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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Supply Chain Improvement Tools As most of the supply chain folks have faced varying degree of supply chain issues, I thought it would be useful to share some of the supply chain Improvement tools I have used over the years to resolve recurring supply chain issues. Intensive competition, fast technological change, and shortened product life…
Continue readingWhat is Supplier Development? The Term Supplier Development has been used since many decades, however, the scope of the definition was not presented. During my research in Lancaster University Management School, myself and my supervisor believe that there is appetite for update definition, which is presented in this blog post. According to Krause et al.…
Continue readingManagers, academics, students, professionals and practitioners of Supply Chain Management require ready access to a definitive source of current terminology and practice. Over the years I have gathered the most up-to-date glossary of Supply Chain Management terms, concepts and definitions relevant to the subject, which I hope you will find it useful. Salient features of…
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