Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights

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.

Tags: projectzebra, outside-in processes, supplychainplanning

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Tags: supply chain planning, decision support, new forms of analytics, supply chain insights, lora cecere

The pandemic speaks: supply chain management is more critical to organizational resilience. As a result, money flows into the supply chain market by venture capitalists, spurring a rash of liquidity events, consolidation, and market shifts. Here, the Founder of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, asks and answers the critical question: Is this good for the business buyer? The answer is no. Consolidation, liquidity events, and venture capital investments typically result in employee turnover, slowing product roadmaps, and client delivery.

Tags: JDA, Blue Yonder, FarEye, Project44, Kinaxis, E2open, Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, value for business leaders

You are invited to Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2021

Embracing the Art of the Possible: How Could We Redefine Supply Chain Planning?

New forms of analytics allow companies to connect workflow, engines, and new forms of visualization to embrace demand, not as a time-phased outcome but as a river. The change is possible if and only if we redefine work. In this podcast, we explore the art of the possible and challenge companies to tackle the change management issues.

Tags: supply chain planning, lora cecere, supply chain insights,

We are now 18 months into the Pandemic response. Companies are continuing to wrestle with how to drive a local response. The hammer (mandatory shutdowns) and the dance routine (slowly returning to normalcy) continues.  As the spikes rise in India and the United States struggles to get workers to restart parts of the economy, the answer for supply chain leaders is the same. In this podcast, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, recommends focusing on mining market data, building a mature capability for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and ensuring robust supplier development efforts with suppliers. Own your forecast and your data to ensure that you can avoid shortages.

Tags: pandemic, lessons from the pandemic, build better, supply chain excellence, lora cecere, supply chain insights