February 9, 2015 / Asset Maintenance / Mining
I spent a couple of years at an underground mine and learned a lot about equipment maintenance strategies, enough that I was able to write a whitepaper about it. One of the things I learned is how important it is to improve the ratio of planned …Read More
January 28, 2015 / Spend Management / Supply Chain
Many people equate Spend Management with the process of Strategic Sourcing! Personally, I have always viewed it in a much broader sense – the “total cost” of acquiring and managing raw materials, goods and services for use in …Read More
January 21, 2015 / Consulting / Office Politics
If you give a mouse a cookie… I‘m sure most of you are familiar with the phrase above, and some of you probably remember this book from grammar school. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, open a new tab, Google it, then come back. …Read More
January 6, 2015 / Consulting
Metrics is your source for the latest trends in operations management and business and process improvement. Metrics is supported by a staff of select bloggers from USC Consulting Group, a global operations management consulting firm …Read More