I'd like to introduce Joseph C. Selle who starting this week will become a monthly contributor to this blog. Joe lives for supply chains and when he is not blogging he is supporting IBM's own Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) responsible for analytics.
Prior to IBM, he was the CEO at Walden Sports, where he successfully turned around an ailing manufacturing business by building Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities and driving Lean Manufacturing & Quality Management Transformation. He subsequently sold the enterprise.
Joe holds an MBA from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, with a focus on Competitive Strategy. He obtained a Bachelor Degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
I am personally pleased to have Joe join not only to ease my workload, but to also add some real world supply chain news to the blog.
Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be.
2 comments:
Welcome Joe! I'd love to hear your S&OP stories.
Hi Alex and thanks for the welcome! I will certainly queue up a piece on S&OP.
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