Other Good Entries:
“Okay who put in the suggestion box eliminating my position?”
Earl W. Engleman
Bunzl Distribution
A close second place!
“Three votes for pizza, one vote for Tex-Mex. Well, at least that’s SOME progress.”
Jon Mellor
GS1
"No, Veronica, cutting Bob's salary by 50% because he's the warehouse manager is not a reasonable suggestion."
Steve Hopper
Inviscid Consulting
“Come on, Barney, you said 'You can’t get blood from a stone!' last week!”
Karen Owsowitz
System Planning Corp.
“Due to budget cuts this meeting has been cancelled.”
Scott Wright
Fosters Group
“It will take a special kind of team to get through these tough times. Specifically, it will take a much smaller team.”
Kevin Catallo
Honeywell
“I know that we shouldn’t judge during brainstorming, but ‘Fire Bob’ just seems a bit harsh…”
Dan Mahoney
Intel International
“Sorry, just got this note from the CFO… All Supply Chain Brian Storming has been outsourced.”
Chris Stroop
Intel Corporation
“OK, ‘Stop selling; eliminate all outbound freight’ is on the board. Let’s keep ideas flowing.”
Michele Rae
Plantronics
“No, I don’t think that eliminating the VP of Supply Chain is going to be an acceptable solution.”
Rick Feltenberger
The Supply Chain Center
“Based on Tom and Sue's earlier input, they won't be attending this meeting anymore. So who would like to start off today's meeting?”
Dwight Boehm,
CF Managing Movement
"Is firing all of the "so-called forecasters" really going to save us any money?"
Dwight Thomas
Alcatel-Lucent
"Now that we are featured on SCDigest better do some real brain storming."
Indraneel Dabhade
Clemson University
“Management should be joining us shortly. Their Learjet was delayed returning from their convention in the Caymans.”
Catherine Ochse
Graybar
“Supply chain, cost reduction?” Isn't that an oxymoron?”
Jeff Givens
Best Buy
"Okay, who's the wise guy that submitted 'Stop wasting time with cost reduction brainstorming meetings?'"
Trevor Hanlon
Clorox
"A consultant told the CEO that on average supply chains contain 25% waste, now he wants to know which one of us is the “waste”?"
Bradley R Morris
NSE Products, Inc.
“You know if we just leave the stuff where it is we would save a bundle.”
Michael Holub
UNFI
“Write the meeting title bigger…we don’t have enough ideas to fill the board otherwise!”
Jeff Joyce
Ringside, Inc.
"Okay, the first idea to cut costs from our suggestion box is to stop having Supply Chain Cost Reduction Brainstorming Sessions."
Richard Murphy
“In a effort to reduce cost and paper, you will have to memorize the following, no note taking will be permitted.”
David Counts
Graybar Electric
“Our facilitator couldn’t be here today, so, I’ll be leading today’s session. I can’t find any section in our procedures manual that explains How To Brainstorm.”
Jack Everett
Triad Logistics Partners, LLC
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