Since the advent of Social Media people like “Motivational Quote” as it gives them quick boost of self-confidence which can be found in a few simple words of wisdom. In this holiday and festive season I thought I should post something which is motivational. Therefore, I decided to research on Transportation quotes. I have started reading a…
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To build Supply Chain Strategy first it is important to revisit what is strategy in general. Max McKeown (2011) argues that “strategy is about shaping the future” and is the human attempt to get to “desirable ends with available means”, so regardless of the size of your business (SME or Large Corporation) or nature of…
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The underlying Supply Chain technical competencies are skills, knowledge and characteristics that support the effective performance as Supply Chain professional. Given the global Supply Chain demands Supply Chain professional should never stop developing new skills and enhancing existing ones. Here are 8 core supply chain competencies that Supply Chain professionals need to master and continually…
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Lot of Supply Chain and Procurement folks who are in early stage of their ask me should they go for CIPS or APICS qualification. Depending on their career aspiration to either grow in Supply Chain in general or become specialise procurement professional I give them advice accordingly. Like most good things in life there is…
Continue readingIn any Supply Chain Strategy it is important that Supply Chain Leaders should clearly define Supply Chain Mission, i.e. what they want their organisation and teams to delivery. In other words what is the value proposition of their Supply Chain strategy? Here is one good example! To provide a globally integrated Supply Chain solution…
Continue readingThere are a number of current trends and approaches that managers and practitioner of a supply chain may consider to achieve a competitive edge and Single Sourcing is one of them! There are always for and against arguments to have single source vs multiple source suppliers for a commodity. The current trend is towards adopting single…
Continue readingExcess & Obsolete Inventory is the term that refers to inventory that is at the end of its product life cycle and has not seen any sales or usage for a set period of time usually determined by the industry. This type of inventory has to be written down and can cause large losses…
Continue readingI have seen lot of Continuous Improvement (CI) Projects or Kaizen events started with lot of enthusiasm but more than often done badly, and then the whole enthusiasm fads away… Why does this happen? It happens mainly because project scope or problem statement is not defined clearly, or in other words it is unclear that…
Continue readingAnnual Supplier Conference is the only event that exclusively brings together senior directors from key suppliers, consultancies, contractors and subcontractors, equipment manufacturers and service providers of all sizes. Oct 10, 2015Muddassir
Continue readingThis blog review of Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP Implementation procedures and critical success factors. Now the ERP use is generally common in big corporations and even SME’s are using various available ERP packages. But not every company gets the return from using the ERP system. I have been part of 3 different ERP systems…
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