Recently, we updated our website, and that prompted a lot of thinking about many aspects of business. One is the importance of continual learning. As you'll see on our Continual Learning webpage, it is a priority. With that said, I've noticed that the most successful people (clients, colleagues, fellow [...]
July 9, 2018 If you want to learn, teach. Recently I taught a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) class for my APICS Inland Empire Chapter, and it reminded me of this fact. In order to teach anything (whether in a classroom or one-on-one), you need to brush up on [...]
January 29, 2018 Kash Gokli (head of Harvey Mudd's manufacturing and clinic programs) and I led our 12th Harvey Mudd executive roundtable last week on the topic of best practices. One of the executives from WET (from designer to maker of the Bellagio fountain and many others like it) [...]
April 3, 2017 I participated on the panel, "Professional Pathways in Supply Chain" at the Drucker Supply Chain Forum last week. Interesting to note that the panel was all women - definitely not typical but nice to see! I was joined by executives from Walt Disney, Source Intelligence, Intelligent [...]
October 7, 2016 Last week, while attending APICS 2016 in Washington DC, I was able to spend time with the West Coast student case competition's winning team, San Diego State University. I am the Chair of the West Coast student case competition, and I was proud to see our [...]
Take the necessary steps and dedicate resources to review processes and think more broadly about specific steps and functions before the purchase of a new ERP system. We received a call this week from another frustrated CEO who is struggling with a system implementation. What we hear frequently from [...]
