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Alcohol and Addicts: Do retail supply chain planners need a 12 step program?

The Network Effect

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” – Samuel Johnson. It’s 1934 and in a dark, dingy basement on the lower east side of New York, a fundamental principle of change management would emerge, from the unlikeliest of sources. And isn’t that what change is all about?

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Bad habits in retail supply chain planning

The Network Effect

” This is especially true in the world of retail supply chain planning. It drives replenishment across all locations in the supply chain simultaneously. It drives revenue, purchasing and inventory projections within the merchandising teams and finance. It drives labour planning at the stores.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Danny Wang, VP at Canada Goose!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Danny Wang is currently the VP of Sourcing and Procurement at Canada Goose with accountability for Direct/Indirect spends and replenishment planning and purchasing. He received his Engineering degree from Queen’s University which led to his initial career in manufacturing and supply chain at Celestica.

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The Target Canada Story and the Brand Impact of the Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Amongst them was their entire Product Data Management system, business process, organization, and change management work stream. There was no accuracy nor integrity in dozens of fields of data for thousands and thousands of skus.