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What a Difference a Day Makes
View From The Ridge: 54 April 29, 2016 Greg White CEO What if you could get the Wall Street Journal for next Tuesday, or a month from Tuesday, today? If you could know what will happen on a...
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Are You Looking at Your True Service Problems?
View From The Ridge: 55 May 6, 2016 Mike Mills Director of Business Consulting 1. Is your service achieved stronger on suppliers with short or long lead times? Pick a threshold that fits your...
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Lose the Excess Inventory
Jim Klekamp Senior Business Consultant View From The Ridge: 56 May 13, 2016 What do inventory management and weight loss have in common? My wife is a manager of a local weight loss clinic in the...
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What Did You Do On Your Vacation?
View From The Ridge: 58 May 27, 2016 John Moffitt Vice President, Services Last week I attended the 2016 Gartner Supply Chain Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. It wasn’t exactly vacation. But when you’re...
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Understanding the Cost of Service
View From The Ridge: 59 June 3, 2016 Rod Daugherty Vice President, Product Strategy Julian works for a retail enterprise that has a distribution center, forward selling locations primarily serviced...
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Answering the Carrying Cost Question
View From The Ridge: 60 June 10, 2016 Mike Mills Director of Business Consulting You’re in a meeting and your CFO calmly asks YOU to describe Carrying Rate. Stay Calm. You've Got This! For many, this...
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How Much Of Your Brain Are You Using?
View From The Ridge: 61 June 17, 2016 John Moffitt Vice President, Sales In my last article, I reflected on the Gartner Supply Chain Conference and the notion of developing a bimodal organization. I...
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The Forecast isn’t the Forecast, Until it’s YOUR Forecast!
Jim Klekamp Senior Business Consultant View From The Ridge: 62 June 24, 2016 Wouldn’t it be nice to have a 100% accurate forecast? For sure. Of course, we all know that this isn’t possible, but to...
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Blue Ridge Named a “Great Supply Chain Partner” by SupplyChainBrain
Blue Ridge, is honored to announce that it has been named once again in SupplyChainBrain’s list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners for 2016. Over the course of a six-month online poll, supply chain...
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Your Competition is Training
Sven Aunapu Director of LifeLine Services & Education View From The Ridge: 64 July 8, 2016 Training is something that most of us make time for… once. Then, after that initial training, we believe...
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You Can’t Sell What You Don’t Have
Jim Klekamp Senior Business Consultant View From The Ridge: 66 July 22, 2016 “You can’t sell what you don’t have.” How many times have you heard that? In many distribution businesses, there often...
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What is the difference between forecasting and predictive analytics anyway?
View From The Ridge: 69 August 12, 2016 Greg White CEO I get this question a lot. I've asked this question a lot. I've heard many answers to this question…a lot. Let me give you the answer of someone...
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“Our Business is Fine.” Is it? Really?
View From The Ridge: 71 August 26, 2016 Greg White CEO "Our business is fine." If this phrase was ever more dangerous than it is in commerce today, I can't imagine when that could have been. With...
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What is the Blueprint for BLUEPrint?
View From The Ridge: 74 September 16, 2016 Greg White CEO It’s That Season Again Temperatures are cooling, its football season, and you know what that means: yes, it’s the traditional time for our...
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Understanding the “Business Problem”
View From The Ridge: 77 October 7, 2016 Rod Daugherty Vice President, Product Strategy When I’m not thinking about supply chain planning optimization problems, one of my hobbies is composing and...
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Not To-Do List
Jim Klekamp Senior Business Consultant Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a recent trend in journalism—the "listicle." This is a combination of a list and an article, designed to grab your...
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Lead Time is More Than a Number
View From The Ridge: 82 November 11, 2016 John Moffitt Vice President, Business Strategy When someone asks how long it takes to get to work, how do you answer? I would expect you might give an...
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Who’s Ready for Christmas?
View From The Ridge: 86 December 16, 2016 John Moffitt Vice President, Business Strategy Yesterday was supposedly the last day to ship things to receive before Christmas. Christmas is on a Sunday this...
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Developing a Next Generation Supply Chain Network
View From The Ridge: 90 January 27, 2017 Victor Chen Vice President, Client Services It's a new era for you and your customers. With the pace of commerce rapidly changing, developing an efficient...
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Unified Commerce: More Than a Buzzword?
View From The Ridge: 91 February 3, 2017 Greg White CEO Blue Ridge just returned from Retail’s Big Show – NRF 2017 in the city that never sleeps – New York City. One of the key takeaways from the show...
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