Straight Talk - Supply Chain Insights

Interview with Shellie Molina, a senior leader in  supply chain management with experience at First Solar and Rollease  Acameda, shares insights on her use of the Supply Chain Insights  research. Gain insights from her views on the use of eBooks and Supply  Chains to Admire research to improve Sales and Operations Planning  (S&OP) and drive supply chain excellence.

Tags:  S&OP, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Excellence,  Supply Chain Management, Benchmarking, Women in Supply Chain,  Leadership, Supply Chain Insights

Working with data scientists can be a lot like dogs  chasing their tail. The language and thought processes between business  users and data scientist teams are different, and the data scientists  can be arrogant and difficult to corral. In this interview, Lora Cecere,  Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Jennie Wienke, Randall  Reilly, in how she navigates the gulf between data scientists and  business users. #273

Tags:  data scientists, organizational talent, analytics, business results,  supply chain management, lora cecere, Supply Chain Insights

Interview with Kevin Wong, COO of Nulogy on the  Building of Supply Chain 2030. In preparation for the Supply Chain  Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights  interviews Kevin on how to build value networks.   272

Tags: Nulogy, supplychain2030, blockchain, networks

As we get ready for the Supply Chain Insights  Global Summit, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights is  interviewing all of the technologists attending to gain insights on how  they see Supply Chain 2030. Here Lora interviews John Tecce, manager of  North East Sales of ThoughtSpot. The company is a new form of analytics  combining enterprise search and artificial intelligence.   #271

Tags: supplychain, analytics, thoughtspot, loracecere, supplychaininsights

What is Supply Chain Excellence? In this discussion, Lora shares insights on Gartner Top 25 2019 winners on the effective frontier of balancing growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) using data from the 2010-2018 time period. Here she explains why no company on the Gartner Top 25 2019 list beat peer group performance while driving improvement. 

Tags: supply chain excellence, Gartner Top 25, Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chains to Admire, Supply Chain Index, supply chain, business strategy, network strategy

In 2019 only 35% of manufacturing leaders rate  their Sales and Operations Planning processes effective. In contrast,  65% rated the processes effective in 2016. In this podcast, Lora Cecere,  founder of Supply Chain Insights shares the reasons for this  precipitous decline. The remedy is enlightened leadership. To make the  shift, companies need to define what defines supply chain excellence and  how it ties to the business strategy. Then manage the supply chain as a  complex non-linear system to ensure the recognition of constraints, the  design of buffers, and the impact of changes in mix. Only 30% of  companies have “what if analysis” and only 50% of companies tie the  output of the tactical plan in S&OP to execution. As organizational  complexity increases—with seven S&OP processes using five different  technologies—getting the basics right matters more than ever.

Tags: Sales and Operations Planning, IBP, Supply Chain Excellence, Demand planning, 

 Inventory, supply chain strategy, supply chain insights, Lora Cecere, supply chain tactics 

In this podcast, Lora Cecere interviews Doug  Bordonaro, Field Chief Technology Officer, on the use and relevance of  enterprise search to answer questions at the speed of business. Join the  podcast to understand how this new form of descriptive analytics can  improve supply chain decision making. 

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Podcast with Lora Cecere and CJ Das from Simple  Tire discussing Analytics strategies. CJ is an innovative CIO driving  change in business through collaboration and delivering business results  from innovative analytics technologies. #266

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Why are inventory levels in the supply chain higher  post-recession than before 2007? In this podcast, Lora Cecere, founder  of Supply Chain Insights, share insights to answer the question and  offers guidance to better manage inventories in a complex world.  #265

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Inventory, supply chain strategy, supply chain insights, Lora Cecere, supply chain tactics