Interview with Matt Johnson... Lessons learned from those who were involved with Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®) from the very beginning
Mon, 2011-12-19 16:23 — Steve Brady
In this interview, I talk with Matt Johnson about the earliest days of CPFR®, and in fact we go back to when it first started, and was known as CFAR. For those that go back far enough, we remember when CPFR® was the 9 Step model. In this interview, Matt reveals how it transformed into the "wheel" or "Quadrant" model we know today.
From the Interview: "More important than that depiction has the realization that CPFR needs to have variance because different companies have different business issues that they’re trying to address through collaboration. I chaired a committee to define a process that we called retail event collaboration which takes promotional events and drives a collaboration based upon promotions certainly with forecasts and historical data there but as more of a validation point or background data. Others, like Fred Bowman of GDA, have worked on different models where you have distributor based collaboration and then more recently we’ve had a model where we’ve had assortment-based merchandise-driven collaboration for the fashion, apparel and specialty retail industries... What’s nice is that CPFR has spawned processes that are more industry specific over time and that can be easily used by different pairs of trading partners as a guide to more effective collaboration. It’s not just a one size fits all anymore.”
Chris Sellers - The Start of CPFR®
Thu, 2011-12-01 15:53 — Steve Brady
Technical and political Lessons learned from those who were involved with Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®) from the very beginning… Chris Sellers - Interim CEO, Mobeam In this installment of interviews about the beginnings of the CPFR movement, we interview Chris Sellers, who is currently the CEO of Mobeam. Previously, as CEO of Agentrics, Mr. Sellers led the world's leading retailers in business innovation; global sourcing/procurement; logistics; supply chain; and product lifecycle management and development. Chris was another central figure in the emergence of CPFR® while with Syncra Systems – a subsidiary of Benchmarking Partners and an early entrant in the B2B space in the late ‘90’s.
Andre Martin - Interview Andre Martin Father of DRP
Submitted by Steve Brady on Fri, 2011-11-04 15:15
In this Voice of VICS I talk with Andre Martin- co-founder Red Prairie Collaborative Flowcasting Group, LLC. He is considered the father of Distribution Resource Planning, or DRP. He talks about the early days, when he was developing the concept of DRP while working at Abbott, and how that has evolved into Flow Casting among other innovations.
For those that don't know about DRP, it is a close relation to the familiar MRP and MRPII, and ERP. You can find his book at Amazon, DRP Distribution Resource Planning
Podcast:  16_Martin.mp3
Steve Brady with Randy Salley, VP for Supply Chain IT at Hewlett-Packard
Fri, 2011-02-18 11:45 — Steve Brady
In this interview (recorded LAST YEAR in anticipation of the 2010 VICS Achievement awards) I talk with Randy Salley, VP for Supply Chain IT at Hewlett-Packard. Mr Salley shares his thoughts on the value of collaboration. For this interview and more, visit VICS.org Check back--we will be sharing interviews leading up to THIS year's recognition of the VICS Annual Collaborative Commerce Achievement Award winners.
Interview with Leroy Allen for VICS
Submitted by Steve Brady on Thu, 2011-02-10 09:54
I conducted this interview with Leroy Allen, the VP for Logistics Planning and Forecasting at Lowe's. This interview was part of the preparation for VICS 13th Annual Collaborative Commerce Achievement Awards. Listen as Leroy shares some of the challenges they face and how Lowe's faces them in partnership with their trading partners.
Podcast: LeRoy_Allen_FINAL.mp3
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