How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 5 When I think about supply chain priorities, I see three interlocked circles of cost, security of supply, and compliance. These are three equal priorities, whose ranking changes depending upon the needs of the customer. In times of war, security of supply tops the list because without […]
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 4 My first thoughts about productivity in conjunction with the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) were selfish as I needed the thousands of times productivity increase that AI would give my engineers. It was imperative to accelerate the development of features and performance enhancements as well as to
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HOW LYTICA BECAME A UNIQUE ANALYTICS COMPANY • PART 3 Where do new ideas come from? How can we know which ones will change the world? Ideas come from thoughts that seem to materialize in the mind out of nothing. If they pass some internal filtering thresholds, they may be expressed. Some thoughts are good
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How Lytica became a unique analytics company • Part 2 The fact that no one knew what I should be paying for a component puzzled me. Each year I would receive cost reduction targets for materials. These were dictates communicated by accounting and were either set to achieve margin goals or by using some pseudo-scientific
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How Lytica became a unique analytics company • Part 1 The origin of Lytica and our products has been covered in blogs such as The Genesis of “Bradley’s Law” and others that can be found on SCM Roundtable. Our history, formed from deep technology roots, has given us a unique perspective on supply chain issues
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In my last blog, Manufacturing Sector- The growth engine of the economy, I touched upon the complex nature of business stemming from globalization and international markets. In today’s unpredictable times, the need for understanding not only the trend of the economy but its respective business sectors, commodities and currency markets while foreseeing their course to
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While reporting on President Trump’s change in strategy (as evidenced by the April 6, 2017 missile attack on a Syrian airfield), CNN quoted Iron Man Mike Tyson as saying, “Everyone has a strategy until they’re punched in the face.” This simple logic can also apply to your supply chain strategy; if you are not using
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A company should expect to pay for a specific electronic device – a price commensurate with their Competitiveness within that particular commodity. This Competitiveness is the measure of how the supply chain sees that company. Ken Bradley, Founder & CTO Lytica Inc. When Ken Bradley founded Lytica in 2005 as a consultancy practice, his primary
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Sustainability is not a buzzword anymore, however, the concept of sustainability remains abstract and complex if it lacks context to make it relatable to people’s day-to-day experience. Though everyone may have different understandings and interpretations of sustainability, we all know that the goal is to minimize negative environmental impact resulting from human activities. This explains
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GDP dynamics – An important factor for developing supply chain strategies Manufacturing sector has been the growth engine of the global economy for the better part of the last two centuries. The transition from an agrarian to manufacturing economy is still an important indicator of growth, prosperity and rise in living standards for a country.
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