Why Top 2022 Innovation is Availability?

Yes. 2022 most innovative idea is not coming from aerospace, or new drugs discovery. It’s as simple as that. Availability. Having your product accessible on the shelves and supporting sales. But Why? There are mainly 3 factors. Uncertainty led by pandemic, war threats, and sloppy central bank monetary policies; All these have completely destroyed companies predictions. Forecast accuracy is not a priority anymore. Instead, best … Continue reading Why Top 2022 Innovation is Availability?

The Supply Chainer Report®February 5, 2022January 23, 2023Leave a comment

BioPharma, Forecasting, Inventory, Stock, Supply Chain

OverStocksis. A Dangerous Infectious Disease

Manage Excess Inventory is the panacea for every Supply Chain professional. According to McKinsey Global Survey of challenges ahead for supply chain; Reducing Operating costs and Inventory levels, are the main goals for Supply Chain Top Management. For instance, Pharmaceutical industry is specially sensitive to suffer overstock. Despite using leading-edge technology -the increasing number of complexities and the exponential growth of demand– makes Inventory control … Continue reading OverStocksis. A Dangerous Infectious Disease

The Supply Chainer Report®November 13, 2019February 18, 2020Leave a comment

Supply Chain

SC Certifications. A good idea to help you out filling the gaps

Passionate Supply Chainers all around the world are wondering whether studying a Certification makes sense or not. Allow me to say this is quite normal taking into account the huge number of them. Check out the Top 8 according to CIO magazine. You could have arrived to the Operations department a long time ago. Perhaps you’re a New joiner … It really doesn’t matter. Because … Continue reading SC Certifications. A good idea to help you out filling the gaps

The Supply Chainer Report®July 8, 2019July 11, 2019Leave a comment

AI, Supply Chain

5 reasons why Artificial Intelligence won’t take your Job

Admit it! Everyone is talking about it and there are no doubts that AI is here to stay. So, what is gonna happen? First of all, calm down. AI is a great software achievement and at the same time, a massive opportunity. Initially, let’s put aside all type of fantasies and science fiction. Overall, Artificial Intelligence is just code developed by people, yes humanoids! There … Continue reading 5 reasons why Artificial Intelligence won’t take your Job

The Supply Chainer Report®February 3, 2019February 4, 2019Leave a comment

Supply Chain

The Dark Side of the Forecast: How to Conquer it

Following China Chang’e-4 mission landing on the far side of the Moon, let’s talk about the role of Forecast in business and more specifically in the Supply Chain. Everyone needs a Forecast. Because living in a hyperconnected world means infinite access to data. In the blink of an eye, trillions of algorithms are translating information into statistics and estimating outcomes. No matter which is your … Continue reading The Dark Side of the Forecast: How to Conquer it

The Supply Chainer Report®January 4, 2019June 9, 20191 Comment

Books

5 Mind blowing books you might give to yourself this Christmas

We live in a world of words. Spending most of the time on meetings, calls and presentations – When was the last time you contemplated the content of your desk and shelves? Let’s see if this sounds familiar to you … When you smell a book there is a kind of ‘magic’ which send you away from the reality for a moment; and once you … Continue reading 5 Mind blowing books you might give to yourself this Christmas

The Supply Chainer Report®December 17, 2018December 17, 2018Leave a comment

Analytics, Complexity, Key functional capabilities, SCP, SCV, software, Supply Chain, Variability, Vendor, Vendor evaluation

Top considerations for your Future SC Software Selection

Technology provides capabilities to optimize the operational planning processes of a company. Traditional Supply Chain (SC) software has been widely adopted for a long time, however companies’ No. 1 supply chain priority is to go a step forward on improving its planning capabilities Given growing SC Complexity and Volatility, it is becoming nearly impossible to revise a complete supply chain without using the latest technology. Key … Continue reading Top considerations for your Future SC Software Selection

The Supply Chainer Report®November 23, 2018November 25, 2018Leave a comment

BioPharma

How to start investing on Biopharma stocks | Quick Guide

[This is Part 1 of a series of posts about Investing in Biopharma/BioTech companies] You have already heard and read comments about it, however you don’t know exactly where to start … we all have had the same feeling. Biopharma and Biotech companies are not very accessible stocks to follow-up, in comparison with other huge industries which are everyday on the newspapers, such as: Consumer … Continue reading How to start investing on Biopharma stocks | Quick Guide

The Supply Chainer Report®November 16, 2018November 22, 2018Leave a comment

Personal, Supply Chain

What Can A Newborn Teach You About Supply Chain?

After nine months of preparation, there you are, ready or not, she smiled at you and you smiled her back, then you know that everything is gonna be alright. Here is my compilation of learned lessons that my newborn has explained me about Babies Supply Chain. Plan and Measure – Baby Dashboard First of all, believe me that when you are in the middle of … Continue reading What Can A Newborn Teach You About Supply Chain?

The Supply Chainer Report®August 27, 2018August 27, 2018Leave a comment

Consumer Pharma, Pharma Supply Chain, Strategy

Why is Supply Chain the Rockstar of Consumer Pharma?

The obsession of drug makers to re-evaluate and minimize Operational costs is the New Black. Nowadays Consumer Health (over-the-counter or GSL drugs) has a profit formula quite similar than the Retail business, but unfortunately delivering safety and quality are simply not enough. The decrease trend on sales of the biggest US drug retailers (WBA, MCK, CVS) is due to the consumers shift from traditional to … Continue reading Why is Supply Chain the Rockstar of Consumer Pharma?

The Supply Chainer Report®July 24, 2018August 26, 20182 Comments

AI, Analytics, Clinical Trials, Data, Medicine, Pharmaceutical

What role will Analytics and Artificial Intelligence play

The 2018 SAS Health and Life Sciences Executive Forum is an event in which global leaders across the health care ecosystem are coming to discuss key issues and opportunities around next-generation analytics. The main target of 2018 session held at Madrid was to get a deeper understanding of new analytical technology applications in pharma and health care and their potential benefit to pharmaceutical companies, healthcare … Continue reading What role will Analytics and Artificial Intelligence play

The Supply Chainer Report®June 15, 2018June 8, 2019Leave a comment

ERP, Forecasting, Innovation, Strategy, Supply Chain

Tearing Up the Rulebook: How Millennials are Changing Concepts of Forecasting

… In the past, software was not powerful enough to provide a reliable forecast, but now we have tools and resources that provide insight like never before. The question is, are you getting the most out of them? Everyone knows that the present and future is changeable, so why then are we still using the same forecasting structures and assumptions? Why don’t we leverage technology … Continue reading Tearing Up the Rulebook: How Millennials are Changing Concepts of Forecasting

The Supply Chainer Report®November 16, 2017August 26, 2018Leave a comment

Proyect Management, Spanish Post

La Matriz Portfolio de Proyectos

¿Cómo mantener el orden de tus proyectos? ¿Tienes problemas a la hora de trabajar en varios proyectos a la vez? Es posible que te estés convirtiendo en un ‘slasher’ … del inglés ‘slash’ que significa barra alta. El termino fue acuñado por una famosa escritora del New York Times, el cual describe al creciente número de personas que somos incapaces (me incluyo…) de responder … Continue reading La Matriz Portfolio de Proyectos

The Supply Chainer Report®September 22, 2017August 26, 2018Leave a comment

Data, ERP

Big Data and 21st century Supply Chains

Data is everywhere and manufacturing companies today are collecting increasingly massive amounts of data with the help of digital technologies. New strategies, improved skills and more powerful tools are needed to make sense of that data and crunch the numbers, and find useful insights that are buried in the data. This situation is elevating the importance of Big Data analytics as a critical business capability. … Continue reading Big Data and 21st century Supply Chains

The Supply Chainer Report®May 15, 2015August 27, 2018Leave a comment