How Far Would You Go To Make Your Supply Chain More Secure?

Let's start with a story illustrating how supply chain security irrevocably altered the fortunes of a company that was global leader in a very popular consumer electronics industry. A High Profile IndustryThis story is in public

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How To Choose The Best Consultants For Your Project

I came across a startling statistics which prompted a new line of thinking that I wanted to share - hence this article. Consider these statistics - over 70% of professionals would have worked as a consultant,

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What is the Most Effective Strategy to Massively Slash Shipping Freight Costs?

Freight costs reduction is almost always the last frontier in the cost reduction landscape. At the board level, most companies do not pay much attention to their external freight costs. These costs never get the attention

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Unique Supply Chain Challenges of Oil & Gas Industry

One of the common problems cited by the boards and senior management is that the consultants they hire do not understand their unique challenges. This problem applies even more to large cookie cutter approach based consulting

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Amazon spent $28B in freight costs last year. How well are they using their advantage?

Someone asked me this question on a popular social platform. The subtext was this:What kind of discount do you think they've negotiated with the major carriers (UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc.)? I have over 12 years of

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Opportunities for Start-ups in Supply Chain Security

People often wonder where the best opportunities for start-ups are. Supply Chain Security space is getting a lot of attention in this regard. In fact, just today someone asked me on a popular platform about opportunities

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What We Can Learn About Supply Chain Security From One of the Shrewdest Pivots In Business History

Here is a story of the fire than tipped the balance within an industry.Two stalwarts in the mobile phone industry in March 2000 were equally impacted by the same event - a lightning fire in the

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How Supply Chain Strategy Can Help You Resolve The Innovators’ Conundrum

This is a million dollar question for most companies - start-ups or conglomerates. A lot of time and money is wasted either because the companies do not bother to ask this question in time, or try

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The Trouble With Supply Chain Security

I know that Supply Chain Security is not the top of mind of anyone. Least of all for people who are so busy all day, every day that they barely have time to take a meal

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Never Hire Management Consultants In These Situations

I need to tell a true story which is about 16 years old. Jon had just left the secure world of a senior role in a multi-billion dollar global corporation to accept the role of the

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