David Food

“Implementation of Demand Sensing in Supply Chain Management”
Logistics Research Network
September 05, 2022

Akzhunis Arystanbek said: “It is a huge honour and pleasure for me to receive this award. My study involved an investigation into a very specialised area of supply chain management. When writing a dissertation, we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

“After graduating I moved on to continue my career in supply chain management at a metals and mining company in Kazakhstan.”

Akzhunis’s research was supervised by David Food, Industrial Fellow at WMG and Head of Supply Chain at Board International, who said: “Akzhunis was a thoroughly diligent and focussed researcher who delivered value and insight both through the creation of the data and in the interpretation of the results, delivering insights that would be commercially beneficial.”

Improving Financial and Supply Chain Alignment
Board
July 10, 2023

Practical advice for eliminating supply chain bottlenecks through better cross-functional planning

Supply Chain Trends to watch for 2022
Board International
January 14, 2022

Dave Food explores the trends to pay attention to in SUpply Chain in 2022

Supply Chain considerations through the ESG lens
Dave Food
May 26, 2023

Making supply chain planning decisions, including the dimensions of Waste, Carbon, Societal Impact, Profitability and Customer Service, requires intelligent planning tools to drive intelligent planning decisions.

Faith and Music impact mental health
Dave Food
May 22, 2023

Pressure and unrealistic expectation are post covid themes in the workplace that jeopardise our mental health and sense of well-being, to thrive and survive in these times, pay attention to whom you can harmonize with, what purpose you can align to and your contribution to a healthier world.

Account-based Marketing best practices
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March 13, 2023

Account-based Marketing (ABM) is centred on a growth strategy in which Marketing and Sales teams work together about accounts; they trace advancement to generate personalised buying experiences heading to more effective sales cycles and better deal predictability for a jointly-pinpoint

How to get ready for the future Marketing changes
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March 06, 2023

The imminent changes in Marketing caused by the coming of the online, the digital world and how customer interactions change means current changes represent new challenges for your brand to be seen. Consumers are searching for your article or service value and acceptance, making it vital fo

Leadership in 2023
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March 02, 2023

In the 2023 business environment, companies are coping, more than ever, with complex and competitive circumstances. Business leaders in modern days must adapt to the transformation we all are experiencing and be better prepared to lead new initiatives for success in 2023.

Management Trends for 2023
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February 08, 2023

The instability of recent years brought significant consequences, such as uncertain economic situations, skills shortages, ongoing shifts in the workplace, increasing prices and regulations, digital disruption and rising automation, and more. It represents for industries both challenge

Procurement Analytics Demystified
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February 06, 2023

Procurement Analytics is the practice of gathering and analysing Procurement data for company understanding and effective decision-making. For example, historic Procurement applies analysis details to move forward analytics to forecast and budget future outcomes.

Supply Chain Trends 2023 - Customization and Digitization
Board International
January 30, 2023

My third and final blog on trends to watch in 2023, focussing on how digitalization enables and empowers customization, as our products become more configurable over time, configuration ultimately happens at the customer, which opens a whole new world of opportunity.

How top Food and Beverage shippers are overcoming SC disruptions
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January 27, 2023

A Supply Chain (SC) visibility firm, in alliance with Food Shippers of America, ran a survey across global SC professionals in the Food and Beverage (F&B) industry to determine the impact of the ongoing economic, geopolitical and SC disruptions.

Can Remanufacturing build the industrial Circular Economy?
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January 16, 2023

Limiting single-use plastic is a line of attack consumers want to welcome for a more sustainable way of life, plus brand selection with environmentally-friendly principles. Still, the biggest obstacle is cost; adults dreaming of eco-friendly goods to be more reasonably priced to support the

Top Procurement trends to 2023 and further
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January 10, 2023

Top Procurement trends for 2023 must enable Procurement leaders to envision and manage future-fit SC to reimagine how all parties can generate value and promote a fairer, more sustainable world. SC leaders and organisations should capture this moment of significant change, employ new SC man

Where to fight for Energy and Food Systems
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January 06, 2023

USA Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the entity for evaluating the science associated with climate change. Its recent report, plus the Ukraine crisis, indicates the urgency of closing down fossil fuels by investing in developing sustainable agriculture and renewables

The current state of Marketing
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December 20, 2022

The business of Marketing is becoming increasingly complex. For companies to say they succeed in 2022, they would have to think beyond what they are doing and associate the whole thing back to the ‘why’ of the business as a unity; leaders must decide to evolve when they a

Now is an excellent opportunity for more sustainable economies
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December 13, 2022

Food might be the answer to some environmental challenges. But at present, our Food and Agriculture systems are fragmented in many ways. Less than 2 billion people can have constant accessibility to non-toxic, healthy Food. In contrast, one-third of all Food generated worldwide gets lost or

Supply Chains need buoyancy, not just resilience
Interact
December 01, 2022

The events of the last three years have created even more instability in Supply Chains, and resilience is now a key topic of debate. But how should they be designed, governed, and operated to continue running productively in the face of new challenges?

A Sustainable Food System that becomes part of the solution
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November 30, 2022

The Food System (FS) is becoming increasingly unsustainable for human health and the planet. So, how can we solve the FS matters to deliver healthier, more sustainable products that nourish our bodies without destroying the environment? Food System discussion has a place on the COP27 table.

Innovations in Transportation Management Systems
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November 16, 2022

Supply Chain (SC) disruption brought the foremost technological innovations, especially when discussing transportation improvements. A Transportation Management System (TMS) design encompasses the Network Effect, Autonomous Trucks, Time Slot Management applications, and the future of Last M

How Disruptive Technology influences our businesses
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November 08, 2022

Disruptive Technology is a terminology given to devices such as electronics, gadgets, or concepts that significantly impact industries of any kind and eventually change them permanently.

Sustainability COP27 considerations: Climate change has gone from being a borderline issue to a global priority.
Prophetic Technology
October 26, 2022

Climate change has gone from being a borderline issue to a global priority. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is responsible for climate change. The UN has been bringing together for nearly three decades almost every country for international climate conferences.

COP27 considerations
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October 26, 2022

Climate change has gone from being a borderline issue to a global priority. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is responsible for climate change. The UN has been bringing together for nearly three decades almost every country for international climate confere

Becoming more innovative at work
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October 25, 2022

Every new idea comes from a creative individual or team of innovators. Technology, business ideas, and social solutions shape our world; if unique and original designs and concepts inspire you, you might wonder how to become more innovative.

Overcoming Procurement delays
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October 03, 2022

Why manufacturers and developers in numerous industries are making buying decisions ahead of time?

Are the effects of the pandemic a long-term shift?
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September 29, 2022

No doubt we have learned from the pandemic a lot, but would these new health protocols and changes of mind towards businesses, work, education, shopping, and daily way of living, still stay in the long run?

The Food Supply Chain disruption and its possible solutions
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September 19, 2022

In 2022 things keep uncertain, as we still see Supply Chain (SC) deficiencies. Although some of them are starting to recover, other inconveniences keep surging worldwide. Costs and the disruption of Food SC are skyrocketing due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Challenging Circularity Economy initiatives
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September 14, 2022

Business leadership teams are struggling with unprecedented challenges that encompass global supply disruptions, geopolitical frictions, and price increases. Recent research indicates that business leaders plan to double the revenue from circular goods and services by 2030. 

What if scenario analysis can supercharge your business?
Board
May 29, 2023

Are you ready to supercharge your business with #ScenarioPlanning? Download this report sponsored by Board and produced by Lora Cecere, Founder & CEO at Supply Chain Insights.

Reducing financial bottlenecks in the Supply Chain
Board
July 07, 2023

Many business leaders believe it is easy to establish a collaborative culture between Finance and Supply Chain teams. The reality, however, is that it's not so simple! How can businesses better align the two teams and actively explore activities which will eliminate financial bottlenecks in the Supply Chain? Find out in this infographic, which summarizes key findings from the recent research report produced by Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO at Supply Chain Insights, and sponsored by Board.

Imagine the Supply Chain of the Future
InnovatorsGate
April 21, 2022

As a provocation to discussion Dave Food, OPened up the discussion at Innovators Gate, to explore how future Innovators ought to think about the supply chain, and how they can best align themselves for growth, partnership and collaboration.

Innovating Profitable Manufacturing Supply Chains with Resilience APAC
Board
December 31, 1969

There is a growing need for more intelligent and holistic planning tools that ensure feasible and profitable Supply Chain plans.

Supply Chain leaders are being required to ensure the profitability of their supply chains while remaining resilient to disruption. A challenging balancing act at the best of times.

Join this webinar, where we will be joined by John Burdett, previously Supply Chain Director at Tata Global Beverages, to find out how:

Supply Chains can flex their supply without adding costs by increasing insight into supply capability
Businesses can leverage flexibility through suppliers and partners
Better use of data can create more adaptive Supply Chain Planning through more Intelligent Planning decisions

The Supply Chain and The Future Of Retail
Authority Magazine
April 18, 2022

Dave Food in an interview with Martitia Mestey, shares insights into his journey into the supply chain, and how some life experiences have opened doors to different thinking and life-changing experiences. The adaptability that DAve encourages comes from confidence in future insight into the art of the possible and the potential of the probable, leading to early adoption and dynamic integration into innovative thinking and resilient and responsive supply chains.

How can businesses mend broken global supply chains?
Raconteur
January 05, 2022

A bevy of black swan events has made building resilience into supply chains even more challenging for businesses

Calls for more sustainable IT
Computer Weekly
January 01, 1970

Dave Food explains how IT will help the supply chain become and stay more sustainable

One-Third of Businesses Unprepared for Next Global Crisis
sdcexec.com
May 15, 2023

Like boxers, supply chains need to recover from the last hit, before they push into the next challenge, so having a strong foundation, with an an adaptive intelligent planning overlay is key.
have a look at this article from my coworker Marina Mayer

How Digital Transformation Is Shaping the Retail Supply Chain
Retail asia
January 10, 2022

In the recently concluded joint webinar by Retail Asia and Board Asia Pacific, How Digital Transformation Is Shaping the Retail Supply Chain, top executives discussed the effect of digitalisation in Asia and how businesses and retailers can create opportunities in the age of the digital era.

State of the supply chain

Opening the discussion, Head of Supply Chain Marketing of Board International David Food gave a quick overview of the state of the supply chain.

Food mentions that before the pandemic, retailers who get products offshore mainly try to get from the cheapest source. But COVID-19 made everyone desperate for supplies and decided to get products and supplies from whoever may deliver.

Taking On the Supply Chain Crisis with Advanced Decision-Making
Retail Wire
December 08, 2021

With holiday season kicking into high gear, watch this webinar on demand as our panel of Business Intelligence and supply chain experts give a frank assessment of the current situation and recommend ways to use Retail Planning & Analytics and other forms of Integrated Business Planning to greatly improve forecasting accuracy and responsiveness.
https://retailwire.com/resources/new-webinar-taking-on-the-supply-chain-crisis-with-advanced-decision-making/

Improving Financial and Supply Chain Planning Alignment
Board
July 03, 2023

On-demand Webinar - How to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Cross-Functional Planning

Improving Financial and Supply Chain Alignment (APAC)
Board International
July 21, 2022

Supply Chain and Finance teams, despite working together for so long, still don’t have a common language for producing effective plans in APAC and beyond

How can you achieve supply chain excellence if the teams responsible for delivering it aren’t even speaking the same language? They might not even agree on what Supply Chain excellence is.

Creating a profitable and executable plan with increasingly complex supply chains is almost impossible while disconnects exist between Finance and Supply Chain teams.

Watch our webinar recording with Lora Cecere (Founder, Supply Chain Insights), where we explored new research into:

The current disconnect between Finance and Supply Chain
Creating cohesion between Finance and Supply Chain
Planning for unexpected events
The foundations of an executable and profitable plan

Improving Financial and Supply Chain Alignment
Board International
June 30, 2022

Supply Chain and Finance teams, despite working together for so long, still don’t have a common language for producing effective plans.

How can you achieve supply chain excellence if the teams responsible for delivering it aren’t even speaking the same language? They might not even agree on what Supply Chain excellence is.

Creating a profitable and executable plan with increasingly complex supply chains is almost impossible while disconnects exist between Finance and Supply Chain teams.

Watch our webinar recording with Lora Cecere (Founder, Supply Chain Insights), where we explored new research into:

The current disconnect between Finance and Supply Chain
Creating cohesion between Finance and Supply Chain
Planning for unexpected events
The foundations of an executable and profitable plan

The Shape of Tomorrow s Supply Chains The Science of Sustainability
Doc Player
January 01, 2018

Dave Food explains how IT will help the supply chains of the Future become and stay more sustainable

The use of intelligent customer-facing data to influence and adapt forecasts and the way they are consumed, thereby reducing waste and increasing supply chain and therefore business performance.

Predictive algorithms will predict the likelihood of a successful delivery so will prioritise success over difficulty.

Online shopping will start to offer delivery boxes for regular customers where delivery security is an issue.

Dynamic Cross-docking from truck to bike will grow in larger business cities for deliveries.

Predictive algorithms will start to make millions of simple supply chain decisions based upon probabilistic options

Value in the Metaverse
Thinkers360
August 10, 2023

How could the Metaverse drive a very different world within the next decade? 

The Metaverse potential will announce the next wave of digital disruption, with emerging benefits for users and industries, impacting all, from product innovation to employees’ commitment to Sales and Marketing Omnichannel and customer experience.

Gaming has been core in seeding the Metaverse, but the Metaverse is not exclusive to Gaming. Leaders should accelerate their examining Metaverse potential effects as part of strategy discussions that could set a singular world in motion in the next decade. 

How will virtual worlds be balanced with the physical world to ensure the Metaverse is created responsibly? Is it a safe environment for consumers? Is it just a vision and repetition of the Internet? Will technology advance quickly enough to build the Metaverse of our imaginings? Is Metaverse’s potential going to last, or is it merely a rebranded gaming platform?

How can we define the Metaverse?

Nowadays, the Metaverse is complex to describe. It is a gaming platform, an advertising channel, a virtual retail destination, a digital classroom, a training tool, and a new entrance to digital experiences. The Metaverse looks like everything people’s fantasies could imagine. 

The Metaverse will be the replacement for the mobile Internet. The Metaverse is, a fact, potentially disruptive, thus a vital opportunity tool, yet developing. Most people regard the Metaverse as the next reiteration of the Internet that perfectly combines our digital and physical lives, something we are engaged in. When using it, we could feel as if we are sharing with people no matter how far away from each other we are.

Experts consider the Metaverse to be the next reiteration of the Internet. It might easily merge our physical and digital life by introducing a sense of immersion, real-time interactivity, interoperability crosswise platforms, user agency, and devices; the capability for hundreds of people to interact at once, and use cases extending over activities further than just Gaming.

As the Metaverse becomes more complicated and interconnected, so are its connections. Individuals, organizations, and society will have to cope with the correlated issues and look for approaches that work for all participants. Consider these wide-reaching approaches:

·        Policy and regulations.

·        Privacy and ethics.

·        Accessibility and scale.

·        Antitrust.

·         Antitrust. Moderation and intellectual property (IP).

Metaverse is evolving consumer and business behavior, the latent economic impact; execution leaders should consider capturing value. But the speed of its expansion will rest on multiple technologies such as infrastructure and hardware -encompassing networks and devices, content and experiences, and user-experience element, security, not limited to one technology, platform, or even devices; platforms, such as games engines, enablers as security and payment procedures. The Metaverse’s future evolution is the magnitude to which the interoperability of these components can evolve.

Top technology organizations, established brands, start-ups, Private Equity, and Venture Capital (VC) seek to capitalize on the Metaverse opportunity, investing billions in the Metaverse during 2022, more than double in all of 2021. Much of it is driven by Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Activision for $69 billion. 

Big technology organizations are the most prominent investors, to a much more significant extent than they invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development at a similar period. Industries at present piloting the Metaverse implementation also intend to give over a substantial share of their digital financial plan.

Several elements compel investors’ eagerness to invest in Metaverse; for instance, escalating consumer-directed band Marketing, ever-increasing marketplace readiness, demographic growth, and rising marketplace eagerness as users go into the current early version of the Metaverse for the most part determined by Gaming, featuring millions of active players using an application which allows them to socialize, for virtual learning, fitness, trading, and much more.

The Metaverse potential is clear; almost 60% of consumers currently use the last version of the Metaverse, shifting daily activities to it and connecting people.

Surveys of thousands of executives found significant excitement about the Metaverse’s potential. Almost 60% of consumers using today’s early version of the Metaverse are enthusiastic about transitioning everyday activities to it, with connectivity among people and the capability to open up digital domains. 

Almost 95% of business leaders anticipate that the Metaverse will have a decisive influence on their businesses within five/ten years, most expecting to impact their business management somewhat. Industries such as Media and Telecommunications, consumers and Retail, and Healthcare will likely be affected by the Metaverse; such sectors are also among those already embarked on Metaverse proposals.

The Metaverse’s potential economic value estimations show a discrepancy; enterprise and consumer use cases indicate it might generate trillions by 2030. It is the broadest new evolution opening for numerous industries in the next decade, enabling innovative business patterns, goods, and services, acting as an engagement channel for both Business-to-consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) purposes. The potential impact of the Metaverse changes according to the industry, although it brings implications for everyone. However, these effects might display in very different ways across the value chain; for instance:

·       The Metaverse might build lasting competitive advantages in a company. To get ready to move up by detecting needed competencies and setting in the Metaverse in their operational pattern, or becoming Metaverse users themselves. Business leaders should develop a strategic standpoint by outlining Metaverse targets and the function they need to play, adapting, testing, and learning by introducing preliminary actions, supervising outcomes, and observing user behavior. 

·       The Metaverse challenges companies, their workers, independent creators and content designers, consumers, and governments. Section of the employees will require to be retrained to benefit from it rather than competing with it; countries or cities deciding about launching their businesses as hubs for their expansion will link up the worldwide competitors to catch the attention of investors and talented individuals. 

·       The Metaverse also has evident societal consequences. Investors must outline a road map toward an ethical, inclusive, and safe Metaverse experience. 

·       The guiding principle is also indispensable around issues encompassing ethics, regulatory compliance, security, physical health, safety, Equity, fairness, and sustainability.

·       Disconnecting fiction from fact. The Metaverse caught worldwide headlines for the first time after Facebook’s name changed last year, with descriptions of what is now the Metaverse and how it evolved for just about half a century.

The Metaverse is at its maturity point, just as the social networks and user-generated content transition years ago triggered by visionary concepts of consumer control and the democratization of the Internet. The course the Metaverse takes is joined to stakeholders’ cooperative deeds in the years to come. Their performance range is subject to the importance of their possible environment and societal force.

What is needed? The Metaverse represents significant challenges to overcome, given that our current devices demand more feasible, exponential, and powerful graphics hardware. Computing power is still weak, and networks must be faster; the interface hardware must take advantage of these evolving technologies.

What is needed? To put billions into the Metaverse infrastructure. The phenomenon, when introducing game players to the concept of “living in an always-on virtual world,” still exists and attracts thousands of users every day. The gaming experience fuels the existence and attraction of a “proto-metaverse. 

The popularity of Gaming outshines other subdivisions of the Entertainment industry, with more than three billion consumers worldwide and a total value of more than $200 billion; the gaming segment is superior to music and movies. However, the reality is that the Metaverse is different; and no-gaming use cases arise for both businesses and consumers.

Business executives are generally optimistic about it; they and consumers are experimenting with the basic Metaverse for everything, from commerce, virtual learning, socializing, and fitness, to other regular activities. Enhancing the Metaverse’s positive potential is crucial and expected to influence the economic and business environment. 

There will likely be predictable challenges, as the Metaverse is a promising tool with an in-progress implementation similar to where Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption was five years ago. Metaverse supporters sustain a more optimistic point of view than their colleagues, with better financial achievement and higher current and expected profit margins. However, much depends on how the Metaverse progresses and the world advances.  

Summing up: new tools are essential to take any industry to the next level and enable planners to pursue blueprints, tell stories, and look into individuals, communities, and cities with new, data-driven insight to facilitate the industry’s adaptation to the value of the Metaverse while improving lifestyle, individuals well-being and fighting for climate change by showing real-world examples.

So what does your Metaverse perspective look like?

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Does your workforce own the mindset for an effective S&OP?
Thinkers360
December 21, 2019

S&OP is a standard business planning process impacted by constant internal or external pressures and challenges. For Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to operate successfully, you should be transparent, concentrated and engaged to what you intend to accomplish. Assess the mindset of your company to self-judge your S&OP efficiency and evaluate your weaknesses. Organisations no longer can predict how their brand-loyalty will last among consumers. Why? Nothing seems to work like before; a growing combination of products, channels and costumers’ portfolios are ampler than ever, making it complicated for companies to foresee when and how to act. Customers are shopping online, comparing goods, plus they have a more extensive selection of products to choose. Consequently, we don't expect them to be tightly bound to a particular supplier. Companies should better start making some changes to assure they also get cost-effective business in the longer run. Technological alternatives that help to create insights Nowadays, Data is becoming a more valuable-providing solution to such problems. It supports companies to get insights into customers preferences and demands, as it is the centre for Analytics, crucial to making correct evaluations by using several means to pull out the best value from data. For instance: employees don’t want to settle down in the same position forever, but aspire to keep advancing instead. Consequently, enterprises should be more sensitive to their personnel and processes. People and company stand-points are worth too. However, technology without support is not enough to make organisation projections. Technological alternatives helping to create insights To cope with these challenges, organisations should assess how and where to start an in-depth examination of their enterprise. Then, deciding on how to redesign their roles and processes. Most of all, it is crucial for enterprises to get going planning the future right away! The implementation of S&OP requires businesses to take steps towards producing more value and accomplish their long-term objective rapidly. Every small step will avoid you to come up to a full stop; if not, other competitors will leave you behind. Conclusion: the state of mind is an essential element for consistent-individual performance. The results of some survey indicate that this state is one of the most critical drivers for S&OP effectiveness.

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Training insights and change management on Advanced Supply Chain Thinking