Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Source E2open Shipping Index). As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Source E2open Shipping Index). As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2016

Launched in 2014 and brought to you by the eWorld Procurement & Supply team, The Procurement Summit will provide senior purchasing, sourcing and supply chain executives across the North of England with an unmissable opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest industry innovations, best practice and new technology solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. In table 1, I compare ten-year averages (2001-2011) for food manufacturing companies. You got it! It is a low probability that this will ever happen.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2016

Looking back at history… When I was a Gartner analyst in 2001, I tracked over 400 trading exchanges. With cloud-based analytics, non-relational database open source code sharing and advancements in predictive, prescriptive and cognitive analytics, what is old, can become new again. Today, there are a handful. Embrace Glass Boxes.

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