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Dan Spatz

Back to the Future: Achieving Big Goals Begins with the Fundamentals
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Back to the Future: Achieving Big Goals Begins with the Fundamentals

After his workshop presentation with Snyder’s-Lance, the EP Team had an opportunity to talk with Dan Spatz one-on-one about some of the trends he is hearing about in the supply chain world. We asked him what supply chain executives should be thinking about today to get ready for the next five or ten years. While Dan heard a number of great achievements and lofty ambitions from the speakers at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series, he said the foundation for those successes were laid years ago. Today’s supply chain executives need to identify what they want to achieve and…

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Bucking Trends: Pursuing Business Improvement from the Demand and Detailed Perspectives
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Bucking Trends: Pursuing Business Improvement from the Demand and Detailed Perspectives

Rebecca Livingston of Synder’s-Lance and Dan Spatz of Oliver Wight delivered a joint-presentation at the 2016 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit entitled, “Bucking Trends: Pursuing Business Improvement from the Demand and Detailed Perspectives.” Many companies pursue S&OP or IBP as the launch point for business process transformation and improvement, but Snyder’s-Lance decided a demand-led, bottoms-up approach made more sense. This case study will discuss how they identified the key focal points of the initiative and the results to be delivered, as well as how the pursuit of integrating the business played into a long-term journey of transformation….

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