Brian Harmon

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🎯 Are you experiencing production stoppages due to poor supplier performance? Discover ⮞ CPIA Certification 🌐 https://lnkd.in/gMcmcFf4 💡 Businesses involved in manufacturing or distribution experience production stoppages due to poor supplier performance, and the number one reason why you fail to deliver to your customers on time and in full is your suppliers. Poor-performing suppliers are the most common reason for poor schedule performance, out-of-stock items, and long order delays. You have so many suppliers, so bad, and you must formulate a winning strategy to improve supplier performance. 🚀 Many manufacturing managers and suppliers believe that they do not have the insight into each other's production operations that they would need in order to overcome interruptions. The most effective strategy for dealing with this problem is to boost visibility among your suppliers. 🍁 VCARE Academy, Canada provides 100% practical education that teaches both the WHAT and HOW of supply chain operations. Credit: VCARE Academy  👉 https://lnkd.in/g2aFWZwA 💬 LIVE Chat with VCARE Academy and learn how they can help you improve your supply chain expertise, and at the same time, enhance your company’s supply chain capabilities. ⭕ WhatsApp: https://lnkd.in/g5F-_w-v  ⭕ Telegram: https://t.me/vcaresupport #supplychain #logistics #leadership #certification #sustainability #futureofbusiness #SupplyChainInnovation #FutureofLogistics #manufacturing #supplychain #ai #blockchain #machinelearning #robotics #sales #forecasting #supplychain #logistics #manufacturing #production #inventorycontrol #warehousing #sustainability #circulareconomy #demandplanning #ddmrp #salesandoperationsplanning

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Logistics and supply chain professionals have shifted their focus to long-term strategies rather than short-term survival thinking. They are adopting new ways of working and prioritizing supply chain resilience, cost reduction, and transparency. Is your business keeping up with these key trends?

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What’s something you can’t see, but rely on every day? Supply chains! Supply Chain Day recognizes the marvel of supply chains and the professionals who manage them. Take some time to appreciate the people, places, and things that keep supply chains running smoothly ⛓️

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Global Supply Chain vulnerabilities make the news headlines, but the threats lurking within or near the organization are the ones that often get missed. Frequent stockouts, obsolescence, and planning 'surprises' are all signals the organization needs an improved Supply Chain strategy to deliver resiliency. #demandplanning #inventorystrategy #SIOP

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40% of POs in manufacturing are changed, after being raised in their ERP. This climbs up to 60% (or higher) in times of disruption. Expecting procurement teams to stay on top of these order changes manually - when handling 100s of suppliers with 1000s of line items - is impossible. You can't track things accurately using traditional methods like spreadsheets and emails. So how do you do it without letting anything fall through the cracks? → Investing in VISIBILITY & EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION. Both internally and externally. Procurement teams need: → Good working relationships with internal teams to understand impact to business and make faster decisions. → Open communication with strategic suppliers to catch changes early so your team isn’t lying idle. → Better tools and capabilities that do the mundane, repetitive work for you, to help stay on top of those PO changes, collaborate with suppliers and identify tasks that need urgent attention. We've entered a new era, where supply chain disruptions are the new norm. Manufacturers need to invest in more strategic tools and systems for procurement to be competitive.

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Today brought unexpected challenges, but I embraced the opportunity to exceed our client's expectations. One of our clients call me this morning, saying they messed up on their orders, need an immediate transport of 11 cartons of supplies from Queens, NY to Monroe, NJ. Their production team was unable to resume, and had to pay their workers to sit and wait until the arrival of the product. What immediately crossed my mind was the following; If I sought to broker this shipment, the ETA would be about an hour or more for pickup, and would the trucker get it delivered ASAP. The client was already at a loss on their job, and they were losing more by the minute. I told them I will personally pick up the cartons and rush to deliver it myself. Within 10 minutes, I was at the warehouse for pickup, was loaded in 2 minutes, and delivered to NJ in 1 hour. We value each of our clients business, time, and money, choosing the best methods for shipping, being there for when they need us, and when they want us. 😉 I can definitely say, they were VERY HAPPY with the quick outcome! What story can you share about how you went the extra mile for your client? #ClientSatisfaction #GoTheExtraMile #Dedication #Logistics #Urgent Let Freight Country help service you with your shipping needs. Keeping you, your clients, and your business happy!

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It's Purchasing .... We've had a great run filling purchasing positions at SCN - Search Consulting Network over the past several years. Supply chain disruption from COVID offered a great strain on all purchasing departments in manufacturing, and the reverberation from this continues to this day. More recently, the rise in material prices in 2024 has prompted the need to boost purchasing influence in organizations. Great purchasing teams can make or break an organization. Article linked in the comments below. Need purchasing help? SCN can show you the way! 70-93, rain, clouds, sun. Make it a great day, everyone! #SCNrecruiting #recruiting #purchasing #supplychain

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Supply Chain folks need to respect the time and expertise of sales professionals that compete for their business against incumbents. Allow me to give an example. You call on an existing customer or a prospective customer. It doesn't matter, but the supply chain folks do their due diligence, qualify you as a future supplier to whatever parts, and you as a sales professional qualify them. You receive the rfq, do your thing, drill down and ask the right questions, provide an apples to apples quote. The supply chain folks say "are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" You go back, double check and say "no, we are good". They say ok and then you ask for the order. They say, "we called our cutrent supplier in and they made sone adjustments and we don't want to take any risk so we are staying status quo but thank you." You say "how about dual sourcing and allow us to demonstrate? Our moq is less than 5% of your eau". They say "no, tyats not the direction we want to go" So I say, " wow, we were 32% less, we did the work. How long ya been with xyz?" They say 10 years. Well have them pay you the $115,000 x 10 years they have been ripoing you off and then i understand staying with the incumbent. They say, "no , we made a decision" This is why we as sales professionals ask qualifying questions. We need quote contracts as sales professionals before repeating this insanity. Something we should all think about before going down such rabbit holes. Supply chains that do this get identified and its very dangerous when an industry of companies won't quote your business. We do all talk and identify bad actors in the arena of the free market. Have a great weekend!

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A $20 order on Amazon has more visibility than supplier orders worth $Ms. Manufacturing purchasing teams relying on excel are being set up for failure. They're working with: → Data entry errors. → Duplicated data. → Outdated data. → No visibility. This manual approach leads to uncertainty, inefficiency, and visibility issues, directly impacting on-time delivery and increasing costs through expedited freight and excess inventory. Excel just won’t cut it anymore in 2024. Manufacturers need better tools for procurement. ************ What are you doing to improve visibility in your supply chain this year? 🤔

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Simple, but absolutely true. Everyone benefits with the right people in the right spot.

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How do you decide which #supplychain conferences to go to? Since I've started posting on LI, I've been receiving more invitations to conferences. Mostly just the usual email blasts, along with the occasional "speak on our panel and get a discounted rate!" appeal to my ego. I'm sure some of these are worth going to, but they're not cheap and I've realized that I have NO IDEA how to evaluate which ones are worth it. I'd appreciate any tips. How do you decide which conferences to attend? Do you have any criteria you look out for? Is there a way to suss out the types of businesses that attend them? Or do you just know which ones are worthwhile? #supplychainanalytics #analytics

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