July-August 2019
If you’re a long-time reader of Supply Chain Management Review, you’re familiar with Larry Lapide’s “Insights” column. Typically, Larry is writing about the many facets of planning, but occasionally, he takes on a provocative topic. One year, he questioned whether it was necessary to be a Top 25 supply chain leader, especially if in your industry, good enough gets the job done.
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Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Unleashed
Sales and operations planning is a powerful tool for delivering improved processes and profits. But, that's only part of what makes S&OP work. People (and how they work…
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How Supply Chain Officers Can Drive Margin Expansion
Given their strategic role in an organization, supply chain leaders can do more to proactively drive change and growth, in addition to leading cost cutting initiatives.
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Organizational Change Management and Culture: Keys to lasting, sustainable cost improvement
New tools—including technology, Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or zero-based principles—require leadership support, rigorous change management, and on-going…
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Procurement improvement begins with process
Procurement is buffeted by the headwinds of market disruption: tariffs, cyber attacks and a tight labor market.
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Building and sustaining university supply chain management programs
During the past decade the number of university level supply chain management programs has expanded tremendously in recognition of the greater visibility of our discipline, its…
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2019 NextGen Supply Chain Awards Recap
For our inaugural event, Supply Chain Management Review, Peerless Media and IDC recognized five companies leading the way in the adoption of new technologies.
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2019 Top 50 Third Party Logistics (3PL) providers: “Amazonization” driving change across the board
The inexorable advance of Amazon is creating new challenges for logistics managers who must meet heightened shipper expectations while navigating today's complex 3PL…
