During times of financial strain, be it from the effects of the pandemic, high inflation rates, or low sales, the top of every CFO’s list is lowering costs. Although that’s an important goal, CFOs should focus on more strategic efforts, especially optimizing their product or service portfolios. Only then can...

The past few years have brought unprecedented challenges for business leaders, especially when it comes to supply chains. Without end-to-end visibility and actionability into their supply chains, CEOs have been left scrambling to overcome disruptions. With this kind of big-picture thinking in place, however, it’s possible to identify material flow...

With more than 90% of executives acknowledging that forecasting needs to look different in 2021, it’s clear that the days of relying on weighted averages and other historic data to identify patterns are long gone. Demand sensing improves accuracy, but producing reliable forecasts requires the right type and quantity of...

Most executives think of bottlenecks as obstacles. But I think of them as inflection points. Throughout my career, I’ve encountered bottlenecks in many forms. When I was a chemical engineering student, they appeared in my fluid mechanics equations. Later, when I worked in the oil and gas industry, bottlenecks appeared...