During 2012, and perhaps beyond, Inspired-Search is the exclusive interview partner of the popular Supply Chain Movement magazine. Both Edwin Tuyn and Oskar Verkamman will, jointly with the editor of the magazine, take care of the profile interviews of Supply … Continue reading →

Two topics that became urgently important as a post mortem on the recent recession(s) are Scalability and Flexibility. In various recent discussion Inspired-Search had with top executives of global operating companies it became clear that those topics are high on … Continue reading →

Every company and manager is traditionally struggling with too much work and enough resources. Rather than putting a plan forward for increasing your headcount budget your will be better of by tapping into your hidden resource pool. Every company, department … Continue reading →

When I started thinking about this topic I thought that everything that could have been said has already said. However, I still come across companies that manage their Delivery Supply Chain function by function rather than as an integrated end … Continue reading →

Last week I had a very interesting discussion with one of my peers in the industry. The discussion was about the intercompany focus on functional cost reductions rather than an end2end focus on the total delivered cost. From  my own experience I … Continue reading →

The topic of residential deliveries is close to my hart and I still don’t understand why we as an industry didn’t make more progress than we did over the last decade. What I mean with residential deliveries is an order placed at … Continue reading →

The topic of empowerment is on my blog-to-do list for quite a while. About a decade ago this was one of the buzz words everyone was talking about, no-one really understood and above all no-one really implemented. It was just … Continue reading →

This post is on how I think about dealing with our suppliers in the Supply Cain. Most of my life I’ve spent at the customer side of the table from a Supply Chain perspective, but I’ve spent also a reasonable … Continue reading →

For people that don’t know me too well, I need to say upfront that I’m very optimistic from nature. If you find this blog  negative than that’s more because I’m really worried that our learning capacity is less than we … Continue reading →

Because I worked for both Dell and Lenovo I get quite often the question asked what is the best PC to buy. In my time at Dell I digged out the famous Supply Chain story and while I was working for … Continue reading →