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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Bloated inventories. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. The larger the number of days of inventory, the greater the cash drag.) Changes in Inventory Year-end inventory values by industry from Y Charts. The story continues. Rising inflation.

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Transversing the Paradox River

Supply Chain Shaman

Building the Effective Global Supply Chain. We speak about the need to move from a functional understanding to a global, holistic capabilities, but the traditional supply chain leader defines bonus incentives and process performance goals based on functional metrics. In 2004, my research showed a bell curve of innovators and laggards.

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Untangling The Tangled Web We Weave

Supply Chain Shaman

The year was 2004. This was before the split of Kraft into Mondelēz and Heinz, at the beginning of the implementation of Kraft’s global supply chain strategy. (He His position was that the research that I was writing was not being aggressive enough in the definition of global supply chain planning requirements. The reason?

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Source: S&P Global and Other Sources.

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Disruption in China Ripples Across Global Supply Chains in April 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. Global Manufacturing Output Levels Declined. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. The shift from 2004-to 2006 is impressive. Unilever, for the first time, announced a global supply chain director.