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Building Competitive Advantage as Companies Localize and Regionalize Their Supply Chain Network

July 6, 2023

If you spend your career in any specific field, you will see themes and trends and moods and styles and eras come and go over the course of your working life that are defined by a single issue or pressure or innovation that shapes everything else you do for a time. Supply Chain professionals are no different, and right now as we come out the far side of a pandemic, we are in an extended moment where frequent disruptions of all shapes and sizes are now accepted as a business norm, and all anyone wants to talk about is building…

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EUSCES23 in a Nutshell

June 22, 2023

Executive Platforms’ first European Supply Chain Executive Summit ran June 19-21, 2023 at the Melia Sitges a short drive outside Barcelona on the beautiful Spanish coast of the Mediterranean. It was attended by 215 delegates, speakers, sponsor representatives, and guests from more than 150 different companies and organizations. The agenda included more than 35 keynotes, case studies, workshops, themed lunch discussions, focus groups, and more. Early feedback has been universally positive, and work is already underway to build upon this success and make next year’s summit even bigger and better. That is the shortest overview we can offer of the…

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The Career Path of a Senior Supply Chain Executive

March 9, 2023

I imagine a lot of people who read this blog series also listen to our podcast series. There is a lot of connective tissue between the two in terms of content and intended audience, and of course much of what I talk about there will influence what I write here. Today I want to share something great that came up during a prep call for a future podcast interview. Now I was not recording the conversation, but this is less about quoting someone and more about walking through a way of visualizing and thinking about something that I found really…

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Supply Chain Jargon for the Supply Chain Adjacent

February 23, 2023

Every business that buys something, sells something, or moves something has a supply chain organization. The people who spend their working lives making things arrive where and when they are needed in the quantity and quality expected are professionals, and like most professions they have developed their own vocabulary for what they are doing and what they are thinking. Today’s blog post is not for those people. For most of my columns I try to write for as many of the people in Executive Platforms’ network as possible, and supply chain leaders are probably the single largest demographic who engage…

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