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Lean and Green Supply Chain Initiatives Can Be Complimentary

ModusLink Corporation

Previous commentaries on Value Unchained noted a recent University of Tennessee research study, “Green, Lean and Global Supply Chain Strategies.” In the posting, Beyond the Research Part Three: Green and Lean Global Supply Chain Strategies , the researchers at the University of Tennessee made a rather important observation.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). First Phase: 2002-2006. What suppliers need help with cost (LEAN, labor, freight,…)? Delivery Metrics: Perfect order delivery although good to continually refine.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

I dusted off a 2002 presentation from P&G to share with the audience. Yet, the attendees wanted to discuss Lean warehousing. In this survey we find out some benchmark metrics on the number of demand planners per item, and the rate of adoption of demand and supply chain planning systems. Aggressively Get and Use Channel Data.

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Shippers Dissatisfied with 3PLs’ Dinosaur Technologies

Supply Chain Collaborator

The first study of shipper satisfaction in 2002 revealed only 27% of shippers was satisfied with the IT capabilities offered by their 3PL provider. However the carrier management, rate management, rate benchmarking and a host of other performance metrics are absent from the 3PL-based tools.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

” I have been studying the evolution of inventory technologies as an industry analyst since 2002. We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. This week, I published an in-depth analysis on the topic. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. Having to comply with more stringent customer delivery requirements is certainly one factor driving demand, with On-Time In-Full (OTIF) becoming a more critical metric.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Public Perception of & A Brief Timeline of Moments from the American Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

1930s : Lean Manufacturing. These concepts become widely adopted in the 1990s as Lean Manufacturing. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a hierarchy of metrics developed by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. Manufacturing Enterprise Integration Act of 2002.