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March 31, 2021
Plethora of Courses in SCM – Who are They Suitable For?
From the questions we receive online, and in lectures and speeches, there seems to be some confusion about the plethora of courses and course providers in SCM.In particular, most questions refer to the intended target market of these course providers. In response to these types of questions , we try and distinguish between Business-As-Usual (BAU) roles […]
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Certificates In Supply Chain Management That Are Widely Acceptable
We get many emails from younger generation asking what kind of certificates in SCM are widely accepted. The intention of the asker is to find that one certificate that will we a ticket to a lucrative job in the SCM field. We attempt to answer this common question below:This is a very tricky question to […]
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Common Online Courses in Supply Chain Management
A lot has changed over the last 21 years since we started Global Supply Chain Group. There has been a boom of knowledge sharing online - most of it quite positive. Supply chain management itself has gone from being an obscure and esoteric subject to a popular and fast growing discipline.Now we get a lot […]
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March 24, 2021
Finance, Sales, HR, Supply Chain – Where Do Most Effective Business Transformation Leaders Come From?
Business Transformation is Different Than Change ManagementAlmost everybody who has anything to do with creating any change inside a company calls himself or herself a business transformation expert these days. It is important to define business transformation at the outset. As the business trends evolve, every ten years to so a new generation of business is configured […]
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Why Does Sales and Operation End Up Being Such A Frustrating Experience In Real Life?
What Is Sales And Operations Planning (S & OP), And What Is Its Significance In Supply Chain Management? In any company sales department or function goes about selling whatever it can sell to whosoever is ready and willing to buy (more or less).On the other hand, simplistically speaking, the production department of function goes about […]
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March 21, 2021
Growing Trust Deficit in Global Supply Chains Due to COVID-19
There are two reasons why this is not going to be a BIG headline in the mainstream press for at least three months yet (but, after that, once the word is out every mainstream outlet will scream about it as if it is the latest news): Supply chain staff is not made up of screamers (though […]
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March 20, 2021
What Happens When You Exhaust All Three Consulting Lifelines
What happens when three lifelines are spent?If you have watched the globally famous TV show, Who wants to be a millionaire? you will have known what the three lifelines are in this game. It is not much different in a business context. Rob knew his company was in trouble and had been brewing for a while. […]
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March 17, 2021
March 16, 2021
Why Good Business Executives Make Bad Business Consultants and Vice Versa
If you have been a senior executive in the corporate circles for just a few years, you already know the truth about this great fight endemic in consulting circles. Professional consultants are trained in logicIn one corner you have professional strategy consultants - people who join large consulting firms straight out of university. They are generally […]
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March 14, 2021
Logistics, Procurement, Production Planning, Warehousing, Transportation – Where Do The Most Effective Supply Chain Leaders Come From?
This blogpost is likely to be controversial because it will likely make almost every reader unhappy at some point. Why? Because I am setting out to answer a question I encounter many times in my work - what kind of background makes the best supply chain professionals in the corporate circles. Let us first start with an assumption […]
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