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Is Lack of Real-Time Global Data Threatening Your Ability to Service Your Customers?
So you’ve just learned that there’s good news… and there’s bad news. First, the good news: your sales for a specialty item manufactured in-house are through the roof. In fact, they’re way over forecast. Now, the bad news. You’re short on production orders. And raw... read more
Supply Chain 4.0 enabling the Digital Enterprise and Industry 4.0
The real value of the “Digital Enterprise” movement & Industry 4.0 can only be realized unless it is encompassed and orchestrated by parallel automation/Digitization of the ‘Supply Chain’ delivery mechanism. “Global supply chain... read more
The World is Flattening – Let’s Get Moving!
Global flattening and the exponential advances in technology are revolutionizing the way we live and do business! This is an era where mind boggling advances in a new digital infrastructure, changes in public policy and the effects of globalization are enabling... read more
The Refrain is the Same: Can You See Me Now?
Every year there are several surveys asking supply chain executives to rank the challenges they face. And, for as long as I can remember, supply chain visibility ranks at or near the top. This year’s reincarnation of the control tower metaphor is being applied to... read more
Responsibility Lies with Leaders
First published in the April 2012 edition of the Lean Management Journal (LMJ) and republished here with permission. When it comes to sustainably and profitably growing an organisation in the face of changing market conditions, Roddy Martin identifies various... read more
Collaborative Supplier Relationships – Best Practices
Collaboration with business partners can yield significant benefits including increased supply assurance, reduction in latency and lower inventory levels, faster product innovation cycles, increased flexibility to respond to change and increased revenue. While the... read more
2015 Supplier Collaboration Requirements
Business Is Changing – FAST In today’s fast-moving and highly interdependent global marketplace, companies are increasingly reliant on complex networks of trading partners, suppliers and outsource service providers to succeed. How effective they are at... read more
21st Century Health Care Value Chain Improvement Opportunities
Health Value Chain participants (Medical materials and device manufacturers, traditional and biologic drug producers, their distributors and the healthcare systems that use them), struggle with opaque and inefficient value chains. These can stretch across 5 or more... read more
Ferrari Group Backs Vecco
We’re happy to share a recent post on Supply Chain Matters, written by Bob Ferrari, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group: “When I was an industry analyst at AMR Research covering the supply chain planning area, I had the opportunity to evaluate and... read more
Benefits of Vecco Control Tower in Life Sciences – Part 5
Supply Chain Event Management Scenario Name: Supply Chain Event Management Industry Segment: Drug, testing supply and medical device manufacturing companies with a strong need for: Dynamic detection, analysis and resolution of a broad range of business problems along... read more
Benefits of Vecco Control Tower in Life Sciences – Part 4
Product Fulfillment Improvement in a Multi-tier Distribution Environment Scenario Name: Collaborative fulfillment improvement Industry Segment: Companies manufacturing make-to-stock products that are distributed though a multi-tier network. Capital intensive... read more
Benefits of Vecco Control Tower in Life Sciences – Part 3
New Customer Capture enabled by End to End Value Chain Collaboration Scenario Name: End to End Supply Chain Collaboration Department(s): Supply Chain, Procurement, Planning, IT, Account Managers User: Buyers, Supply Managers, Operations and Fulfillment Planners, Sales... read more
Benefits of Vecco Control Tower in Life Sciences – Part 2
International Licensee Royalty and Service Performance Compliance Scenario: A brand owner licenses production of certain of its major over the counter medicine brands to foreign manufacturers. It is to be paid royalties on the volume of medicine. However, the brand... read more