What I am about to share with you is so profound yet so simple to implement that you will be amazed at how quickly you can streamline and improve upon your supply chain – even on the most complex systems.
And these principles I am about to divulge will work for you, whether you are a novice or a seasoned professional…
As you may know, when I first began my career in supply chain management at the ripe young age of seventeen, little did I know … and no one told me – or rather, “‘warned me” that education does not fully prepare you for what you will encounter in the “real world”.
Back at that time, I eagerly wanted to jump in with both feet and leave a permanent mark on the industry that would say “ROB WAS HERE” by way of time savings, improved efficiencies and reduced costs that would make me an invaluable asset to the team. Did I sure have a lot to learn!
Not only was I NOT promoted to President within my first year of working in the field but three very valuable lessons started to emerge and become indisputably clear. And these three lessons would lay the foundation to my more than thirty years of unsurpassed success in supply chain and logistics management.
Not even a Master’s Degree in Logistics from Canfield University could prepare me for what I was about to discover, working in the real world, which was:
Unfortunately for me, I did not have the luxury of being mentored by experts, which meant that I had to learn the old fashioned way – through trials, errors and eventually, successes.
As I climbed my way up the corporate ladder … even spending time as a rocket engineer and business development specialist, I quickly learned that...
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