item that has always stood out as a MAJOR necessity is the very important combination of “hard” and “soft” skills to effectively manage in an unpredictable commercial environment.
“Supply chain and Operations analytical skills covering Forecasting, Production Control,...
Having worked in Supply Chain for more than 25 years and in particular with Production planners, I have always seen this group of specialist as one of the busiest groups and always under a lot of stress.
Earlier this year I was involved in a talk with a conglomerate on inventory management and processes on how we can bring inventory levels down. Not surprisingly the forecasts or rather the inaccuracy of forecasts was a big bone of contention for all the participants an...
The World Scholar's Cup is an international academic decathlon, in which students compete in four events, one of them being team debate, and qualify from a local round to one of three Global Rounds.
The Global Round for the Asian continent was in Hanoi for this year.
I have always looked at supply chain as a series of activities starting from forecasting, and all the way through customer order release & execution, procurement, inventory management, performance management, and finally through to warehousing and distribution to end...
