After a lightning brigade tour of some of London’s most popular tourist traps (the London Eye, the London Tower, Harrods, various pubs), I had the honor of kicking off the second-annual Supply Management 2.0 Forum series at the swank Millennium Gloucester hotel.
The stars of the show included an encore performance of ITT Industries’ e-sourcing program [more]

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Due to the positive response we received from Jeffrey Wincel’s post, The Illusion of Six-Sigma, we have invited him back as a guest blogger. In this post, Jeffrey, principal at LSC Consulting Group, tackles the issue of evaluating cost drivers within a company’s supply chain.
In the supply chain consulting world I normally encounter two primary [more]

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It’s no secret to the readers of this blog that I’m a proponent of learning from the example of leading companies and adopting best practices whenever possible. So thought I’d add a quick post to pass along an opportunity to participate in a new survey from ARC Advisory Group. The survey is designed to explore [more]

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Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) recently rated Stockholm as the city with the most beautiful women in the world. (I’ll be sure to let you know.) What the fashion magazine overlooked was that the Nordic region also boasts some of the most advanced supply management organizations on the planet.
On Wednesday, April 25th, the Supply Management 2.0 Forum [more]

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Today, I’d like to welcome a guest blogger to Supply Excellence. Jeffrey Wincel is a Principal at LSC Consulting Group. Jeffrey founded LSC Consulting Group in 2001. He has over 20 years of senior level and executive management experience in developing and deploying strategic supply chain initiatives. His company focuses on integrating lean production methodologies [more]

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