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Closing the Loop, Optimizing the Supply Chain

I'd like to start a series of blog entries titled "Close the Loop" and addressing how, through a better use of supply chain information, companies can improve their operations, creating a more agile ecosystem while reducing risk. In this...

Published 11-20-2009 6:50 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Supplier, Operations Research, ecosystem

The Cost of Cloud

Does the cost of cloud computing limits the usability of a community cloud to support a supply chain? This is really the question I'd like to address today. Last April, McKinsey and last September, IDC have done an exercise of costing the difference...

Published 11-13-2009 10:33 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Cost Reduction, Governance, Cloud, finance, Community

Trade-offs between Supply and Demand

A lot is written about S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning , and I will not resume it here, but S&OP only goes as far. Fundamentally what COE's are confronted with is balancing supply and demand to maximize revenues while delighting customers...

Published 06-18-2009 12:45 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Visibility, Supplier, Demand, Cost Reduction, Supply, S&OP, DDSN

Should Manufacturing Companies move to the Cloud?

As already stated in earlier entries, the Cloud started with Web 2.0 and the Social Networking phenomena. Since, it has taken a life of its own, and is attracting many SMB's (Small and Medium Businesses) allowing them to fully rely on a cloud provider...

Published 05-28-2009 7:13 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Downturn, Cloud, Internet, Social Networking, Manufacturing

The Dead of the (traditional) Supply Chain

Early March, Industry Week published an article, titled " The Dead of the Supply Chain ", arguing that the supply chain as it has traditionally been defined is no longer feasible. Gone are the days when supply chains were linear, static, in...

Published 04-07-2009 7:50 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Visibility, Simulation

Can companies learn from space & submarine collisions?

A couple weeks ago I got my attention drawn to two different events that happened at one week's interval. The first was about the collision of two satellites in space. Indeed, an obsolete Russian military satellite crashed into one of Iridium's...

Published 02-25-2009 9:55 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Six Sigma, Visibility, Lean, Simulation

Developing Supply Chain Sustainability

In a previous post , I discussed uncertainty and illustrated it by highlighting the volatility on the Dow Jones . I was reminded of this when I ran into a document PriceWaterhouseCoopers , the accounting firm, released last December. It was titled "...

Published 01-20-2009 1:58 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Visibility, Sustainability, Simulation

Let's predict 2009 - 10 proposals for Manufacturing

As 2008 winds down, many people are attempting to predict what will happen in 2009. One common element is that the year will be difficult from an economical perspective. Whether the crisis will last 6, 9 or 12 months is open for debate, but there is a...

Published 12-20-2008 10:53 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: RFID, Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Green, SOA, Cloud, 2009, Predictions, business

The downturn, source of new opportunities

I am not forgetting my promise to continue discussing HP's Supply Chain Initiatives, and I am actually working on the next post, but as I had the opportunity to speak at two conferences this week, I want to share with you some of my observations....

Published 11-15-2008 3:41 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Downturn, Risk management, Survey

Building Flexibility in the Supply Chain

The other night I was looking at CNN. As many of you probably know, in these financially troubled days, they visualize the evolution of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. During my one hour watch, I saw the DJIA at +198 and at -456, and about every other...

Published 10-27-2008 9:35 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, End-to-end, SCOR

Global Supply Chains and a Downturn

Last week I was in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and had the opportunity to present to several CIO's on the subject of how to manage a global Supply Chain through a downturn. I know, a number of you may start argue whether we are in a downturn or not...

Published 09-03-2008 8:40 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, Downturn, Risk management

Is RFID mainstream?

The topic of RFID has been approached a few times in this blog. RFID, being a technology, is supporting a number of usage scenarios and its maturity depends on the area we are looking at. Access control and retail and certainly not at the same place....

Published 08-21-2008 7:17 PM by guillaumeoget

Filed under: Experience, RFID, Supply Chain, Visibility, Lean

To See or not to See

At the end of May I had the privilege to participate in AMRResearch’s Supply Chain conference. During the plenary session several presenters spoke about how they were improving their supply chains, and to my great astonishment, all spoke about the need...

Published 07-03-2008 7:21 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, AMRResearch, Supply Chain, Six Sigma, Visibility, Lean

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