Supply Chain Segmentation – The Next Step in Delivering What you Promise in Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is different from traditional marketing. Customers now hold you to what you promise in your marketing message. You have to be careful that you can deliver what your promise. Supply Chain Segmentation is only answer to the dilemma.
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS (Part 5 of 6)
As you can see, supply chain 3.0 is for everyone, small and big companies. Now let me demonstrate the concrete benefits of having supply chain 3.0 and I promise these are not dull or irrelevant stories. Supply Chain 3.0 helps leverage your business Infrastructure Over the past several decades, both the global economy as well as the […]
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS
About Supply Chain 3.0 In this series, I will address the second question raised at the start of the previous blog series – “What are the benefits of supply chain 3.0?” Before answering that question, let me go over the three type of responses I generally get when I explain to people that supply chain 3.0 is real. Most of […]
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS (Part 4 of 6)
Supply Chain Metaphors I hope by now you have grasped the business model in which Supply Chain 3.0 resides. Before we examine all the concrete benefits of Supply Chain 3.0, let us briefly differentiate it from its predecessors. Table 1 sets out to do that: Table 1 – Supply Chain Metaphors Supply […]
Apple’s Business strategy To Dump Samsung or not-vivek sood
Has Apple Learnt the Lesson That Dell Never Learnt? | Business Strategy Apple has grappled with this conundrum for a while now – when, if at all, to dump Samsung? There comes a point in every business network when the erstwhile suppliers become more powerful than the ‘customer’. Dell continued to rely on its suppliers […]
Optimising What? Why Business Transformations Fail?
Business Transformations of Supply Chain Optimisation has always been a hot topic for strategists and business transformations executives. Now, as the mantle for leading corporations is moving from strategists to the integrationists and supply chain leaders – optimisation is hotter than ever before. When discussing business transformations, in my workshops, presentations and speeches, in particular I […]
How Good is Your Supply Chain Optimisation? | vivek sood
About Supply Chain optimisation System demos are tedious things at best. The developers are trying to showcase the best aspects of their baby in best possible light. They have spent months, sometimes years, thinking about and developing functionality. It is really a big ask to show off the usefulness of it all, in half an […]
Uses and misuses of benchmarks in supply chain management SCM
Speech of Supply Chain Management SCM There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli About More Supply Chain Management SCM Benchmarks are a peculiarly virulent form of statistics which can be used to make a positive change, or misused to make a dodgy sale. On one hand a benchmark, such as a world record […]
The Last Miles of Amazon – vivek sood
Amazon Business A false-color satellite photograph of the Amazon River in Brazil. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Rivers become amazingly complex in their last few miles. If you have not yet done that try and navigate the Amazon delta from the sea up the river – it is an enlightening experience. As a former ships master, I […]
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW (Part 3 of 3)
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW (Part 3 of 3) About Supply Chain 3.0 In the last entry, I have talked about the first two pillars underpinning Supply Chain 3.0. So, what are the other three key cornerstones? Transaction Optimisation Profitability (TOP) measures the ability to simultaneously minimize the costs, and maximize the revenues […]
