- 1. Four Steps to Streamline Your Supply Chain and Make it More Efficient
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- SupplyChainBrain recently published an article outlining a four-step methodology for creating leaner and more effective supply chains. This methodology is composed of four steps: understanding the supply ...
- 2. CPG Supply Chain Rankings
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- The annual ranking of consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chains is out, and there's not much change.Walmart still is atop the list and the usual suspects, albeit in a slightly different order than last ...
- 3. Results of Recent Gartner Supply Chain Study
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- The results of this year's Gartner & The Supply Chain Digest study are in, and as usual they're a fascinating read. Not only is the methodology interesting to see, the results in some categories, in particular ...
- 4. Applying Lean to MRO
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- MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) purchasing is one area of procurement that consistently flies under the radar. Might it be a good target for process improvement and cost reduction?Kevin Tacek ...
- 5. A Critique of the Gartner Top 25
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- Everyone in the supply chain world anxiously awaits the announcement of Gartner's yearly Top 25 Supply Chains, yet not everyone agrees with their selection methodology.When you're an ex-Gartner analyst known ...
- 6. Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chain
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- Gartner's annual rankings of the top 25 global supply chains has been released. Are there any changes at the top?A few, but as usual the methodology and individual rankings are most interesting. Read the ...
- 7. Top Ten Concerns For Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Analyzed
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- ... the report’s authors, a two-part methodology was implemented to create “The top ten global health supply chain issues: Perspectives from the field.” The initial phase consisted of telephone interviews ...
- 8. Using Six Sigma
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- Six Sigma, a counterpart to Lean in the continuous improvement toolkit, is the subject of the latest installment on the Chief Procurement Officer site. It's a methodology based on the use of statistical ...
- 9. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology
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- The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, has published a new report entitled 'Supply Chains to Admire'. Readers have had a lot of questions about methodology, metrics, etc., so Lora has detailed her criteria ...
- 10. Thoughts on the Gartner Top 25
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- As you know, Gartner recently revealed their top 25 supply chains for this year. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is not impressed. She sees a number of issues and limitations with their methodology, ...
- 11. Strategic Integration Needs a Plan
- (Integration)
- ... goal need to have a plan and a methodology to get there. I believe most companies need external help that is skilled in the specifics of integration to provide the leadership and education to get ther ...
- 12. Daisychaining - from GXS' Perspective
- (EDI)
- ... in this kind of process, but Scala holds that continued use of the practice will eventually cause the loss of data/transactions with no adequate methodology to trace and resolve the issues. I believe he ...
- 13. Use the 5S Methodology
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- The 5S methodology is an important component of continuous improvement. Joseph Wilkes, on the Manufacturing Digital site, explains what the 5S's are and what they mean.Following these principles is a proven ...
- 14. Lean Essentials
- (News)
- There's a lot involved in Lean, so much that it's sometimes necessary to review what the essential concepts and tools are that are critical to the approach.In a Process Excellence Network article, Patange ...
- 15. Reasons for Lack of CI Adoption
- (News)
- Continuous improvement techniques have had great success across all types and sizes of businesses. Yet, some haven't adopted CI. Why is that?On the Product Design & Development site, Alan Nicol provides ...
- 16. Innovation vs. Continuous Improvement
- (News)
- Mike Suman, on the M Live site, expresses concerns about the potential for the Lean continuous improvement methodology to inhibit innovation.Although they can certainly co-exist, it is definitely possible ...
- 17. Lean for Sales & Marketing
- (News)
- The value of the Lean continuous improvement methodology for manufacturing processes is well-documented. When you get down to it, though, it's also tailor-made for other parts of the business as well.David ...
- 18. Issues with Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chain
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- The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, has a problem with Gartner's methodology in selecting their top 25 supply chains. In fact, she has several.While she thinks they had good intentions, she's hoping to ...
- 19. EDI Costs are Rising
- (EDI)
- ... methodology he developed and has been using within his own work. But I wonder if there are more obvious indications of costs that you may be experiencing. All the standard internal costs are in place, ...
- 20. Benefits or Nuisance: Vendor Compliance
- (Management)
- ... - using the Vendor Scorecard methodology verse assess penalties whether you have reasonable requirements/expectations timely notification of issues to your partners Using a scorecard tool that can ...
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