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Monday, March 4, 2024 · Larry Lapide
Supply chain managers working with sales and marketing can ensure products in demand match with available supply to maximize profits.
Thursday, January 4, 2024 · Larry Lapide
It will always be prudent to reduce the use of carbon-based energy sources by making your supply chains as energy-efficient as possible.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 · Larry Lapide
As the industrialized world gets older, there is a lot of potential in developing products for older populations. This will have profound implications for both future global demand and supply (especially with regard to looming labor shortages).
Monday, July 3, 2023 · Larry Lapide
If you are doing planning for the supply needs of an installed base, the Pot of Water model may help develop more accurate plans.
Monday, May 1, 2023 · Larry Lapide
The recent column discussed how global policymakers have been relatively ineffective in using diplomacy to come up with a coordinated plan toward a world free of fossil fuels.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023 · Larry Lapide
Strategic planning and quick response (QR) processes are strategically focused. Therefore, both processes have to be directed by someone from the executive suite because the risks are too high vis-a-vis those taken during the SOE and S&OP processes.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 · Larry Lapide
Executives should be educated to have a healthy respect for inventory so that managers won’t have to go overboard and throw bad inventory after good.
Thursday, September 1, 2022 · Larry Lapide
Looking over the news from the last two years, it’s clear that the e-tailing market grew faster during the pandemic. In general, retailers have had to alter their supply and demand operations under the adverse conditions it caused.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 · Larry Lapide
Prior to the pandemic, global supply chains had evolved toward being optimized, largely cost-effective and efficient vis a vis responsiveness.
Monday, May 2, 2022 · Larry Lapide
The probabilities of uncertain futures are inestimable. Hence, one can’t use traditional decision making (DM)
