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Integrated Business Planning (IBP) – House of Planning
During my Lean/6-Sigma Black Belt studies, while working as a supply-chain management practitioner in the high technology and industrial manufacturing industries, I became familiar with “The House of Quality”, the first matrix in the four-phase Quality
Achieve Results Faster by Increasing Your Company’s Clockspeed
The classic definition of clockspeed is the rate at which a processor can complete a processing cycle, typically measured in megahertz or gigahertz. More recently the term has been co-opted as a method for categorizing industries and companies. For com
Planting the Seeds for Blockchain in the Food & Beverage Supply Chain
Blockchain is a hot topic across the supply chain industry and often accompanied by more questions than answers. With all of this hype you might think that every midsize and large company has some level of an operational blockchain capability in place.
Retail Store Location Planning – Creating Balance, Driving Profit
The fundamental challenge in retail is one of balance. More specifically, balancing the need to achieve the company’s fiscal objectives, execute effectively at the store level and satisfy customers. The sheer complexity of modern omni-channel retailing
Supply Chain Data Management: Making Data Make Sense for Supply Chain Planning
One breezy fall day last year, before COVID-19, I spent several hours trying to rake leaves off my lawn. Unfortunately, every time I thought I was close to being done, the wind blew more leaves off the trees and more leaves from my neighbor’s yard into
Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data
Companies across all industries and sizes struggle to make sense of and value from the available mountains of data. Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into Your Supply Chain
Let’s start by busting a myth about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): it’s a feel-good movement recently started by millennials. Not true! CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s with the expansion of large corporations and became a popular subject
Supply Chain Heroes: Stories of Innovation in Support of COVID-19
The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses worldwide and created supply chain heroes across the globe. From suits to PPE gowns and masks, from baby wipes to disinfectant wipes, from food service to groc
Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions Through Supply Chain Digital Transformation
Supply chain disruptions, like the one we are currently experiencing due to the COVID-19 Pandemic will continue to happen. Just look back over the last couple of years. We have had a major fire in China a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a volcan
Necessity is the Mother of Innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges around the world. In the midst of the seeming chaos many brilliant minds have been working in overdrive to develop innovative solutions to many of obstacles that lie in our way. Abbot recently
