An effective go-to-market model can increase brand value, optimize growth investments, empower sales teams and accelerate time-to-revenue. These six tips can help align your organization's go-to-market approach from strategy to revenue.

Read the Executive Summary for white paper on building Cost, Adaptability and Speed advantages in life sciences - the full white paper can be downloaded here.

Part 3 in my three-part series of white papers for Amber Road (now part of E2Open). This one explores ways that fashion brands can gain a supply chain speed advantage to anticipate changing business environments - such as recent volatility around trade policies - and rapidly adapt global supply chains and sourcing strategies to reduce the impact to business performance. Part 1 discussed building a supply chain cost advantage, and Part 2 considers sustainable quality, when a growing number of consumers care about the impact of fashion on the environment and their fellow global citizens. You can download Part 3 here and all three parts here. Below is the executive summary of Part 3…

This white paper looks at sustainable quality for fashion brands and is Part 2 in a three-part series that I wrote for Amber Road (now part of E2Open). The papers share supply chain perspectives on how to achieve advantages in cost, sustainable quality and speed. You can download the full paper here - below is the executive summary…

Some companies are moving their manufacturing out of China and into other countries across Asia to avoid US import tariffs. In changing times, continual re-evaluation and occasional re-engineering of sourcing options is required together with some key areas of technology support…

After somewhat of a hiatus, I am very glad to be sharing this white paper with you that I wrote for Amber Road. It is part 1 of a three-part series sharing how to achieve advantages in cost, sustainable quality and supply chain speed…

At the end of 2017, I suggested three achievable global supply chain performance improvement steps that retailers and brands might benefit from in 2018. How did they do and what’s important for 2019…

With supply chain managers trying to mitigate the cost of recently enacted tariff increases and second guessing upcoming threats, here is my brief answer to the WSJ question on the recent ‘trade truce’ that was published today…

Somewhere north of 200 industry professionals gathered in Las Vegas this week to learn, debate, network and think about the current and future state of technology in logistics. I learnt a lot and was humbled!

While some retailers and consumer brands are engaging in early proof of concept pilots with their chosen suppliers of blockchain technology and services, others are observing from a distance to learn how well the solutions work, how fully the promised value can be realized, and at what cost.

In the new (old?) era of global trade wars, business model disruptions, increasing freight rates, geographic labor rate shifts and supply chain digitalization - an assessment and review regimen to maintain and drive global sourcing value…

There is a lot of talk in both technology and shipping circles about blockchain providing “visibility” to shipments and the global trade documentation surrounding them. Let’s think about that... 

Preparing for blockchain and IoT in global trade - an operational model for ocean transportation management today that helps with future potential changes.

At this time of year, industry consultants and analysts state their predictions for global supply chain innovation trends in 2018 – from electric self-drive trucks to the Internet of Things and Blockchain. Instead of adding to those lists, here is my take on just three achievable global supply chain performance improvement steps that retailers and brands might benefit from in 2018:

Consumers expect value, quality, lifestyle and immediacy. Never before has merchandising relied so heavily upon raw supply chain performance to satisfy fickle buyers and grow their brands. Look at Walmart and Amazon...

Over a year since launching Cleaca Consulting LLC, it has been a bit busy around here!