Home The Shaman’s Journal Supply Chain Shaman Where’S Lora? About Lora Contact October 5, 2018 0 L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence By Lora Cecere | customer-centric supply chains, Market-Driven, Supply chain excellence | No Comments François-Régis Le Tourneau leads the efforts at L’Oreal for Standards & Prospective Process Improvement. At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018, Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, and L’Oréal’s approach to business that has allowed the company to continuously rank as a Supply Chains to Admire winner for four consecutive years. The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of… Read More October 4, 2018 1 Five Reasons Why Are We Not Making Progress on Inventory Management By Lora Cecere | Demand, innovation, Inventory Management, Market-Driven | No Comments 90, then 80, followed by 76. The highway rolls ahead of me. There are endless mile markers. It is a long day. Today, I am cruising major freeways traveling from Chicago to my new home in Pennsylvania. Against my friends’ advice, I decided to drive to speak to 120 business leaders at the Gains Systems event. The rain delays through the summer soured me on air travel. The sun is… Read More September 24, 2018 0 Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection By Lora Cecere | Demand, demand driven, Digital Supply Chain, Global Supply Chains, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply chain excellence, Supply chain planning | No Comments Yowza: Excitement or approval Get a cup of coffee. This is a long post. <Bear with me….> Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. The genesis for this post stems from frustration. I get the same questions over-and-over again, and see companies making the same mistakes. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market… Read More September 14, 2018 2 Driving Transformational Change By Lora Cecere | Change Management | No Comments There are over 10,000 change management books on Amazon. The return of search on the site gives a list of endless titles. You might ask, “Why are so many people writing about change management?” Followed by, “Does anyone read the books? Why then is Lora writing about it?” These are all good questions. Background Three weeks ago, I attempted to put my life back together from a recent move. Each… Read More September 13, 2018 0 Florence Et Al. By Lora Cecere | Procurement, Risk management, Uncategorized | No Comments This morning the Washington Post rang. The reporter wanted to discuss the implications of Hurricane Florence. The question was simple, “What will be the impact of Hurricane Florence on the supply chain?” The answer is not so easy. The implications are far-reaching. Quite simply no one knows. North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. Each state has a rich manufacturing economy. The supply chain… Read More September 3, 2018 7 Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work By Lora Cecere | customer-centric supply chains, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain, Supply chain excellence, Supply Chain Leadership, Supply Chain Talent | No Comments It was not my goal; but by accident, it became my mission. At Supply Chain Insights, as we combed through over 9000 quantitative responses on supply chain management from business leaders to understand what drives supply chain excellence in preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. In the process, we proved Hau Lee’s theorem in the Famous Harvard Business Review Article, “Triple A Supply Chains.” Here is an excerpt… Read More August 16, 2018 0 Software Planning: Satisfaction is Like a Flip of a Coin By Lora Cecere | Supply chain planning | No Comments This week, after ten years, I am test-driving cars. I have not owned a car for a decade. City living has come to an end and it is time for me to get some wheels. Buying a car is overwhelming. I just want one that works. I find the process of negotiation, and comparison shopping tiring. My goal is safety and comfortability. It is hard to sort through the options. As… Read More August 10, 2018 4 How Supply Chain Lost Its Mojo By Lora Cecere | market-driven value chains, Market-driven value networks, New technologies | 2 Comments mo·jo: noun. A magic charm, talisman, or spell. “Someone must have their mojo working over at the record company.” In the 1990s supply chain had MOJO. Then it was sexy. Today, it is not. 90% of public manufacturing companies are treading water. There is a struggle. Improvement on the key metrics of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is elusive. Here I want to share a perspective… Read More August 7, 2018 1 Healthcare: A Call For Action By Lora Cecere | healthcare | One Comment In 1960, when I was in the first grade, healthcare spending was 5% of the US economy. Today, it is 17.9%. By 2025, the projection is 19.9%. Yowza! This is trillions of dollars. To put it into dollars and cents, health care spending rose 4.3% to $3.3 trillion in 2016, or a cost of $10,348 per person. Being a supply chain gal, I think that supply chain leaders can help…. Read More July 18, 2018 0 Be Careful What You Ask For By Lora Cecere | Global Supply Chains | One Comment Companies asked for integrated supply chain planning. They got it. It does not work so well. Now what? Sharing A Story Last week, I met a client for breakfast in Frankfurt. Let’s call her Sally. As a leader of a global supply chain organization, her goal was simple. She was trying to define and drive supply chain excellence. In the last year, she worked with three consulting companies. Each recommended… Read More 1 2 3 … 42 Next Stay Connected Follow Lora on Twitter Tweets by @lcecere About Lora Cecere Lora Cecere is the Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights , the research firm that's paving new directions in building thought-leading supply chain research. She is also the author of the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman. The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence. Her book, Bricks Matter, published in December of 2012. As an enterprise strategist, Lora focuses on the changing face of enterprise technologies. Her research is designed for the early adopter seeking first mover advantage. Current research topics include the digital consumer, supply chain sensing, demand shaping and revenue management, market-driven value networks, accelerating innovation through open design networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, emerging business intelligence solutions, and technologies to improve safe and secure product delivery. She comes to the stage with over thirty years of diverse supply chain experience. She spent nine years as an industry analyst with Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and is now the founder of her own firm Supply Chain Insights. Prior to becoming a supply chain analyst she spent fifteen years as a leader in the building of supply chain software at Manugistics and Descartes Systems Group, and twenty years as a supply chain practitioner at Procter & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, Clorox, and Dreyers Grand Ice Cream (now a division of Nestle). More about Supply Chain Shaman... 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About Lora Recent Podcast Episodes: Straight Talk With Laura B – Corning Company September 14, 2018 Lora cecere Insights From the 2018 Supply Chains to Admire Analysis June 26, 2018 Lora cecere Robotics and Warehouse Management with Jerome Dubois of 6 River Systems June 12, 2018 Lora cecere Five Reasons We Are Losing Ground on Inventory May 4, 2018 Lora cecere An Update on the Network of Networks May 2, 2018 Lora cecere Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles with Wes Guckert of The Traffic Group May 2, 2018 Lora cecere Aligning Flows Across Manufacturing: An Interview with LeanDNA’s Richard Lebovitz April 26, 2018 Lora cecere Building the Digital Supply Chain March 19, 2018 Lora cecere The Metrics That Matter and Supply Chain Excellence March 19, 2018 Lora cecere The Future of Collaborative Robotics with Jim Lawton of Rethink Robotics March 19, 2018 Lora cecere Tag Cloud Advanced Planning Systems (7) analytics (7) APS (8) Big Data (13) blockchain (8) bricks matter (8) consumer products (14) customer service (8) demand driven (23) demand planning (17) demand sensing (10) downstream data (7) e2open (9) ERP (13) forecasting (11) HANA (8) innovation (8) Internet of Things (8) inventory (9) inventory management (10) kinaxis (7) logility (8) market driven (10) Metrics That Matter (10) network of networks (8) Oracle (10) retail (10) risk management (7) S&OP (24) Sales and operations planning (30) SAP (28) sentiment analysis (7) supply chain (49) Supply chain excellence (153) Supply Chain Index (17) supply chain insights (60) Supply Chain Insights Global Summit (15) Supply Chain Leadership (9) supply chain management (55) Supply chain planning (47) Supply Chains to Admire (13) supply chain talent (13) supply chain visibility (8) Terra Technology (10) value networks (12) © 2018 Supply Chain Shaman. 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