Operating in a Global Economy is not for the weak. Organizations need to be fit. Fit for the sprints. Fit for the marathons. Fit for the heavy lifting that comes with a perfectly primed pipeline of raw materials from strategic sources, WIP between plants and finished goods ready for customer... Read more...
With nearly three decades of experience working in the thrift industry, Tim O’Neal has spent the past 18 years focused on the mission of fighting unemployment in the state of Arizona. When O’Neal was brought on with Goodwill of Central Arizona, the organization was in serious financial trouble a... Read more...
People can be categorized in one of two ways - observant or non-observant. According to Dr. Dean Kashiwagi, it is non-observant people that cause risk and inefficiency in an organization by not looking at their surroundings to understand what they should. They collect too much data to help make deci... Read more...
Utilizing a Digital Modular Supply Chain to Respond to Change The outlook for American consumer spending appears to us to be improving, with consumer confidence growing, and a labor market and wages trending higher. Consumers preferences are changing and the fast-paced customer-driven market has ra... Read more...
This Podcast discusses supply chain the transformation point of view. Specifically, we are considering what organizations can do to ensure that their supply chain is adaptable and able to absorb disruptive forces. We exist in volatile and uncertain times with high variability that can have massively... Read more...
Supply chain management is critical to every business at some level. To some it constitutes their entire business, and to others the supply chain is out of sight and out of mind. However, raw material manufacturers and distributors determine business’ fates even if businesses do not want to admit ... Read more...
Greg Grindley, supply chain expert, shares how in 2001 the US military looked at long-term needs and risks in their supply chain to military forces in Afghanistan to completely transform their process. Delivering supplies to a land locked region was not without challenges including cost, delivery ... Read more...
Every company pours a great deal of research, analysis, and resources into transforming their organization, asking themselves strategic questions: How can we accelerate our growth? How can we increase revenues XX%? How can we gain market share in our industry? Seize this opportunity to examine... Read more...
Introduction I think we can agree that we cannot effectively manage what we cannot see. This is particularly true with business process. If we all don’t see the same thing, we cannot begin to make things better. With today’s torrid business pace, many organizations make assumptions about how ma... Read more...
At the root of every issue comes a problem that all leaders of organizations must face: How do you create a quality service with few resources, and inexperienced people. This is the same issue my Father ran into when he was trying to make our family successful with only my mother and himself trying ... Read more...