Lenovo – Global Culture and Supply Chain Excellence with Mick Jones
Listen as Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, as she interviews Mick Jones, VP of Global Logistics at Lenovo, as he talks about the onboarding and integrating the x86 supply chain from IBM. Mick discusses the 5 things that define us: the will to win, ability to fail successfully, the absolute focus […]
Inventory Management
Over the past decade, optimization capabilities in supply chain systems have evolved to improve outcomes; however, very few companies have been able to drive in both inventory and supply chain costs. As a result, we find in our research that nine out of ten companies are stuck at the intersection of inventory turns and operating […]
Supply Chain Centers of Excellence
Forty percent of companies have a supply chain center of excellence but only one third of them are successful. Our research is nearly done and we want to share with you some of the findings. Why you need one, how to get started, and how to make it successful. Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain […]
The Reshoring Initiative with Harry Moser
Listen to Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, as she discusses the Reshoring Initiative with Harry Moser as they look at manufacturing returning to the US, Mexico and Canada. Some of the key trends are foreign investment as well as having savings closer to the consumer. The biggest driver for bringing jobs […]
Hadoop and Unstructured Nonrelational Data with Dave Shuman of Cloudera
Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Dave Shuman, Senior Executive – Consumer Products & Retail SME, at Cloudera. Businesses need to first look at the core of their data and then how do they want to link the data. People need to stop thinking of structured versus unstructured data and start […]
The Long Tail of the Supply Chain with Robert Byrne of Terra Technology
Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Rob Byrne, CEO & Founder of Terra Technology, on the complexity of items and the long tail of the supply chain. Everyone wants to do SKU rationalization but appear to be surprised by what they find out. (Like 50% of products only represent 1% of […]
2015 New Year’s Resolutions with Joan Motsinger of Seagate
Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, asks Joan Motsinger, VP of Operations Strategy of Seagate, on her vision for 2015. Joan discusses how they have a vertical integrated supply chain and how they scale. She discusses how they are looking to model total landed cost. Risk management and security is a priority […]
2015 New Year’s Resolutions with Nancy Seleski and Dan Carlson of 3M
Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Dan Carlson, Manufacturing Director of 3M Minerals Division, and Nancy Seleski, Director of Supply Chain & Quality of 3M’s Industrial & Transportation Business, on their new year resolutions. “In looking at 2014, weather was a factor and you also need to look at the balance […]
2015 New Year’s Resolutions with Rick Davis of Kellogg
Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insight,s interviews Rick Davis, VP Business Planning of Kellogg Company, as they look at 2015. Rick looks at 2014 as a year of learning on insights and analytics. “Going forward we want to better understand trade effectiveness and analytics to get better. Analytics is about seeing the […]
2015 New Year’s Resolutions with Mady Bricco of DOW
You can hear Lora Cecere, CEO & Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interview Mady Bricco, Business Director of Dow Chemical on the challenges and vulnerabilities they had in 2014 to learn on how to mitigate their risks. They plan to continue their multiple year journey in 2015. She discusses how you need to think big […]