Strategy and Foresight
Scale Changes the Best Supply-Chain Design
Why economies of scale inside a facility can create diseconomies across logistics, infrastructure and supply networks, changing the best system architecture.
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Risk and Resilience
The Party You Cannot Sue
The party that causes your worst loss is rarely one you can sue, and recovery runs in series down a chain, so the probability of getting paid multiplies away.
Risk and Resilience
Supply-Network Resilience: Why Lowest Unit Cost Can Create the Highest Enterprise Risk
A strategic sourcing framework that balances unit cost with continuity, concentration, recovery time, inventory, quality and supplier capability.
Operational Excellence
Do You Know Your Suppliers' Costs, or Only What They Charge You?
Procurement negotiates price. Strategy maps where margin is captured along the chain — and tests whether the analysis behind the decision would survive scrutiny.
Engineering and Manufacturing
Procurement Under Constraints: Plan Logistics and Bottlenecks Before They Reach the Site
Why transport, storage, handling, technical and production constraints must be designed into procurement before they become delivery bottlenecks.
Engineering and Manufacturing
Local Manufacturing or Offshore Expansion? Evaluate the System, Not the Unit Cost
A decision framework for comparing local and offshore manufacturing across cost, quality, IP, resilience, market access, capital and strategic control.
Business Models and Growth
Supplier Relationships as a Source of Innovation, Resilience and Competitive Advantage
Supplier relationships can create more than price savings. When governed well, they provide innovation, intelligence, resilience and access to specialist capability.
Business Models and Growth
In-House or Outsource? The Strategic Decision Behind Manufacturing Capability
A decision framework for make-versus-buy choices that considers strategic capability, total cost, resilience, learning and long-term competitive position.
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