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Pricing is not the only thing that matters
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Packaged vs customized supply chain solutions
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A bad plan is better than none
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Understanding HOW makes the difference
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Learning from mistakes is costly in Supply Chain
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Changing vision leads to changing the Supply Chain
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Separating pricing and inventory planning
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The longer the lead time, the more extremes matter
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
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Using average forecast for decision-making
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RFP process focusing on the solution instead of the problem
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Proof of concept vs reality
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Forecasting accuracy hall of fame
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Mondays in Supply Chain Management
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In theory, S&OP balances out planning errors
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Easier does not always means better
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How many software products are needed for planning?
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Division of labor in supply chain
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Dolus Bonus: A vendor has the right to lie...
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When you want to discontinue planning module of an ERP
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Supply chain managers trying to do their work...
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Mathematical formulas can be both elegant and irrelevant
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Exaggerated planning is the most common cause of corporate death
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Groundbreaking innovations are seldom incremental
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Stock is stock - whatever you call it
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Lead time is also uncertain
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Bureaucracy: Doing something doesn't equal improving something
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Adequate decision policy is the way
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Supply chain is not about being right
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The right level of inventory is a questions of perspective
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Supply chains are living creatures that only stop evolving once they are dead
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Average demand never creates supply chain disruptions
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Let's assume your supply chain is a sphere...
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Ferris wheel of rolling demand planning
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Assume that your competitors aren't idiots...
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The goal of supply chain is not to fall
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Supply chain constraints eat demand forecast for breakfast
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Price elasticity depends on ambient price signals
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Demand doesn't fall from the sky
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Digital supply chains remain a material challenge
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Production of goods creates its own demand
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When you want to migrate your ERP
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Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion
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Supply chain is Excel all the way down
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There are no two supply chains that are identical
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Supply Chain World Structure
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The ‘need’ for a product is relative.
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The law of small numbers in supply chain, large numbers are made small again.
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When arrival rate exceeds service throughput, wait time becomes infinite.
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If demand suddenly increases, lead times do so as well!
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It’s easier to move the warehouse than to migrate the warehouse system.
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‘Outliers' are the standard in Supply Chain. 'When things go wrong, they go really wrong...
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