Quotes about Supply Chain
Quotes about Supply Chain
Collection of quotes on supply chain and business.
“Great companies understand the strategic importance of supply chain and want people with supply chain experience in the c-suite.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
- “Predicting the future isn’t magic, it’s artificial intelligence.” ~Dave Waters
- “If you want to kill any idea, get a committee working on it.” ~Charles Kettering
- “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” ~Mark Twain
Buzzwords of the future of Supply Chain? Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Augmented Reality… ~SupplyChainToday.com.
- “Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~Dave Waters
- “What gets measured gets improved.” ~Peter Drucker
- “Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.” ~Tom Peters
“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” ~ Tom Peters.
- “85% of the reasons for failure to meet customer expectations are related to deficiencies in system and processes…rather than the employee.” ~W. Edward Deming
- “Artificial Intelligence will revolutionize supply chain in ways that haven’t even been thought of yet.” ~Dave Waters
“Supply Chain is a great path to CEO. If you don’t believe this research Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com
- “I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.” ~Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal
“If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.” ~ Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System.
“Transparency greatly reduces “surprises” in the supply chain. Talk, communicate, share, collaborate.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
- “All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.” ~Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System
“1. Increase Visibility. 2. Reduce Variability. These two activities encompass all layers of Supply Chain Management.” ~SupplyChainToday.com
