Supply chains: the platform for driving true business transformation
By John Gattorna and Pat McLagan
December 2021
© CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly Digital Edition: Quarter 4 2021
Sourcing for Resilience
September 2021
© Prof. Omera Khan, Executive Strategic Adviser, Skill Dynamics, 2021
2021 Global Logistics, 8th edn., edited by Edward Sweeney and Donald Walters, Kogan Page, London, 2021,
John Gattorna, People powering contemporary supply chains, Chapter 14, pps.270-288.
The Covid-19 crisis reveals vulnerable supply chains
February 2021
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Design your supply chain according to customer behavior
February 2021
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Fundamental Redesign of Enterprise Supply Chains
July – August 2020
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COVID-19 SAPICS and Supply Chain Management
March 2020
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Engineering News, South Africa, John Gattorna on redesigning supply chains to withstand disruptions like the coronavirus crisis
March 2020
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Supply chain design with the marketplace in mind
This excerpt, taken from the new book Transforming Supply Chains: Realign your business to better serve customers in a disruptive world, provides two frameworks for designing your supply chains so that they are aligned with the markets that they serve.
February 2020
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Transformation is the key keyword for the world’s supply chain leaders
October 2019
© SCM+Logistik Magazine
Article writing in Danish see pages 11
Transformation is the key keyword for the world’s supply chain leaders. That is the conclusion at a series of “thought leadership” summits between supply chain directors from around the world.
Why is it that “transformation” is so prominent and how transformative you your supply chain? Two experts have written a book about it.
The vital importance of supply chains in our lives
December 2019
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Designing and Managing Supply Chains, from ‘Outside-In’
October 2019
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Supply chain expert John Gattorna guest speaker at SCELP
January 2019
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The big issues facing supply chain executives in 2019 – A range of expert opinions
January 2019
© SCM+Logistik
By Poul Breil-Hansen
CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly
Dialogue: A CONVERSATION WITH AN INDUSTRY LEADER
Consultant, academic, and author John Gattorna has been encouraging companies to rethink how they design their supply chains, so that they put the human at the center. The supply chain anthropologist
November 2018
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The future of Logistics: Finding better ways of getting products delivered challenges entrepreneurs and logisticians alike
November 2018
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By David Hodes
Dr John Gattorna receiving his 2018 Distinguished Service Award
October 2018
Dr John Gattorna receiving his 2018 Distinguished Service Award from Mary Long, at the 2018 CSCMP Edge Conference in Nashville
Dr. John Gattorna to Receive CSCMP’s Distinguished Service Award 2018
July 2018
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Dr. John Gattorna, author, academic and principal of a Sydney-based specialist advisory business, Gattorna Alignment, will receive the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) 2018 Distinguished Service Award. He will be presented with the award during the Opening General Session at CSCMP’s Annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on October 1, 2018.
SPEED UP!
April 2018
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Designing contemporary supply chains for faster clockspeeds to cope with the increasingly volatile operating environment
‘Supply Chain 2020: Industry Insiders Share Perspectives on Successful Supply Chain Management in a Changing World’
August 2017
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Putting the People Back into Supply Chain Success. For firms facing an increasingly uncertain economic future, a shift to customer-centric supply chain models could offer a solid foundation for stability and growth.
‘It’s all about Customer segmentation’
November 2016
© Supply Chain Movement
By Martijn Lofvers
Successful companies such as Zara and Schneider Electric are organises from a customer segmentation perspective. Meanwhile many firms are caught up in short-term thinking because of their single, failing supply chain. These were the two key observations during the EMEA Supply Chain & Logistics Summit in Barcelona in June 2016.
Automation Brings Manufacturing Back Home
April 2016
By Michael Belfiore, Automation World Contributing Writer
New technologies are driving the return of manufacturing to the U.S. Though automation can reduce or eliminate certain types of factory jobs, it’s essential to make reshoring cost-effective.
Five essential ingredients to making supply chains effective
March 2016
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We have come a long way in the last 25 years, but fully understanding how to make our enterprise supply chains more effective, and successfully executing to plan, is still a long way off. In many ways the explosion of ERP system installations in the lead-up to Y2K era was a false dawn. Billions was spent, but the return can now be classified as ‘limited’. In the meantime, operating environments for global and domestic enterprises have become increasingly complex and difficult to manage, and the antidotes to this condition are hard to find.
Behavioral Supply Chains
November 2015
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By Tony Greenway
Guru Speak – Dr John Gattorna examines the influence of consumer behavior on supply chains, arguing that adequate responses to the wide array of challenges facing supply chains must take account of the particularities of human behavior. Gattorna spells out a range of observed patterns of consumer behavior. These include the existence of a finite number of consumer behavior patterns in any given market, the fact that the dominant behavior pattern can change temporarily in response to external pressures, more permanent changes in consumer behavior are internal to the consumer, and more than one kind of customer behavior can be observed within single corporate structures. All these observations clearly carry implications for supply chain configurations. Gattorna goes on to say…
Joining the Dots
November 2015
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By Tony Greenway
Dr John Gattorna, one of the world‘s foremost supply chain experts and thought leaders, is passionate about his work. In fact, he admits, he borders on the obsessive. “My wife thinks that I spend too much time thinking about supply chains,” he says. “But they pervade all our lives and everyone is affected by them. And that’s what I find so fascinating.”
SCM & Logistics (article in Danish)
October 2015
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Ny bog argumenterer for, at SCM skal tage både de hårde og de bløde aspekter seriøst. Og så skal kæden tænkes udefra og ind I stedet for indefra og ud. Når det sker, bliver supply chain development ifølge John Gattorna rendyrket business transformation, der kan skabe konkurrencemæssige kvantespring.
A new book argues that supply chain management should consider both the hard and the soft aspects. And that you need to start thinking the chain outside-in rather than inside-out. When this happens supply chain development will according to author John Gattorna turn into a business transformation creating competetive quantum leaps.
Academic supply chain thought
Supply Chain Movement Q3, 2015 article ( pps. 40-44)
By Martijn Lofvers
Dance With The Customers
July 2015
APNA SUPPLY CHAIN WEEKLY
By Aanand Pandey, Publisher, ASCW
“Last week we got the chance to speak with Dr John Gattorna…
We spoke about his career, the evolution of global and Indian supply chains, and his latest book, ‘Dynamic Supply Chains: how to design, build and manage people-centric value networks, 3rd Edition’ which will be officially launched during the upcoming ‘2015 Global Supply Chain Thought Leadership Summit’ to be held in Athens, Greece on 29-30 September.”
Supply-Chain Alignment: Finding Meaning in a Buzzword
July 2015
SupplyChainBrain
By Robert J. Bowman
Global Value Chains in a Changing World
Edited by Deborah K. Elms and Patrick Low (Read Chapter 9 by Dr John Gattorna)
Global value chains are a major driving force of globalization. This volume is the product of a dialogue with policy makers in the Asian region, where economists, political scientists, management specialists, development thinkers and business executives joined together in an exploration of the multiple dimensions of supply chains: what drives them, how they operate, how they adapt in a rapidly changing world, and what they mean for development and for policy.
copyright © Fung Global Institute, Nanyang Technological University and the World Trade Organization, 201
Supply Chain Review’s 2013 Top 50 Supply Chains
Magazine: supply Chain Review
Date: April 2013
Read review by Anna Game-Lopata
An interview with John Gattorna by EuroLogistics Magazine
www.eurologistics.pl / Grudzień 2012 – Styczeń 2013 nr 6/2012 (73)
Magazine: Logística integral
Logística integral
Date: Jan-Feb 2012
Book: Supply Chain Innovation for Competing in Highly Dynamic Markets: Challenges and Solutions
Business Science Reference
Date: 2012
Fix your supply chains and you fix the company (and the economy)
DILF Orientering
Date: October 2011 Nr. 5
Read the article (PDF 292KB)
Building supply chains that resolve complexity and satisfy customers in an increasingly volatile world
DILF Orientering
Date: August 2011 Nr. 4
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A Word About Dynamic Supply Chains: Delivering value through people
The European Business Review
Date: July – August, 2011
Building supply chains that resolve complexity and satisfy customers in an increasingly volatile world
DILF Orientering
Date: June 2011
Supply Chain Innovation for Competing in Highly Dynamic Markets: Challenges and Solutions
http://www.nitl.ie
Date: 06 Feb 2011
DHL Technology Sector News Update
DHL Technology Sector News Update
Date: Issue 1, 2011
Dell’s Supply Chain Transformation
by Supply Chain Asia
Date: January / February 2011
Focus On Supply Chains Through A New Lens
Forbes.com
Date: 10 November 2010
by Dr John Gattorna
Getting above the clouds
Blog
Date: 2010
The role of technology in supply chain development and transformation is approaching a new dawn as new systems such as cloud computing are increasingly looked to by organizations to support their supply chain processes, according to the head of Accenture’s global supply chain practice.
“My feeling is that we’re going to see technology emerging again in a much more sustainable way than we have in the past and lead elements of supply chain development,” said Mark Pearson, Global Managing Director of Supply Chain Management with Accenture.
“We have been very quiet on the technology side in the past ten years. Now you have some very interesting developments emerging around SaaS and Cloud. We’re seeing companies – particularly in the transportation and warehousing space – increasingly looking to systems like Cloud to source processes.”
Yet before looking for advanced technology solutions, organizations need to make sure they have the basics in place and running smoothly, said Pearson.
“You need the base capabilities around data integrity and basic functions to process orders and so on. If the base isn’t right, then there isn’t much point talking about application of smart technology.”
Going forward, developments in supply chain technology would centre on three primary areas: end-to-end visibility and collaboration, data analytics, and process capability through Cloud-type systems, Pearson told delegates at a supply chain summit at Macquarie University in Sydney.
“We’re seeing organizations using new advanced technologies for visibility and collaboration to look outside the organization to customers and their customers’ customers for clearer pictures of demand and then taking that information back through to suppliers.
“Then we’re seeing technologies that allow organizations to react and respond in a very quick way to the information they have. Tied to that is a major focus at the moment on supply chain analytics — building analytic capability on top of core backbone data systems to provide information that their people can really use.”
Recent research from the global management consulting company found seven core characteristics among companies that achieve high performance in their supply chains. One of those was having a supply chain strategy that is set up to support the overall business strategy of an organization in a very aligned manner. Another was an ‘outstanding ability to execute’, a key part of which is deploying the right technology.
Turloch Mooney
Boards and leadership riddled with fundamental problems
Supply Chain Asia
Date: May/June 2010
by Turloch Mooney
Recession teaches harsh lesson in human behavior
Supply Chain Asia
Date: May/June 2010
by Turloch Mooney
Realigning Service Operations Strategy at DHL Express
Interfaces 2010; 40 175-183
Date: 2010
It’s People That Power Enterprise Supply Chains; But Where are the HRM Professionals?
Published at SupplyChain Digest
Date: 2007
The solutions for the country (Argentina) come from Asia
Paper: Comercio Exterior (Spanish)
Date: April 2010
Read article in Spanish
10 years in the evolution of the 4PL Business Model
Magazine: Enfasis Logistica (Spanish)
Date: March 2010
Read article in Spanish
Review of The Supply Chain Business Summit 2010
Paper: The Australian Finanical Review
Date: 9 March 2010
Read review by Peter Roberts
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications.
Date: February 2010
Read review by Edward Sweeney and Daniel Park
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Website: Supply Chain Movement
Date: January 2010
By: Martijn Lofvers (The Netherlands )
Read the blog on the Supply Chain Movement website
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: Supply Chain Management (Danish)
Date: February 2010
Read review in Danish
Supply Chain Management
Magazine: Media Planet (Finnish)
Date: February 2010
Read article in Finnish on Dr John Gattorna
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: MHD Supply Chain Sollutions
Date: January/Feburary 2010
Read review by Jo Buchanan
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: Logistics & Supply Chain News
Date: November/December 2009
Read review by Gerard de Villers
Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment – review by Gerard de Villiers
2009 Top 25 Australian Supply Chains
Magazine: Logistics Magazine
Date: December 2009
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: Logistics Association of Australia
Date: November 2009
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: BOSS
Date: November 2009
Read review by Mike Hanley
The Key to Successful Innovation in Enterprise Supply Chains
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: November/December 2009
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: Supply Chain Perspectives
Date: Vol 10 Issue 2 2009
Read review by Edward Sweeney and Dan Park
The importance of supply chain research to Industry and Society
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: September/October 2009
Read article by Dr John Gattorna
Philosophy or function?
Magazine: Today Logistics & Supply Chain Magazine
Date: Agosto, 2009
Read article (in Portuguese) by Dr Carlos Bremer
Link to Carlos Bremer interview about S & OP
Read article ( in English ) by Dr John Gattorna
Link to Today Logistics & Supply Chain Magazine August 09
Review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: July / August 2009
Read review of Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment
Living Supply Chains 2-day Master Class
Athens
Date: 30 May, 2009
Fix your Supply Chains and you Fix the Company (and the Economy)
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: May/June, 2009
Read article by Dr John Gattorna
Fix your supply chains and you fix the company (and the economy)
Magazine: Supply Chain Magazine- Greece
Date: Issue 22, April/May 2009
Read article by Dr John Gattorna (Greek Language)
Link to Article in Supply Chain Managazine Greece pp 118-119
Link to English translation of Greek article in Supply Chain Magazine
Fully Integrating the Procurement function into the Supply Chain – the next big opportunity
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: March/April, 2009
Read article by Dr John Gattorna
Living Supply Chains
Kasteel Heeswijk, The Netherlands
Date: December 2008
Executive Lecture & Dinner for Top Logistics and Supply Chain Professionals
Kasteel Heeswijk, The Netherlands
Supply Chain Organisation Design – The Secret Sauce of Peak Performance
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: January/February, 2009
Read article by Dr John Gattorna pps 15-20
Sådan går det med SCM 2009
Magazine: Supply Chain Magasnet, #12, pps. 11
Date: December, 2008.
Read article in Danish by Dr John Gattorna
Read English translation
2nd Express Logistics & Supply Chain Conclave 2008
Magazine: Daily Shipping Times
Date: 20 September 2008
Read article
The Triple-A Supply Chain Revisited
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: November/December 2008
Read article by Dr John Gattorna pps 38-41
Moving with the times
Magazine: RNME
Date: October 2008
Arshiya Middle East recently hosted a seminar at which John Gattorna discussed the benefits of Supply Chain Alignment and 4PL.
Read article by Ian Bessant and Flemming Jensen
Asia Pacific Supply Chains 2020
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: July/August 2008
Read article by Dr John Gattorna pps 07-18
Link to Article in SCA Magazine
Also:
Lean Supply Chain configurations work, but only in appropriate market conditions pps 18,19
Key to Success in Contemporary Supply Chains
Magazine: Procurement Professional
Date: August/September 2008
Read article written by Dr John Gattorna
Out with ‘Balanced’ Scorecards in Supply Chains, and in with ‘Biased’ KPIs
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: May/June 2008
Read article written by Dr John Gattorna pps 20-21
Collaboration in supply chains – the myth and the reality
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: March/April 2008
Read article written by Dr John Gattorna pps 16-17
5th year anniversary “Administración de la cadena de suministros” ‘Supply Chain’
Magazine: La Republica
Date: Febrero de 2008
Read interview of Dr John Gattorna in page 4 & 10
Technology – always great to have, but lets keep it in perspective
Magazine: Supply Chain Asia Magazine
Date: January/February 2008
Read article written by Dr John Gattorna
Harnessing people power key to supply chain success: Gattorna
Website: supplychainlogisticsnews.net
Date: Friday 13 July, 2007
“Collaboration” er ikke sa stort, som vi forst troede…
Magazine: Logistik Horisont
Date: June 2007 Nr. 6
Read the Danish article (pdf 556KB)
Read English translation (pdf 30KB)
Expert Insight: Living Supply Chains
Magazine: Supply Chain Digest
Date: 8 May 2007
Integrating Supply Chain Post M&A: Taming the beast
Web site: CIO Talk Radio
Date: 4 May 2007
While Post M&A IT integration is tedious, an even more challenging task is Supply Chain integration. What makes it so formidable is the need for a very high level of human intervention and the usually large disparity in the related systems, technologies, and processes. So, how can we ensure the success of such an undertaking?
Mp3 (12.89MB) or visit the site
A marvel of the modern age
Newspaper: Sydney Morning Herald – Graeme Philipson
Date: April 2007
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Raised Voices or Raising Voices? Taking Business at its Word in the New VU
Paper: presented by Elizabeth Harman to the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, Melbourne
Date: 4 April 2007
Australian universities are planning their futures in a global context. The global challenge of today is not technology, but how we live and work together as people. One of the people elements of the challenge is how the world and individual countries manage the relationship between education and the workforce, with all the attendant implications for economic, social and personal well-being. There is a severe demographic imbalance between countries with a disproportionately younger population, hungry for education and prosperity and those that are developed, ageing and hungry for educated younger workers to help maintain their prosperity. Australia is in the second category. China is in a group of its own having limited the size of its younger cohort, while still developing as a nation.
Read the article (pdf 306KB)
Lean Supply Chains virker ikke for alle – i alle situationer
Magazine: Logistik Horisont
Date: April 2007 Nr. 4
Read the Danish article (pdf 464KB)
Read English translation (pdf 73KB)
Menneskelig adfærd driver forsyningskæden
Magazine: Logistik Horisont
Date: April 2007 Nr. 4
Read the Danish article (pdf 174KB)
Historien om hvordan 3PL-branchen kan forbedre sin rolle’
Magazine: Logistik Horisont
Date: Marts 2007 Nr. 3
Read the Danish article (pdf 760KB)
Read English translation (pdf 36KB)
Administración de la cadena de suministros ‘Supply Chain’
Magazine: La Republica
Date: Febrero de 2007
Lea el artículo español (pdf 1.6MB)
Read English translation (pdf 68KB)
Supply Chain Asia
supplychainasia.com
Date: January/February 2007
With Dr Gattorna’s permission, we will be doing a 10-series review of his book’ Living Supply Chains’ for our subscribers. Dr Gattorna’s book is available in most major bookstores in Asia and also online from Amazon.com.
Online Newsletter, Issue 50, 26 January, 2007
CUSTOMER CONVERSATIONS: All pathways lead to customers
(Adapted from Living Supply Chains by Dr John Gattorna)
We have all been seeking the holy grail of improved operational and financial performance. The problem is we have been looking at all the wrong places. The secret to designing a superior supply chain is to start by re-segmenting customers along buying behavior lines and then reverse engineering from there.
We need to shape specific value propositions and underpin these with appropriate organization structures, processes, technology and other building blocks. Consider the supply chains that exist in your industry today.
How difficult would it be to shift towards using multiple supply chains to serve your different customer segments? And how effective? Where would you start?
The good news is that the idea of aligning supply chains with customers, suppliers and third party logistics providers is intuitively attractive and catching on fast. But no one has joined all the dots and fully understands what is involved in engineering an aligned supply chain. We are at best in a world of observation and anecdotes, and still some way from a comprehensive theory to guide us into the future.
Supply Chain Asia
supplychainasia.com
Online Newsletter, Issue 52, 9th February 2007
Implementing a multiple supply chain alignment strategy – Working with people to deliver the required responsiveness
(Adapted from Living Supply Chains by Dr John Gattorna)
Cultural mapping is a way of profiling an enterprise in quantitative terms – it makes visible that which is invisible. In developing an organizational cultural map, a possible can determine the generic enterprise sub-cultures that its people fall into – Group, Entrepreneurial, Hierarchical and Rational.
The subcultures present in an enterprise are the collective set of values and beliefs held by staff and management – and they influence the thinking and action of the organization. It is the underlying culture values which determine what get done in organizations – not what you write down in business plans.
Change management initiatives can be carried out with more precision and with greater probability of success once an organization can correctly map it current, ideal and preferred cultures. The leadership group in an enterprise must take responsibility for shaping the various subcultures necessary to underpin and drive proposed strategies into the marketplace – there is no escaping this responsibility.
Leading Vision
Magazine: Logistics
Date: December 2006
Top Australian supply chains are supporting both cost reduction and profitable growth…
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CIO Live Podcast #41: John Gattorna Part Two
Web site: CIO Live
Date: 17 November 2006
In this podcast, the second of two parts, supply chain expert and author of Living Supply Chains, John Gattorna, discusses where organisations are wasting time and effort on the supply chain. Gattorna also gives some examples of supply chain models that are best suited to RFID.
Mp3 (7.52MB) or Windows Media (2.86MB)
CIO Live Podcast #40: John Gattorna Part One
Web site: CIO Live
Date: 14 November 2006
In this podcast, the first of two parts, supply chain expert and author of Living Supply Chains, John Gattorna, discusses how supply chain efficiencies may not be delivering the long term cost savings as predicted. Gattorna says over simplification of the supply chain may eventually stifle some business opportunities.
Mp3 (10.91MB) or Windows Media (4.16MB)
Stop wasting time with Supply Chain Collaboration that just won’t work
Magazine: Supply Chain Digest
Date: 17 November 2006
Is supply chain collaboration a waste of time? No… and yes.
Read the full article (pdf 65KB)
Logistik Horisont No 12, 2006, pps. 12-19
Magazine: Logistik Horisont
Date: 2006
Two articles in Danish by Poul Breil-Hanson on John Gattorna’s two presentations at CSCMP 2006, San Antoni
Read the full Danish article (pdf 169KB)
2006 CSCMP Annual Conference Seminar: John Gattorna
Web site: www.cscmp.org
Date: 16 October 2006
Dr. John Gattorna, talks about his new book, Living Supply Chains, and how people are the most important component to any successful global supply chain.
Mp3 (3.57MB – 31mins)
Serving the Customer
Magazine: World Business
Date: 10 October 2006
Corporates must learn how to respond to market demands by dynamic alignment of their supply chain. An article by John Gattorna.
Read the full article (pdf 1.4MB)
Sales and Distribution in China
Blog: China Supply Chain and Logistics Strategy
Date: November 1, 2006
Does the uniqueness of Chinese culture and society imply that buyer behaviors are also very different from the rest of the world? How does buyer behavior in China influence the design of demand driven supply chains?
News & Views
Magazine: Supply Chain Digest
Date: October 20, 2006
Why Waste Time Collaborating with Those Who Don’t Want to Collaborate? Dan Gilmore, Editor of Supply Chain Digest reviews Dr. John Gattorna’s CSCMP presentation.
Slave to the supply chain
Magazine: BRW
Date: October 2006
Conflicting supply chain models are exerting an undue influence on some business sectors. From BRW’s Leadership section – 5 October 2006.
Read the full article (pdf 1MB)
Dynamic Alignment: Linking customer expectations to enterprise operations
Magazine: Business Quality Review
Date: September 2006
Is there a reason for the supply chains of so many businesses not working well? Some companies seem to get their products to customers with glorious ease. Too many others, meanwhile, get caught up in squeezing the costs out of their supply chains …
Read the full article (pdf 68KB)
Supply Chains Are the Business
Magazine: Supply Chain Management Review
Date: September 2006
Your business is not static, and neither should your supply chain be. Instead you need a supply chain that can respond dynamically to your customers’ and consumers’ constantly changing wants and needs. This requires making sure that your strategy, culture, and leadership style align with your marketplace. This article is excerpted from John Gattorna’s new book, Living Supply Chains.
Read the full article (pdf 398KB)
Give complexity a simple structure
Magazine: Network Magazine
Date: September 2006
Supply chains took a giant step forward with the dawn of the Internet era in the early 1990s, but technology alone is not enough. Something else is needed, and a new more enlightened approach is essential.
Adapted from the magazine article: Deutsche Post World Net , Network Magazine – Issue 8, September 2006 (Pages 66-67)
Read the full article (pdf 93KB)
Chain Reaction – Wither goeth the collaborative supply chain?
Magazine: CIO
Date: August 2006
Since May 2006, CIO Magazine have featured a CIO Retrospectives section – where CIO writers revisit events, issues and technologies that the magazine addressed in the past.
In the CIO August 2006 page 98 “Chain Reaction – Wither goeth the collaborative supply chain?” by Sue Bushell – this article examines the impact that re-engineered global supply chains have had in Australia – with reference to SMART 2001 & John Gattorna when he was at Accenture. You may find this an interesting read…
Leap of Faith
Magazine: Logistics Issue 11
Date: February 2006
The original 4PL concept would require a radical change in the way businesses operate on an on-going basis, reports Anna Game-Lopata …
People Power
Magazine: Lloyd’s FTB Asia, pgs 14-15
Date: January/February 2006
By Dr. Gattorna’s count, the design and operation of modern supply chains is 45% human behaviour, 45% systems technology and 10% infrastructure…
Read the full article (pdf 336KB)
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Magazine: Logistics Issue 09, pg 12
Date: December 2005
DHL has identified the fashion industry as a key growth area in Australia and Asia, and is pushing to gain a foothold in the field, reports Derek Parker. As part of its strategy, DHL officially sponsored the inaugural Asia Pacific Fashion Forum, held in Melbourne in October.
Where are the Pioneers?
Magazine: Logistics – The Strategic Resource for Australian Supply Chain Professionals
Date: April 2005
‘Cringe factor’, ‘black holes in supply’ – Australia is well-known for its pioneering spirit but has this been lost along the supply chain?
Read the full article (pdf 498KB)
Study into Australian logistics industry
University of Wollongong – Media Release
Date: May 2004
