November 30, 2006
Supply chain metrics
There's a post over at beyondthemba entitled " Supply Chain Metrics ."
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Randy Littleson assumed the role of Vice President, Marketing for Kinaxis in July 2003. Randy's strengths in building winning marketing strategies that translate end user requirements and market demand into the final product, have enabled him to create successful marketing teams throughout his more than 15 years in the industry. Prior to joining Kinaxis, Randy served as Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Interface Software, where he led the company's product marketing strategies, as well as all marketing communications and business development initiatives. Previously, Randy was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Spyglass, Inc., a provider of strategic Internet consulting, software, and services for the information appliance market. He played a critical role in repositioning Spyglass from the PC technology space to the embedded software market. During his tenure at Spyglass, Randy helped build growth revenues from $0M to $50M/yr. run rate in embedded software and services in less than four years. At Spyglass Randy led product development, professional services, business development and strategic marketing, as well as the integration efforts with OpenTV Corp., who subsequently acquired the company. He has also held various management positions at Palindrome Corporation, a Seagate Software company, Novell, Inc., and Unisys Corporation. Randy earned an M.B.A. from the Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Computer Sciences and Communications from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Entries in the archive
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November 5, 2006
Supply chains lack integration
Enterprise Applications
According to an IndustryWeek article entitled " Census Of Manufacturers: Too Many Supply Chains Are Failing To Integrate ", as supply chains lengthen globally, companies need to focus on tying together their suppliers and customers. Yet, too many companies are outsourcing their manufacturing whle ignoring the need to integrate the supply network into a cohesive whole.
October 25, 2006
Globalization increases supply chain risk
Enterprise Applications / general news
SupplyChainer.com has an article that references research by Accenture and an article by InformationWeek regarding supply chain risk. The post talks about the increasing risk caused by globalization.
October 20, 2006
Demand management - it's the talk of the town
Enterprise Applications / general news
We just completed our Kinexions '06 conference and had in attendance some of the world's leading brand owners and contract manufacturers. We talked about a wide variety of themes - challenges in dealing with new product introductions amidst ever shortening product lifecycles, the challenges of managing increasingly outsourced supply chains, etc. But the number one theme that we continued to hear f...
October 13, 2006
Technology Forecasters, Inc. predicts continued growth in outsourcing
Enterprise Applications
Technology Forecasters, Inc. (TFI) is predicting continued growth in outsourcing via their updated five year forecast. According to a release they just put out, TFI estimates that total outsourcing is projected to grow from just over $200 billion in 2005 to nearly $380 billion by 2010.
October 10, 2006
Interplanetary Supply Chain Management
Enterprise Applications / general news
I found this quite interesting. MIT's Space Logistics Center is kicking off a project where "the overall objective of this project is to develop an integrated capability for guiding the development of the interplanetary supply chain that will be required to enable sustainable space exploration of the Earth-Moon-Mars system and beyond."
August 10, 2006
In search of operational excellence
best practices / Enterprise Applications
There's an interesting article at Optimize Magazine enttiled " The CIO As Business Predictor. " It talks quite a bit about the uncertainties prevelant in business today, something I've talked about frequently here.
July 24, 2006
Supply risk management
best practices / Enterprise Applications
There's a series of good articles on supply risk management over at e-Sourcing Forum . The articles define supply chain risk and a series of strategies for identifying and proactively managing risk. There are three articles:
July 13, 2006
Who's accountable?
best practices / Enterprise Applications
I heard an executive at a brand owner speak recently about their business evolving toward an increasingly outsourced business model. They are now utilizing various component suppliers and contract manufacturers (EMS providers) to do the bulk of their manufacturing. When asked about accountability for delivery times and other key supply chain/manufacturing metrics, the person responded "that's the ...
June 15, 2006
ARC sees 8.6% annual growth in supply chain management market
Enterprise Applications / general news
ARC has released their views on the growth of the supply chain management (SCM) marketplace where they expect to see 8.6% annual growth.
June 5, 2006
Leading companies speak out on the need for supply chain visibility and response
Enterprise Applications
At the recent AMR Supply Chain Executive Conference (see summary here ), many of the world's leading companies spoke out on the need for supply chain visibility and the ability to sense and respond to change. In particular:
June 5, 2006
Do right and do well
Enterprise Applications
I attended AMR's annual Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last week where it was about 110 degrees each day! I've been to quite a few AMR conferences now, but this one was quite different. The theme of the event was "Making money and saving the world."