Dateline Wall Street: Have you Seen Your Inventory Bottom Line Lately?

What happens when credit markets squeeze companies? How does it impact the supply chain?
Big Time.

When credit was cheap, inventory didn’t cost just as much. Now, inventory costs have increased due to the added cost of borrowing. In financial terms, it just got a whole lot tougher to manage working capital. Executives are […]

Commercial Paper & Treasury Markets Impact on Supply Chain Performance

Every day treasurers and treasury departments look at their cash positions and, based upon what they need to do this week or this month (if they need cash), they go to the commercial paper market and ask to borrow, say $900,000 (for the day or week).
In exchange (as this is a loan) they pay […]

Boiling the Ocean: Just Another Way to Create Permanent Employment for Your Supply Chain Strategy Consultant

I know we spend a lot of time discussing our work around JDA Supply Chain Training. Hey, we’re just trying to tell the world what we do!!However, the reason that we’re able to provide, what I believe to be a strong set of training templates is due to one reason — we know what it […]

Performance Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

I am not sure if we should call this “organizational heredity” or some other term.  Regardless, we have found that when we have two populations of users to train; (1) supervisors and (2) the employees for whom the supervisor is responsible, we observe a interesting but consistent phenomenon.  Here is how it goes…
As part of […]