How often have we seen management initiate change with great enthusiasm and expectation and then passively manage the process to a failed outcome? A leader’s capability to manage change is often the determining factor behind a successful processes implementation. Without good change management, our business speed initiatives are doomed to fail.

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Some thoughts on a few time-tested ways to capture un-fulfilled parts of your demand curve.

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It's not all bad news in manufacturing.  I recently touched base with one of my prior manufacturing clients and got some great news.

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A recent article by Rene Jones in Supply and Demand Chain Executive provided some key warehouse KPI's that I found interesting. 

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A recent article in Supply Chain Digest made an excellent point about the lean manufacturing process:
It pointed out that Toyota, the long-term flagship and ‘inventor’ of the lean process, was not working in a totally lean environment because they carried an implied inventory that resides outside their company.

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A focus on the lowest price as a reason to off-shore manufacturing is a riskly proposition especially if you may undermine quality.

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The most basic reason for outsourcing to China, cost savings, is being challenged by the reality of today's global economy.  A recent article in Industry Week raises some interesting questions.

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On Monday, March 10 the Commerce Department reported that sales at U.S. wholesalers rose at the fastest pace in nearly four years in January, helping them to work down their inventories. 

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A recent article in E-Commerce Times outlines the order fulfillment hurdles specific to the e-commerce industry and poses some interesting solutions, incorporating robotic search dogs and futuristic optimization algorithms.

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I was recently perusing the web and looked into one of the most widely recognized software as a service applications Salesforce.com. 

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