Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

To make sure that your manufacturing operations can run smoothly and that your business can reach success, here are some top tips to ensure that you can expertly manage your processes and your employees. Get the Right Supplies. This will ensure that all of your engineering needs are met no matter your company’s requirements.

Supply Chain 69

Supply Chain Management Software Quality 69

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations. Over two-thirds (67%) are at some stage of implementation.

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Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 65

HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2019

However, when financial consultants and project professionals are engaged to assist with the taxes of business, time can be saved, resulting in more revenue. They evaluate your business strategy, operation management, supply chain logistics, level of risk exposure and the likes.

Consultative 92

Consultative Supply Chain Long-term Reputation 92

HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The top managers are the C-suite managers and carry the titles of chiefs-- the chief executive office, the chief financial officer, the chief marketing manager, the chief operational manager, and the chief technology manager. They keep quality control over the materials supplied. Their role is to convey top-down management.

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Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Same firm handles radioactive waste at Hanford In this file photo, container management operators at US Ecology Idaho near Mountain Home catalog closed drums filled with various types of hazardous waste in. Operating Events. Source: Topix – Nuclear Energy News Published on 2018-11-20 Explosion kills 1 in Idaho.

Execution 50

Execution Supply Chain Energy Banking 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Professor Mahender Singh, research director of the MIT Supply Chain 2020 project, says our current health care system is not designed for the profoundly altered demand patterns that are expected and supply chains will have to be reinvented. In a recent webinar.

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Supply Chain Health Care Webinar Project 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? I described in an earlier post how Tesco worked for years to improve its supply chain capabilities, then leveraged this value by using deeper customer knowledge to enrich customer experiences.

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Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. A roundtable conversation with our advisers.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. On average, those projects generated enough financial savings to pay back the loan in just three years.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This applies to every single aspect of your company, from supply chain all the way to employee management. If your business operates via house calls (plumbers, electricians, movers, tech experts, etc) then you need a unique, effective solution to manage your team on the go. Supply Chain Optimization.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Software Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. IT as Process Creator.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

LIFE focuses attention on the full life cycle of products, from supply chain to production excellence to designing longer-lasting and repairable products. Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But once you’ve narrowed down the field to a few contenders and carefully read their proposals, it’s important to test them on two other dimensions: Compatibility: Dig into how they operate. For instance, do they want your people to participate in the project to learn something about the subject? Consulting Hiring'

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Consultative Supply Chain Proposal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Operations in a Connected World. This black box approach can’t last. Insight Center.

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

More than half (58%) said they were expected to know details about work and projects they believed were beneath their level, and more than half also felt they were involved in decisions that those below them should be making. This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The problem with going from a one-person organization to a larger one is that all aspects of your business need to be able to effectively scale with you, including your website, supply chain, manufacturing process, logistics, and admin to name a few!

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Entrepreneur Supply Chain Long-term Content 108

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. Which do you respond to first?

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. In some industries, 3D printing is projected to reach the mainstream in three to ten years. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable. But inventory is not a minor issue. I was wrong.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Today, digitally recorded data describe nearly everything about our world, from highly tangible things like parts in the supply chain, inventory on the shelf, and seats on the plane to less tangible concepts like probabilities and sentiment. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Apple has autonomous car projects and AI-based speakers in the works.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6%

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. Therefore, continuous communication, joint projects, and stakeholder engagement are what is needed to build constructive working relationships with those constituencies. Nike is about fitness.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Unfortunately, the history of IT investments in most organizations is far from stellar: Research over the years suggests that the overall failure rate of IT projects is around 70%. Operations in a Connected World. Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. Insight Center.

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Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. Second, Bedore spoke about how Walmart thinks about its investments in green power: "There is an ROI calculation on all sustainability investments like on all projects, but.we

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ROI IRR Power Payback Period 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Coca-Cola operates in more than 200 countries and the needs of each market depend on a variety of factors. Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused. We can fund projects at levels that make a real difference.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

One obvious example is supply chain management. If a key account is promised priority access to urgent products or services, it is Operations who can provide that, not Sales. Best-practice companies choose to train their operations and supply chain people in KAM as well as their sales people.

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Supply Chain Management How To Benchmarking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Have you ever worked on a project that produced unexpected results ? Start all projects or change efforts with the conscious realization that there could be surprising outcomes. This information allowed the project managers to modify their plans before rolling it out to the whole company.

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Airlines Supply Chain Scenario Planning Travel 11