Author: Josh
Unlocking Value with Change Management & Planning with Katie Fowler
Katie Fowler details ways in which the process of change mangagement can lock in value and secure a company's long term growth patterns.
The Importance of Cross-Functional Skills in Supply Chain Management: Enhancing Supply Chain Collaboration
Discover the power of an agile supply chain: adapt quickly to consumer demands and stay ahead of the competition.
What’s going on with American Manufacturing?
Discover the power of an agile supply chain: adapt quickly to consumer demands and stay ahead of the competition.
Agile Supply Chain Explained
Discover the power of an agile supply chain: adapt quickly to consumer demands and stay ahead of the competition.
Innovative Employee Retention Strategies Include 4 Day Work Week
Introduction Competition for top tier talent continues to be an issue, especially in supply chain. Employers are striving for balance between attracting the best talent and using innovative employee retention strategies to fill out their org charts. Things like employee engagement are increased while employee turnover is reduced with these work-life balance and employee retention strategies. Since the world was turned upside down in 2020 with a Pandemic, there has been a back and forth between employee and an employer driven work world. In 2020, the pendulum started out in favor of employees as fully remote workplaces evolved out [...]
Price Bumps Turn to Brand Marketing for CPG Companies
Introduction Economic levers being pulled by manufacturing companies in 2024 involve marketing and volume plays. Companies don’t have the power to push prices like they did in 2020 and later. Those margins are now fixed. Unlike a lot of the tech world, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies don’t have the option really to reduce labor costs in any meaningful way to recoup margins without also compromising production. They have hence turned to investing these price hike profits in marketing to increase brand awareness. Supply chain pressures easing have allowed a lot more flexibility in how these organizations use their [...]
Channel Free Logistics Innovates Supply Chain’s Traditional Operations
Introduction According to Bill Thayer, “Logistics is the part of retail where you can truly be very collaborative.” Thayer’s company Fillogic has developed a process and practice he dubs “channel free logistics.” We talked to Thayer on our most recent podcast about how he developed this concept as well as how he came to learn about the importance of logistics practices in the effectiveness of retail operations. One thing we came away from was his insistence on the criticality of relationships and collaborations in creating more effective logistics modes. We also discuss how Fillogic has been able to engage [...]
