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Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons learned from Covid-19

“This is your Supply Chain…scared to meet you”

How many of us making decisions that impact our business on a daily basis have a clear idea of how our supply chain is structured? Some might probably raise a…

Supply Chain Management: its Resilience and Criticality

Most C-Suite executives and Board members still take Supply Chain efficiency as a given, a green’s fee. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is seldom properly recognized…until recently. It is typically only…

The Impact of a US & China Trade War

Recent events relating to the exchange of tariffs between the United States and China are leading many to believe that our two countries are well on their way to a…

Breaking through our own “incompetence” levels

Achieving growth as a business requires the destruction of barriers that are typically associated with our own areas of incompetence. This process occurs in a few stages. We learn, we…

Inventory, Lead-times and Variability

Building on our previous article (LINK), I want to share with you how to continue the optimization of your inventory beyond minimizing obsolescence, increasing accuracy, and accelerating turn over. You…

Back to Basics: Is Your Inventory Hindering Your Sales

It sounds counterintuitive, but yes, inventory could be hindering your sales. One of the most powerful levers to drive profitability and sales is inventory. As a small or…

Break the bundle and think CASH-flow!

I believe that management teams spend a lot of time looking at their income statement and not paying enough attention to their cash-flow. But most recently I am being asked…

You want a strategic supply chain team? Here are 5 things you need to start with.

How many times have you heard that this or that company is hiring strategic supply chain talent, and yet their task force is plagued with tactical experts? Professionals that for the…