me to define the ‘business case’ for collaboration. Basic principle of Multi-Echelon is we need to let go of a ‘local’ or…

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