For a $2B private-equity backed building materials concern, Xenon Group led the design, development and deployment of a rebate tracking tool to manage a myriad of intricate rebate programs across a complex network of hundreds of suppliers and dozens of internal operating companies. Leveraging Agile methodology and employing best practices in database and user interface [...]
For a Fortune 50 concern, Xenon Group led the creation and development of the client’s Supply Chain Planning function to include: developing and deploying the business process architecture, insourcing the Planning function from an outsourced provider, documenting the business case for the deployment of a best-in-class software application, conducting due diligence and software selection, negotiating [...]
“The self-learning supply chain marks the next major frontier of supply chain innovation. It's a futuristic vision of a world in which supply chain systems, infused with artificial intelligence (AI), can analyze existing supply chain strategies and data to learn what factors lead to supply chain failures,” according to Fred Baumann, who leads Global Industry Strategy [...]
A futuristic new book, “The LIVING Supply Chain: The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time,” by Robert Handfield, Ph.D. and Tom Linton re-imagines what supply chain is, and what it’s becoming. Their premise is that supply chains are ecosystems that adjust and evolve in ways similar to the ways the natural world behaves. READ MORE
In this age of Big Data, do economics still drive decisions in the Supply Chain? Industry professionals can access a wide range of public and private data and a vast amount of statistics and data analysis. But are resources such as Bureau of Labor Statistics or Producer Price Index still relevant today? READ MORE
