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By Gene Tanski September 01, 2010
Beer Distribution is an interesting business: High margin, protected by regulation that has traditionally limited most forms of competition, which leads to an overall lack...
By Gene Tanski July 19, 2010
Offering some comment and reaction to supply chain, forecasting and demand planning blog posts that caught my eye in recent months. In April, Jonathon Karelse,...
By Gene Tanski June 24, 2010
I had the pleasure of speaking with supply chain VP Noha Tohamy of Gartner/AMR Research recently. We were discussing exotic new taxonomies of demand forecasting...
By Gene Tanski June 15, 2010
I recently happened across this post on Ashish Mendiratta’s Supply Chain Edge blog that touched a few nerves. We spend a lot of time overcoming...
By Gene Tanski May 14, 2010
With forecasting, it’s easy to get carried away with the technical, the theoretical, or just plain get lost in the weeds. I often see practitioners...
By Gene Tanski April 30, 2010
Major technology implementations are significant investments: money, people taken away from their day jobs, and opportunity costs. With all that at stake, why is there...
By Gene Tanski April 29, 2010
One recent morning as I was dropping off my kids at their regular 4:45 a.m. swim practice, I was really struck by it: here were...
By Gene Tanski April 28, 2010
Business cases, ROI, improved performance – all are nifty catch phrases used to justify investments in people, equipment and software. But what is the value?...
By Gene Tanski April 27, 2010
Cloud computing/SaaS ascendancy—used as interchangeable terms in some conversations—picked up lots of media steam last year and continues to be the hot topic of 2010....
By Gene Tanski April 23, 2010
A few months ago, I wrote about IT and the competitive disadvantages inherent in an ERP approach. The short version: one-vendor suites are not a...
By Gene Tanski April 22, 2010
Just finished reading a WSJ article about 50 high-potential, venture-backed firms. Good article and good companies. However, this got me thinking: Why focus on venture-backed...
