Purple Haze or Stairway to Heaven?

Relax, nothing involving the musician formerly known as some obscure symbol or Led Zeppelin will follow. But, you have certainly noticed that my early-onset ramblings do stray, and wander outside the carefully drawn lines of supply chain management and logistics, and trucks, and DCs, and all that.

The "Why?" of the matter is simple. Without context, we are nothing but beasts of burden, bearing heavy loads and heavier responsibilities in getting stuff from here to there, and into the hands of those who will use, apply, transform, or consume whatever it is. We are, then, simply costs to be managed, reduced, squeezed, or eliminated by any means necessary. So, we, to transform the scenery and elevate our roles in the grand drama of enterprise performance, must see, and be seen, as what we truly are: engines of success, and masters of high-payback investment, in nearly all aspects of leveraging talent, processes, assets, and opportunites for optimal return on investment, equity, and assets, and for sustainable profitability.

Further, we stand no chance whatever of rising to our potential without mastering the mission-critical tools of leadership and communications, in working with suppliers, customers, service providers, peers and colleagues, and the titans who sit in the C-level slots. In short, without full and complete attention to these non-SCM elements, we cannot be full and complete organizational business partners, or full and complete professional practitioners.

Ergo, my devious and not-so-secret tactics to keep on inserting such issues into the blog posts. Stay tuned. The fun will only continue. And, I really enjoy making people crazy by coloring outside the lines.