All blog posts by Trevor

2013

• The Maturity of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain May 9th, 2013
• Embrace Complexity – Revisited April 17th, 2013
• Truth, Lies, and Statistical Modeling in Supply Chains – Part 3 April 5th, 2013
• Visibility, Agility, and Alignment – 3 capabilities powering the modern supply chain April 3rd, 2013
• Truth, Lies, and Statistical Modeling in Supply Chain – Part 2 February 13th, 2013
• Truth, Lies, and Statistical Modeling in Supply Chain February 1st, 2013
• To Outsource or to Insource, That is the Question January 16th, 2013
• Happy Tidings for 2013 January 2nd, 2013

2012

• Apples and Oranges, well, actually Apple and Amazon December 13th, 2012
• Serendipity and the Supply Chain November 28th, 2012
• Another One Bites the Dust November 1st, 2012
• Integrated Planning & Control – New Perspectives from Oliver Wight October 11th, 2012
• Supply Chain Control Towers: Defined and Described by Aberdeen September 26th, 2012
• The Smart Phone of SCM – no synching sessions required September 21st, 2012
• Engagement Platforms need Responsibilities August 30th, 2012
• Measuring Supply Chain Effectiveness August 28th, 2012
• Are Demand-Driven Value Networks still a dream? August 7th, 2012
• A reply to “Supply Chain Insights – Building Market-Driven Value Networks” July 20th, 2012
• Real Option Analysis is relevant to Supply Chains too July 13th, 2012
• Dynamic supply chain alignment: A theory ready for practical application June 26th, 2012
• A Paradigm Lost: It’s not all about changes in demand! June 11th, 2012
• Data is the new oil: know sooner, act faster June 4th, 2012
• You can print a working flute?! A radical impact to manufacturing and supply chains? May 17th, 2012
• Innovation in the Cloud: Beyond ERP April 17th, 2012
• SCM30: What Are the 3 Greatest Advancements in Supply Chain Management? April 6th, 2012
• The Shifting Sands of World Economies March 28th, 2012
• Supply Chain Agility: If you know it when you see it, do you need to define it? March 15th, 2012
• Fascinating clash of business models in mobile devices market March 7th, 2012
• Optimized Planning is Good, not God! February 21st, 2012
• Connecting changes to consequences: The missing piece for getting business value from business intelligence February 14th, 2012
• Supply chain excellence is not a guarantee for success January 31st, 2012
• Competing with time – A concept well worth re-exploring January 17th, 2012
• Forget social, it’s imbedded apps that matter January 13th, 2012

2011

• Control Tower Concepts: Control towers are all about orchestration December 15th, 2011
• The “miles ahead” vision of integrated supply chain planning and response management December 6th, 2011
• “Life is uncertain; eat dessert first.” – Great supply chain lessons from a chef November 22nd, 2011
• The quirks and quarks of the supply chain? November 14th, 2011
• Making “Kinexions” between influencers October 25th, 2011
• Embrace Complexity October 11th, 2011
• The importance of Response Management – Part 2 August 24th, 2011
• The importance of Response Management – Part 1 August 23rd, 2011
• Control Towers – Visibility, Insight, or both? July 12th, 2011
• The next big thing: ‘Control Towers’ July 5th, 2011
• Supply chain collaboration barriers? Process or technology – The debate continues June 22nd, 2011
• Gartner Top 25 after seven years – what have we learned? June 17th, 2011
• The rise and rise and rise of China. June 14th, 2011
• VUCA, a useful acronym for today’s supply chain. June 9th, 2011
• First thoughts from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. June 6th, 2011
• One size does not fit all. June 1st, 2011
• IBP or S&OP: What’s in a name? May 11th, 2011
• Visibility, the antidote to supply chain opacity. May 2nd, 2011
• Observations from a trip around the world – Part 2: Are we ready for the China ‘tsunami’? April 15th, 2011
• Observations from a trip around the world – Part 1: Response is cheap, by comparison. April 12th, 2011
• Visibility is a start. Collaboration is the goal. March 28th, 2011
• Is Forecasting Fatally Flawed? March 24th, 2011
• With offshoring and outsourcing, there needs to be a broader description of S&OP. March 18th, 2011
• Executive S&OP and operational S&OP- Should the data be the same? March 17th, 2011
• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses (Henry Ford) – Applies to S&OP? March 16th, 2011
• S&OP cross-functional collaboration: Necessary, but an insufficient definition of success. March 15th, 2011
• People, process, technology – The debate goes on. March 11th, 2011
• Dilbert explains the value of S&OP. March 3rd, 2011
• ERP failures: Myth or mythunderstood? March 1st, 2011
• Inventory management – What are the best practices? February 22nd, 2011
• “Who should know?” The key to the use of social networks in the supply chain. February 8th, 2011
• Supply chain responsiveness: the top competitive advantage for fabless semiconductor companies? January 24th, 2011
• The secret sauce for achieving continuous and collaborative S&OP. January 20th, 2011
• Mobile is the future; Apple is the leader. January 20th, 2011
• Applying hi-tech supply chain best practices to bio-manufacturing January 18th, 2011
• Social networks and supply chains: It’s a question of maturity January 6th, 2011

2010

• Do you trust yourself to collaborate? The real barrier to collaboration is not technology, but trust December 17th, 2010
• Head in the ‘cloud’ or feet on the ground? December 9th, 2010
• Startling supply chain stats from Gartner Healthcare Exchange November 24th, 2010
• S&OP: Where’s the technology? Right here! November 9th, 2010
• S&OP needs to evolve….here’s how November 5th, 2010
• What did our customers have to say? Kinexions 2010 – presentation overviews November 4th, 2010
• S&OP needs to evolve – I’m frustrated with traditional thinking! October 6th, 2010
• What is going on in the enterprise software space? October 1st, 2010
• S&OP Scenario Planning: Go Deep or Go Home September 17th, 2010
• Social media in supply chain collaboration August 26th, 2010
• Really unusually uncertain August 24th, 2010
• Electronics component shortages affect many industries August 18th, 2010
• Lessons learned from AMR Top 25 Supply Chain for 2010 August 9th, 2010
• Why S&OP? Why now? July 26th, 2010
• S&OP: Do you adapt the technology to the process, or the process to the technology? July 21st, 2010
• Planning and response: The two sides of the same coin July 12th, 2010
• What-if you had What-if for S&OP? July 6th, 2010
• Closing the gaps in supply chain management June 18th, 2010
• What’s behind the renewed interest in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)? June 10th, 2010
• Observations from the AMR Supply Chain Executive Conference: The constant interplay between efficiency and effectiveness June 8th, 2010
• Human intelligence and machine stupidity: Supply chains are about effectiveness, not only efficiency May 13th, 2010
• Can you get too Lean? April 30th, 2010
• I am adamant that good decisions can be made without perfect data April 27th, 2010
• An imminent threat to Western brand owners April 23rd, 2010
• Subscription pricing is the true disruptive innovation April 12th, 2010
• How can you evolve from business intelligence to business value? April 7th, 2010
• Talent and the supply chain March 25th, 2010
• Old-school organizational power structures thwart business performance: The old dogs need to learn new tricks March 11th, 2010
• Envisioning the new normal and other supply chain phenomena February 23rd, 2010
• New blood, fresh ideas in Pharma February 10th, 2010
• Visibility, supply chain performance, and benchmarking: A virtuous circle February 9th, 2010
• Supply chain KPIs: what’s important? January 27th, 2010
• APICS webcast on pharmaceutical supply chain now available on demand January 22nd, 2010
• Improved Planning: Looking for clearer forecasts as recovery nears January 19th, 2010
• Complimentary Aberdeen report on demand management January 15th, 2010
• SCM predictions for 2010: Lessons from the retail world January 4th, 2010

2009

• I am adamant that an accurate forecast does not reduce demand volatility December 18th, 2009
• The rules of response December 16th, 2009
• S&OP that matters…Bridge the disconnect between reality and planning December 14th, 2009
• Agile responsiveness in the supply chain driven by extreme information exchange December 9th, 2009
• A must-attend APICS webcast: Prescriptions for the modern-day pharmaceutical supply chain December 4th, 2009
• The supply chain gremlin that stole Christmas? November 30th, 2009
• Benioff says the old software business model is dead. So what’s new? November 20th, 2009
• Is your company leaking money by not fully leveraging purchase volumes and buying power? November 16th, 2009
• Is the supply chain finally being recognized by the mainstream as a strategic capability of a company? November 2nd, 2009
• Supply chain 2015 – the blurring of operational supply chain planning and execution October 27th, 2009
• Regaining control: improving visibility into and decision-making of outsourcing relationships October 15th, 2009
• Supplier collaboration needs to go far beyond the tactical exchange of data September 29th, 2009
• A final call for demand management webcast September 22nd, 2009
• AT&T recognizes benefits of closer collaboration September 21st, 2009
• A must-attend IW webcast with Cisco VP, Karl Braitberg and demand management researcher, Dr. Larry Lapide September 17th, 2009
• Complimentary Aberdeen report: success strategies for managing integrated demand-supply networks September 14th, 2009
• Demand management lessons learned from the H1N1 virus September 11th, 2009
• Reconciling financial plans and S&OP August 7th, 2009
• More collaboration, and less control; more coordination, and less optimization July 29th, 2009
• Is a pure IP play the correct strategy for the new world? July 28th, 2009
• What constitutes agility? July 17th, 2009
• Volatility is here to stay July 13th, 2009
• Supply chain growing in popularity June 30th, 2009
• Recession or reset? June 23rd, 2009
• Supply chain risk: a moving and continuous target June 5th, 2009
• Linking financial data to supply chain performance June 2nd, 2009
• Supply chain agility, adaptability and alignment May 1st, 2009
• Consolidated procurement reduces supply chain costs April 23rd, 2009
• What dogmas in supply chain management are not relevant any more? April 16th, 2009
• Emerging supply chains require more collaboration and less control; more coordination and less optimization April 13th, 2009
• Cloud computing: the next disruptive breakthrough for ERP? March 16th, 2009
• Lean manufacturing and coping with uncertainty and rapid change February 27th, 2009
• The supply chain is the life blood of money management February 10th, 2009
• Bankruptcy fears grip auto-parts suppliers. What should they do? January 27th, 2009
• Nearly all supply chain risks are unanticipated January 20th, 2009
• Calvin & Hobbs explain the Wall Street and auto industry bailouts January 16th, 2009

2008

• The past is not always an accurate indicator of the future December 15th, 2008
• Managing supply chain performance in a recession December 5th, 2008
• What impact will the credit crunch have on lean manufacturing? November 28th, 2008
• Circuit City closing stores – what’s the supply chain impact? October 21st, 2008
• Supply chain lessons learned from the credit crisis October 9th, 2008
• Succeeding with supply chain planning August 22nd, 2008
• i2 bought by JDA August 13th, 2008