Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

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.

Baltimore 250

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Back in 2004, food writer Jon Springer ( @_JonSpringer ) reported, “Supermarkets have traditionally done well during periods of food inflation.”[8] 4] Jaewon Kang, “ Supermarkets Are Stockpiling Inventory as Food Costs Rise ,” The Wall Street Journal, 6 July 2021. [5] Department of Agriculture, November 2021. [3]

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels. The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting.

Inventory Reduction 74

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Driving manufacturing excellence without a clear definition of supply chain excellence throws the supply chain out of balance, decreasing customer service and increasing inventory and overall cost. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns. It proves to be more resilient.

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ModusLink Corporation

JANUARY 5, 2022

It has its first definition published only in the beginning of the nineties by the Council of Logistics Management (Bri-2004, S. 4) and thus still represents a young sector of Logistics. Figure 1(The Reverse Logistics Process) (Chi-2018). The Figure above clearly illustrates the core elements of the Reverse logistics Process.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2022

… Traditionally, inventory counts [have been] a complex exercise done manually about once a year but RFID technology enables retailers to monitor stock monthly bringing accuracy from 60% to over 90%.” in 2004 to $0.38 ” To learn more about the history of barcodes, read my article published on National Barcode Day.[3].

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2019

Stuck, the company struggled with customer service levels and high inventory write-offs. This case study from 2004 outlines a process to manage complexity and improve agility. The process helped World Kitchen manage inventories through bankruptcy filing in 2002. the organizational dynamics were tough. The result?

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. LTCM crisis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data. They all sound alike and each company makes similar claims of how the implementation of supply chain planning improves costs, lowers inventory and improves the return on assets.

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Valogix

MARCH 1, 2023

Celebrating 19 years of our partnership with SAP and SAP Business One.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 25, 2014

Better forecast accuracy will further our efforts to improve customer service, without the burden of carrying unnecessary inventory.”. In 2004, Campbell Soup Company was the first company to implement Terra’s solutions and reap the benefits of Demand Sensing’s improved forecast accuracy.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MARCH 1, 2018

factories expanded in February at the fastest rate since May 2004, indicating sustained strength in manufacturing as demand remains solid, according to figures from the Institute for Supply Management released on March 1. Index of customer inventories fell to 43.7 Factory inventories gauge rose to 56.7 up from 59.1 in January.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

Companies cannot save their way to supply chain excellence with cost-cutting and inventory management — customer back capabilities. In parallel, SAP launched technology platforms: NetWeaver in 2004 followed by HANA 2.0 Gradually companies realize that the supply chain is a capability, not a function. The goal?

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

Customer Service Books Related Resources - Supply Chain Books - Purchasing Book - Six Sigma Books - Operations Management Book - Inventory Control Book - Lean Books - International Business Book Last review and update: March 20, 2020 & Murthy, B. Journal of the academy of marketing science, 32(3), 293-311.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

The first report was published when I working at AMR Research (now Gartner) in 2004. A supply chain team improved forecast accuracy by 22%, but did not improve inventory or customer service. As an industry analyst in the supply chain planning market for fifteen years, this month, I will publish my tenth report on S&OP. The reason?

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NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2021

The majority of the people working within it were inventory logisticians, not supply chain logisticians. In 2017, the composition of the SNS inventory was largely determined by the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE), which issued a strategic plan outlining the key areas for inventory investment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

I have worked with this client since 2004. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

While the name has changed, the methodology has remained fairly constant, with a only a few changes, since 2004. The research tries to establish “ who did supply chain best ” by looking at a weighted formula of Year-over-Year Growth, Return on Assets (ROA), and Inventory Turns for the Fortune 500 companies.

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Material Handling & Logistics

APRIL 2, 2018

Inputs, expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports, were negatively impacted by weather conditions; Asian holidays; lead time extensions; steel and aluminum disruptions across many industries; supplier labor issues; and transportation difficulties due to driver and equipment shortages.

Manufacturing Procurement 57

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered? Analytics Deployment.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Morgan indicated in part: “ Near-term forward looking indicators also headed lower, most notably the finished goods orders-to-inventory ratio which fell further below 1,0 from an already contractionary reading.” The overall pace of decline was noted as the steepest since this particular survey began in April 2004. from the 44.8

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PINC

JUNE 16, 2020

However, with 66% of logistics budgets spent on moving only 10% of total inventory, the remaining 90% of inventory at rest is not optimized for bottom-line impact and efficiency gains. Gartner has estimated supply chain management software to be a $17 billion addressable market growing at approximately 10% a year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Prior acquisitions include: Demand Management, (often termed Demand Solutions) supply chain planning for mid-market, 2004 for $9.5M Optiant, inventory optimization, 2010, $3.3M In general, solution innovation lags the industry. MID Retail, 2014, assortment planning, price undisclosed. Adapachain, 2016, integration, price undisclosed.

Logility 60

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C3 Solutions

JULY 28, 2020

What's interesting is how the use of IoT technologies to track inventory throughout the supply chain can dovetail with the kind of visibility you gain when you implement a best-of-breed dock scheduling system from C3 Solutions. in 2004 to $0.38 IoT Evolution. Inside and Out. Driving Revenue. A Perfect Fit for Fashion.

Internet of things 78

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PINC

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Union City, CA – February 7th, 2020 – PINC , the number-one provider of digital yard management and inventory robotics solutions to the world’s leading brands, is honored to be named as one of the four finalists in the New Product Category for the 2020 MHI Innovation Award with PINC AIR. ABOUT PINC.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. Teams continuously balance cost, customer service, asset utilization and inventory. Based on the reference calls, I am not sure that this will be possible. What am I hearing? Fifteen years later, I expected more.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

The authors of this report noted that manufacturing output fell at second-steepest rate since this survey began in early 2004. The report further indicated that Inputs, expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports, continued to constrain production expansion. in March to 46.0 Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012. What can we learn? This is a group of leaders.

Optimal Sourcing 283

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Arkieva

MAY 12, 2016

On the inventory axis we will show inventory turns. From Figure 5 we see a premium gross profit for Company 1 in the period 2004-2007. The 10% EBIT corresponding with an average inventory turn of 3, as shown in Figure 8. From Figure 8 we see the inventory has been moving in the direction of 3 turns.

Benchmarking 60

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PINC

JULY 29, 2020

Since its founding in 2004, PINC has been a pioneer in providing real-time visibility and workflow orchestration to yard operations across distribution centers and manufacturing plants worldwide.

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

Insufficient inventory visibility throughout the supply chain. The first version of the MMOG/LE assessment was introduced in 2004 and is in its fifth revision today. Lack of or ineffective periodic review of supplier assessments against customer requirements/policies. But, the industry has been here before and fixed it!

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 9, 2015

Since the offline world must now fulfill such demands, organizations need to manage their business in real-time throughout – including supply chain, inventory management, other logistics, customer service, etc. – He then served, from 1998-2004, as Chairman and CEO of priceline.com, which he took public. to meet customer needs.

Retail 100

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PINC

APRIL 27, 2020

Since 2004 and with hundreds of locations deployed around the globe, PINC Yard Management System helps the largest global companies to identify, locate, and orchestrate inventory throughout the supply chain predictably and cost-effectively. . To be recognized for that is very reassuring and flattering.” ” About PINC.

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PINC

AUGUST 19, 2020

.” Since its founding in 2004, PINC has been a pioneer in providing real-time visibility and workflow orchestration to yard operations across distribution centers and manufacturing plants worldwide. It gives companies a cost-effective way to move inventory faster, optimize their supply chain, and reduce transportation costs.

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 16, 2015

Triple-A Supply Chain In 2004, Professor Hau Lee of Stanford University published the article titled " The Triple-A Supply Chain " in Harvard Business Review. Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al. In short, you can be more responsive if you trim wastes from your current operations and become "Lean".

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