Chief Pricing Officer

This blog has covered a lot of ground over the last eight months, from economics jokes to retail and wholesale pricing concerns, from the meat industry to the president’s inaugural address.

Though there’s a little something for everyone in the pricing field on the CPO blog, at its core it is dedicated to the issues touching the manufacturing pricer, strategist, executive.

Today’s post offers a handful of articles that create a sobering retrospective. My hope is that by acknowledging reality and embracing the means to a solution, the headline in 2010 will be a banner proclamation that the manufacturing industry has not only survived, but transformed itself into a model industry of transparency and intelligent business.

2009
The Collapse of Manufacturing
Economist
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13144864

“The destructive global power of the financial crisis became clear last year. The immenisty of the manufacturing crisis is still sinking in, largely because it is seen in national terms - indeed, often nationalistic ones. In fact manufacturing is also caught up in a global whirlwind…

2007
For Manufacturing, a Recession Has Arrived
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/business/28leonhardt-web.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=manufacturing&st=cse

“Is the entire United States economy in danger of going the way of the manufacturing sector? Is it possible that we’re headed for a real recession?”

The manufacturing industry has a chance to reinvent itself and our hope lies in transparency. Transparency of price is a powerful point to start the ripple effect that will change the entire conversation throughout the supply chain -  and the economy. From another recent Economist article, this one on the finance industry, we are offered a truth that should be equally applied to all industries:

“When information is relevant, standardised and public, it fosters intelligent decision-making.”
Economist
February 21, 2009
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13144773

To me, that sentiment gives hope for the possibilities yet to be fully realized in manufacturing industry.

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