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Supply chain management gaining a higher profile in China
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 22/10/2014
» As we reported in our previous column, we attended the Supply Chain Executive World Summit in Shanghai last month and were struck by the increased focus on supply chain management (SCM) in China and the achievements that have resulted.
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A closer look at global supply chain ecosystems
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 24/02/2016
» We continue from our previous column with a more detailed synopsis of the key points Mark Millar makes in his important book, Global Supply Chain Ecosystems: Strategies for Competitive Advantage in a Complex, Connected World.
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Concurrency and its implications
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 31/05/2017
» Thanks to our old favourites at Kinaxis, we've been mulling over a profound piece written by Matt Davis at SCM World, entitled "Concurrency -- Embracing the death of S&OP, SCOR and other supply chain paradigms".
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Supply chain management is gaining focus in China
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 08/10/2014
» We attended the Supply Chain Executive World Summit in Shanghai in September and were struck by the recent advances in supply chain management (SCM) in China. Not so long ago, in our line of work, we had trouble getting Chinese businesspeople to consider the SCM body of knowledge and how their enterprises could benefit by applying it. Now, it is quite clear that the tide has turned.
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Greater the change, the more it's the same
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 02/07/2014
» In our usual review of current news and opinion, we have perceived a certain theme — the pace of progress seems so rapid in many areas, especially in technology and economics, but not all people see it as true progress. Such is human nature to second-guess progress and resist change.
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The scor model is still the standard
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 04/12/2013
» We are reminded of a couple of expressions lately. First, "What goes around comes around." Second, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
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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.
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'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.
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Supply chain trends and challenges in Asia-Pacific
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 08/02/2012
» The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 report for 2011, which we wrote about in the middle of last year, contained a number of timely conclusions as well as four themes for leaders and recommendations, based on the findings of the study.
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Celebrating supply chain slavery
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 01/02/2012
» We are again drawing from the richness of supply chain blogs, this time of a prolific fellow named Pete Abilla who operates from shmula.com. He is a major proponent of the Lean/Six Sigma movement and is particularly adept at presenting down-to-earth, practical everyday examples of these approaches.
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