It’s been a buzzword that’s been bandied about for a while and of course it’s a major focus of every Category Management model out there.  We’ve been talking about it for a looooong time ourselves so we’re as guilty as everyone else.  That doesn’t mean…

We were working with an international manufacturing client and still do occasionally, and we were asked to help them transition into Category Management (“CM”) which they had recently heard about.  This was a client that had recently made the move to Strategic Sourcing from 3…

COVID is not a topic that we want to do the typical ”we told you so”.  A recent headline though did catch my attention and I thought t was worth exploring it further.  “We got the biological science right, but we didn’t get the social…

Hope you all had a safe 4th of July holiday weekend, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our neighbors in Highland Park, IL who have suffered such a horrible loss. Now, back to this blog . . . . I wish I had…

We started introducing the concept of Response Lead time (RLT) in the early days of COVID when it was becoming clear that disruptions in supply chains were significant and were going to be long lasting. Of course, the continuation of COVID and its massive lockdowns,…