I had to laugh at myself, when I heard a recent Rabbi sermon about being a better person by breaking out of your personal silo. Silo is a term we who have a career in supply chain/logistics hear a lot. … Read More
I recently attended the annual one day seminar of the CSCMP Chicago Roundtable. The key note address Dr. Jonathan Bryne, a senior lecture at MIT and yes, a supply chain consultant. The thesis he presented was that to be a … Read More
Complaining, you hear it during coffee breaks, at special events, and yes, of course, in the rest room. By nature, the supply chain/logistics affects many departments, many people, management and customers. With that many moving parts, something will be suboptimal. … Read More
I attended the opening day keynote at the Promat convention entitled: Building Supply Chain Sustainability for Competitive Advantage: Lessons learned from leaders in innovative facility design. I will focus what caught my attention below. For other details on the speakers … Read More
Customer Service is more than just about things; things such as omni-channel, data, warehouse choices and which transportation carrier to use. Supply Chain and Logistics is very people and organization centric. One can know all about the bells and whistles … Read More
One of the joys of career life is coming in contact with wonderful, competent, and caring people. In the logistics/supply chain there are plenty of those types. There also thieves, scumbags, and people who have a disagreeable personalities. Some times … Read More
Perhaps some of may have noticed that the political environment is getting a bit of chaotic out there, hell and hand basket type space. Those us in Supply Change and Logistics make our living trying to organize chaos in a … Read More
My last blog was how everybody in the supply chain can and should be a leader and a good one at that. We all know the opposite happens. It sure does! Poor leadership can result from poor practices, processes and … Read More
I volunteer at a food pantry and one day I asked the people there if in their career life they had ever had a good boss. None of the people I spoke to could remember even one good boss. When … Read More
In recent issue of Trains Magazine, there was a story about a regional railroad crew in the southeast United States. Enroute they would stop the train, feed an apple or some similar fruit to a mule who was always smart … Read More