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Defining Outside-in Supply Chain Planning Processes: Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights Interviews John Sicard, CEO of Kinaxis An order is a poor proxy for demand. A market-driven forecast always beats a forecast based on enterprise data. New forms of technology enable the redefinition of supply chain planning to transition from inside-out to outside-in planning processes. The question...

The use of graph technology offers promise to map relationships, translate flow, and improve time to value. However, most solutions today are not built on a graph. So, how can companies get value from the graph approach without re-wiring their current systems? Here, Pat Byrne, Founder of Indeco, explains a point of view on how to get started with Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. Tags...

What is supply chain excellence? It is easier to say than define. Supply Chain Excellence is defined as driving improvement, outperforming the peer group, and driving value. This analysis analyzes over 500 companies' progress over the last ten years. Here, we share the insights on the methodology and compare it to the Gartner Top 25 approach. Tags: supply chain excellence, supply chain insights, s...

In this podcast, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Igor Rikalo, Chief Operating Officer of o9 Solutions. The goal is to share thoughts on the power of outside-in processes and use the knowledge graph to deliver insights on flow to drive better outcomes.

Discussion of Network Resource Planning with Bharath from Tracelink. Using a network built for serialization, Tracelink is launching a series of services to help pharmaceutical manufacturers sense potential drug shortages and redesign their networks to drive better patient outcomes. Here we share a discussion between Bharath and Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights. Tags: Tracelink, Suppl...

With the rise in variability, safety stock increases in importance as a buffer. However, in recent research, we find that 90% of companies do not measure inventory helth or include supply variablity in the calculation of safety stock. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews Johnathan Colehower, Partner of UST to gain his insights on the gap and potential solutions. UST, inven...

Lora Cecere presents insights on Supply Chain 2030 and how to prepare through building resilience at the National Association of Manufacturing, MLC conference. Tags: Supply Chain Insights, #NAM, #MFG2030, Supply chain excellence, manufacturing excellence, Lora Cecere Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence

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Lora Cecere speaking at NAM (National Association of Manufacturing) in September 2023 on supply chain resilience. Supply chain, supply chain global summit, digital transformation, change transformation, supply chain excellence, supply chain excellence, supply chain insights, lora cecere, National Association of Manufacturing, NAM

Outside-in planning requires unlearning. Traditional work processes become obsolete as companies embrace outside-in data and processes. Here, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews Fred Baumann, on his experience with testing the outside-in concepts. He shares his key unlearnings along with his learning.

Inventory grew an average of 30 days across industries over the last decade. This is despite the investment in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning (APS). What happened? What steps should people take? Tune in to gain insights from Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights.

Data abounds within the enterprise, but 80% of data is not used. One of the reasons is that today’s processes are inside-out no outside-in. How can we use market data to improve decision making market-to-market. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.

One of the critical elements of enterprise resilience and customer reliability is organizational alignment, but the gap grew three-fold over the last decade. How did this happen? What should be done to drive improvement. Here Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights shares her perspective.

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah & Lora Cecere Wrap-Up

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Hannah Kain - ALOM

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah Talks with Jenny Patzlaff

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Academics with Jenny Patzlaff, University of WI

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Lora Cecere Opening Session

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 8 - Sarah, Alex & Christine Barnhart

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Lora Cecere

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Jonathan, Deanna Denton

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Project Zebra with Lora, Nicole, LKQ and Deanna

Supply Chain Insights Virtual Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Sarah, Alex and Brett Barnello

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - Discrete Event Simulation with Brett Barnello

Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2022 - Sept 7 - The Benefits of Digitization - Ryan Inoyue