Bingo Grandma would be the organizer of the grand-kids bingo games and we all sat around the kitchen table, each of us grand-kids watching one or two bingo cards and buttons to place on the cards. The stakes were high to us. Each bingo game winner received a penny! We thought that was just exorbitant. […]
By Dr. Tom DePaoli Many terrorist attacks focus on the spectacular, spreading fear and taking as many lives as possible. One of their purposes is to have governments spend enormous amounts of money for terror prevention and to demoralize the populace. Why haven’t terrorists focused on the supply chain which could be much more disruptive? […]
Why Common Sense Purchasing Hard Knock Lessons Are Still Relevant Today by Dr. Tom DePaoli It has been over ten years since my publication of Common Sense Purchasing. The book has been hailed as one of the best purchasing books ever published. This article will review some of its key points and add an update […]
A major company that I worked for wanted to redesign their internal website. They assigned their best programmers and some marketing people to design the new website. The programmers insisted on putting all the latest bells and whistles on the website and convinced the project leader that these were necessary upgrades. Unfortunately they did not […]
One of my companies was undergoing a rapid growth spurt. Sales increased 500% in one year. All the internal systems and processes were experiencing severe growing pains. Warehouse space was at a premium for both finished and unfinished product. An internal plant Kaizen team was formed to deal with the need for more space. Everyone […]
By Dr. Tom DePaoli One of the oldest methods of passing down knowledge is oral storytelling. Usually an ancient sage would be the keeper of the stories and pass them down to other tribe members. I highly recommend this method for supply chain professionals. Here are some advantages of storytelling: The brain stores information by […]
Dr. Tom DePaoli Many organizations rely on close relationships with key suppliers to insure competitive success. Gamification tools offer an opportunity to not only improve the relationship but to have fun in the improvement process. By gamification, I am referring to the application of the typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with […]
A very bureaucratic purchasing department wanted to transform themselves into the latest supply management concept. There were over two hundred purchasing professionals throughout the company that needed to be trained in the new strategy and concepts. Since training was basically non-existent an As Is process map was not a Kaizen tool option. A team of […]
Once I worked for a company that had decided to put in a massive, enterprise-resource-planning system. I was in the supply management area and had been assigned to MRO and specifically the storerooms of the company. The ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning software company insisted that they have representatives from each area of the company […]
This Is Not A Perfect World, So There Are Many Opportunities To Improve. So, Improve. In the Navy Reserve I once had a boss (leader) who just disliked me and was not shy about reminding me that he disliked me. He also bragged in advance that he was going to give me a poor performance […]
Dr. Tom DePaoli CEO Apollo Solutions won an award for his book “Leadership by Storytelling: The Best Way to Learn Good Leadership Skills”,
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