Tag: Iron Triangle
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Move from Chaos to Clarity: Define Your Supply Chain’s Top Metrics
Since it’s still January, we’re right in the thick of Metrics Season. Traditionally this is the season where we measure everything, take a look at our upcoming year, and then decide to measure everything we measured last year and also add a few more. While today we’re talking about supply chain metrics, I’m also telling… Read more
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The Art of Good Bureaucracy: Insights from Pop Culture and Supply Chain Management
There is an episode of the TV show “Archer” that always crosses my mind when I think of bureaucracy. In this scene (season 12 episode 7), the character Cyril Figgis is trying to infiltrate an enemy spy agency. He tells his partner he will get them past the guard, and the following conversation ensues: Cyril:… Read more
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How a Supply Chain Geek Sources a Live Christmas Tree
Because this week is Christmas and this post will publish on Christmas Eve, let’s talk about sourcing a live Christmas tree as a supply chain professional. Now, true to form, this post is coming too late to do anything about it this year, which is appropriate for the topic. We’re always getting requests to purchase… Read more
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Contract Negotiation Deep Dive: Contract Exhibits
Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and cannot give legal advice. This series is from a supply chain practitioner’s perspective on negotiating contracts and is simply offering my perspective on common contract clauses. Seek professional legal advice for your own contracts. In our continuing series on contract clauses from a supply chain perspective, last week… Read more
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Demystifying Supply Chain: The Essential Roles of Procurement, Logistics & Warehousing
What is the difference between “supply chain” and “procurement”? One of my favorite silver linings after COVID is that when people ask me what I do, I now answer “Supply chain” and they reply, “You’re the people who get us toilet paper!” Or sometimes I can see them simply thinking it. Yes, we get you… Read more
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C-Suite Smackdown: Where Should Your Supply Chain Leader Report?
An experienced executive and mentor of mine once told me, “Every org chart fixes some problems and creates others.” I saw this happen firsthand when I was the leader of a 150-person team, with members from multiple businesses within a conglomerate company. The discussion of that organization and centralized vs. non-centralized supply chain is for… Read more
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Mastering the Supply Chain Triad: Delivering Excellence in Delivery, Savings, and Efficiency
How often do you hear or think of the old adage “You can have it fast, you can have it good, you can have it cheap: pick two”? Do you think it’s true? In supply chain, the variation on this “iron triangle” is the conflict between the priorities of Delivery, Savings, and Efficiency. This article… Read more