Business complexity and outdated systems are no excuse for a broken S&OP process.
Robert Valletta tells a great story about how a $1 Billion global biotech company with more than 10,000 SKUs, 7 plants, 3 DCs overcame an unsynchronized ERP system, a forecasting system without a reporting module, and no budget for new systems or more […]
Bob Trebilcock in Supply Chain Management Review notes the on-going evolution of role of sustainability objectives in the supply chain from “nice to do” to “business critical”. Citing examples of four companies who have successfully made this transition, he outlines four practices essential to achieving sustainability goals:
1. Adopt rigorous, defensible reporting methodology […]
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights report Shared Responsibility: a New Paradigm for Supply Chains discusses the ways that large global buyers have worked together and with host country governments to affect measurable improvements in human rights challenges that are too big and/or too deeply entrenched to be addressed unilaterally.
In […]
Adrian Gonzalez’s article, Target Cracks Down on Suppliers: Same Old Same Old Approach, Same Old Same Old Results explains how Target and Walmart are tightening delivery windows to improve inbound performance. He notes this old strategy and wonders what would happen if the “800 pound gorillas” adapted a popular approach to parenting known as […]
SVCC will recognize individuals or teams in 4 categories for Supply Chain Excellence at the Annual Summit on October 17. Sponsored by Colliers International, this year’s awards and ceremony builds on the inaugural awards last year. The Awards Committee, co-chaired by Rob Payne (Aurora Healthcare) and Jack Rosenberg (Colliers), has identified the 4 awards which […]
Neli Vazquez Rowland, a ’85 alum of Loyola University Chicago, founded A Safe Haven Foundation in 1994. With the “double bottom line” (saving money and saving lives in the long term), Neli created an organization with the goal to end the circle of poverty and allow marginalized individuals in society to gain financial stability.
ASHF, located […]
Coming out of last week’s Advisory Board Meeting 3 new SIGs were identified and we are looking for people who would like to participate in the groups and potentially chair or co-chair them – so please share this with others on your team. The SIG is:
Labor / Workforce Optimization – Implications of increasing automation
As you […]
Our center’s own John Caltagirone and Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ally Ryder, recently published an article in Supply Chain Management Review called, “Best Practices or Better Practices?” The article explores the coinage of the term “best practices” and the circumstantial nature of the supply chain industry that suggests that “better practices” maybe more fitting. Often a […]
In his remarks at the 4th Annual Chicago Supply Chain and Sustainability Summit, Chief of Mission, Kevin O’Reilly, exclaimed the forever comparative advantage the Panama canal has had throughout history and even more so with the canal’s ongoing expansion. Currently the canal is responsible for 85% of the country’s economy, simply from shipping and services. Even […]
Millennials have a tendency to be idealists. On average you find articles on millennials wanting to make a difference and work for organizations and companies that are creating positive changes in the world. For that reason, it is no surprise that millennials are beginning to pick up on procurement.
Anyone unfamiliar with procurement, it is the section of a company that deals […]
Al Gini
Gini in a BottleAndrew Keyt
Family MattersAnne Reilly
N.B.*Cliff Shultz
Emerging MarketsEve Geroulis
The PolisJohn Caltagirone
The Value StreamMaciek Nowak
The Supply ChainMary Ann McGrath
The Market ShareQuinlan Ramble
The Quinlan RambleRaymond Benton Jr
Sustainability and Social EnterpriseStacy Neier
Q the RunwayTimothy Classen
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