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Category Archives: Supply Chain Management
Your Age of Discontinuity
I wish we would all quit acting like everything was “normal,” implying steady and predictable, before Covid. It’s like we’ve all decided to recall “the …
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Attracting the Best Candidates
As manufacturers are searching high and low for employees, it is crucial that we not make bad hiring decisions out of a sense of desperation. …
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How User Controlled Pull Impacts Manufacturing
People want what they want when they want it. That’s hardly a crazy concept; just one most manufacturers don’t believe applies to them. But it …
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What is Strategic Inventory?
While the integral role of supply chain, which includes inventory decisions, has become more obvious to everyone, and college degrees in supply chain are increasing, …
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How are Global Supply Chain, Covid Vaccine Distribution, and China Changing Now?
An exception to our 6 minute limit, this 30 minute podcast addresses “what are current supply chain conditions internationally?” “What is the challenge with vaccine …
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Vaccine Distribution Is Not That Difficult
Now that approved vaccines for Covid-19 exist, why is it so difficult to get them from the manufacturers into the hands of those who inject, …
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Push or Pull, Revisited
Some insist that “electronic Kanban,” an alleged “pull” system, and increased ERP responsiveness replace the pull of a visual gemba-based kanban. Not true. Whether push …
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Digitization of Manufacturing
One of the many challenges of being a smaller manufacturer is that customers expect just as much value from you as from anyone else. No …
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Is Your Supply Chain Safe Now?
The paucity of adequate contingency planning for our supply chains became apparent early in the COVID-19 emergency. Sensitivity analysis with contingencies is an active responsibility …
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