by Rob O'Byrne | Feb 18, 2022 | Articles, Inventory, Inventory - S&OP, People, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management
In the late summer of 2020, I was honoured with the opportunity to interview supply chain guru Deborah Dull, not just once, but three times. While all the interviews are available to view on the Supply Chain Secrets YouTube channel, I decided to create some brief...
by Rob O'Byrne | Dec 24, 2021 | Articles, Business Improvement, Inventory - S&OP, Performance Measurement - KPIs, Supply Chain KPIs
Every article we publish covering logistics and supply chain KPIs piques our website visitors’ interest and receives a wealth of positive feedback. In addition, those articles inevitably stimulate readers to post questions, which, over time, we try to answer in...
by Rob O'Byrne | Oct 15, 2021 | Articles, Cost Saving, Cost to Serve, COVID-19, eCommerce, Inventory - S&OP, Logistics, Supply Chain
Is your ecommerce business one of those that’s been growing steadily in recent years, and seen an absolute boom since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged? If so, your enterprise’s good fortunes are probably tempered by the challenges of meeting unprecedented demand for your...
by Rob O'Byrne | May 28, 2021 | Articles, Inventory - S&OP, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management
Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?” Not that it was ever an easy question to answer, but the Coronavirus crisis has perhaps...
by Rob O'Byrne | Mar 2, 2021 | Benchmarking, Cost to Serve, Customer Service, Distribution Network Design, Inventory - S&OP, Logistics Bureau Videos, Supply Chain, Transport, Trends, Videos - Other, Videos-SCM
Suppose you want to fix up your supply chain business and make the whole thing more efficient. What do you think you need to work on specifically? Watch the video below as we take you to the 5 Areas of Supply Chain—that if you focus on, you would likely get the...
by Rob O'Byrne | Nov 27, 2020 | Articles, Inventory - S&OP, Supply Chain
Three rules are really important in inventory management. If you don’t get them right, you won’t be able to do a lot of other things. They are foundations in a way. Let’s examine each one in turn, likening it to commandment that shall free you from...
