This week, I began teaching a new round of outside-in planning classes. These classes are designed for networking and exploring outside-in models in a safe
Shifting sands. War. Tariffs. Shortages. Price increases. Ocean booking cancellations. Tightening of pocketbooks: changing demand patterns. Decline in consumer confidence. All are unsettling. Companies are
Self-congratulations notes abounded this week as vendor-after-vendor shared their rankings on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning. For me, it was a big
Drip. Drip. Drip. Industry 4.0. DripBig Data. Drip.The Connected Supply Chain. DripDigital Supply Chain. Drip.Autonomous Supply Chain Planning. Drip. Self-Healing Supply Chains. Drip. Touchless Supply
Thirteen years. 600 posts. Where does time go? For over a decade, since founding Supply Chain Insights in 2012, I have pounded the keyboard, asking
This week, I feel like a bobble-head. My head is wobbling with announcements, late-night Friday press releases, company name changes, and executive turnover in the
In December, I spoke at an internal supply chain kick-off for a group of consultants. As I prepped, I noticed a document left on the
The journey to becoming data-driven requires owning the cycle of ingestion, storage, and usage. The adoption of new technologies makes this easier and drives process flexibility in schema and the preservation of semantics.
Today’s supply chains focus on cost reduction with the assumption that the reduction in cost will translate to margin. This is not the case.
The lack of organizational degrades value.
Do these dogs hunt is a blog challenging the validity of the concepts of autonomous planning, probabilistic planning and the use of artificial planning in planning systems.
