lcecere's tracks

To prepare for the future, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews supply chain leaders to share their insights on what made them successful and what advice they have for upcoming supply chain leaders. Here she interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis. John started his career as a technologist building code and led an innovative supply chain planning company. In the discussion, John speaks of continuous learning and leadership lessons.

Abstract. In this world of variability and improved analytics, there is no substitute for the right question. Getting to the right question is a barrier for most executives hard-wired in historical paradigms. Here we turn to Anthony Howcroft, author of the book Questions—A Users Guide, for advice on how to formulate a good question and what it means for leaders.

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Jose Deya is a Founding member of the new start-up Indigo revolutionizing agriculture in Brazil and Argentina. Why use crop additives if you can improve the soil conditions for farmers through additives? Does the answer to global warming lie in sustainable farming? In this podcast, Lora Cecere explores how Indigo, a new business venture in agriculture, is attempting to innovate in sustainable agriculture:

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, shares a company and software solution story. All too often, a company has the right solution but did not know they do and go on a nonsensical and circuitous path to try to replace their supply chain planning software with lower-performing solutions.

Project Zebra is a collaborative effort between business leaders, ASCM, educators, and technologists to define and test outside-in supply chain planning processes. Today's processes are inside-out using enterprise data. The focus of Project Zebra is to design strategies that can bi-directional orchestrate across plan, sell, make, deliver, and source.

This webinar summarizes the group's work to document the "as is" and "to be" states. The next phase is the test phase of two capabilities: Market-driven Demand Management and the Market-Driven Knowledge Graph. The question remains, can business leaders change their stripes, like a zebra, and adapt based on process innovation.

Now in its 8th year, in this webinar, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, explains the Supply Chains to Admire methodology and releases the results of the 2021 winners. The Supply Chains to Admire methodology analyzes the performance of 600 public companies by peer group for the period of 2011-2019.

Today’s supply chains respond based on historical and transactional data. While market data abounds, companies struggle to use it. In project zebra, a cross-company group is working on defining and executing outside-in processes.

Driving improvement in manufacturing is a great opportunity, but how do companies balance improvement initiatives and compliance to standardization? It is a tough balancing act. To gain insights, we interviewed Jane Kaiser, North American Manufacturing Vice President for the seed division for Bayer. Here Lora Cecere, asks Jane the tough questions on driving manufacturing leadership.

Lora will explain the methodology used to evaluate the progress of seven-hundred public companies within twenty-seven industry sectors. The webinar is June 16th at 11:00 ET.

Here is the link to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4782631904005707024

Software capabilities are growing, but how do we improve organizational decision-making and help companies to learn. In this podcast, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, tackles this topic.