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Practical and effective approach to building supply chain management capability
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 05/06/2013
» We are writing further on the topic of the emerging approach of supply chain coaching. As we have written before, we see this as a most effective way to bridge the gap in supply chain management (SCM) between classroom education and training, the traditional education from the institutions, to the very basic and pragmatic knowledge embedded in the organisation so that, on a day-to-day basis, supply teams are truly effectively in alignment with a company's objectives.
Supply chain management: What kind of rose?
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 24/04/2013
» As William Shakespeare wrote in his classic, Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet."
Finance and manufacturing (Re)Gaining respect
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 16/01/2013
» We're surprised to note that nowhere in the flood of articles about the new year have we seen anyone mention the numeral "13". Do people think that mentioning it would be akin to letting a black cat cross our path? Is it because we have had so much bad luck in recent years that they either think it cannot possibly get worse, or do they not want to tempt fate? We're not sure, but we remain confident in the future because of the positive way in which supply chain management (SCM) is evolving.
'Power to the people' the order of the day at beijing meet
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 07/11/2012
» We attended the TRACC Integrative Improvement Conference in Beijing last week. It was an excellent programme, featuring many presentations by practitioners who talked about their own companies' continuous improvement (CI) journeys.
Oswald duvel's shining legacy
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 10/10/2012
» We have often written here about continuous improvement and mentioned one especially good platform called TRACC. TRACC has been developed by a South African company called CCI which, in the person of Oswald Duvel, many years ago established a presence in Asia as a commitment to bring operational best practices here.
Supply chain asia forum in singapore comes of age
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 12/09/2012
» The annual Supply Chain Asia Forum was held two weeks ago in Singapore and it was a great event, as always. The main sessions did a good job of addressing the theme, "Innovation and Talents in Supply Chain: Missing Links for Success", and were well attended by some 300 professionals.
Resiliency is key to SCM's contribution
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 04/07/2012
» We wish to reintroduce ourselves this week. After almost 10 years as Weekly Link, beginning today we are simply, The Link. The editors have asked us to change a little bit, cutting back on frequency to every fortnight but with a bit more space each time, so we can discuss things in more depth. We are pleased to continue in this new vein.
SCM leaders building on others success
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 27/06/2012
» As we wrote last week, Gartner Research recently held its annual Supply Chain Conference and announced its Supply Chain Management Top 25 for this year. We discussed the key themes of the top companies' leading practices last week.
'Gartner supply chain top 25' continues to show the way
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 20/06/2012
» Gartner Research recently hosted its annual supply chain conference, and, based on the many things we have seen published as part of it, it continues to be in our estimation the landmark event of the supply chain management (SCM) year.
So what exactly are integrative improvement systems anyway?
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 06/06/2012
» In recent weeks, we have written about Integrative Improvement Systems (iiS) and are pleased that people have expressed curiosity about this approach. Based on what we wrote, the business benefits are reasonably evident; this especially includes the notion of the sustainability of the continuous improvement (CI) capability in an organisation.