There is great news for the world – a number of COVID vaccines are going through the approval process and they all look promising. Creating a vaccine is merely the first challenge (even though the most critical) and now creating the supply chains to manufacture…
We have a lot of respect for the folks at Gartner, and they even include us in their magic quadrants for Supply Chain consulting which we greatly appreciate. While I missed their recent event, I did hear about it (Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities at…
First, I hope you, your family and your colleagues are staying healthy and safe. As Sourcing / Category Management / Supply Chain professionals we ARE playing the role of an internal consultant (whether we recognize it or not). To be effective in that role, we…
At the recent Procurement Executive Round Table (PERT) workshop, we tackled the topic of defining Response Lead Time (RLT) and you may remember that we started the work of defining that as a metric. A quick reminder – just like you are ensuring that your…
First, we hope you, your family and your colleagues are staying healthy and safe. I’m sure you looked at my title and thought “here is another blog, article, rant, etc. on talent management” and just to be clear it IS, and it ISN’T. If your…