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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story.

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Manufacturing production reportedly decreased for the second consecutive month.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

I have worked with this client since 2004. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus on the level of inventory.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

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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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. The Global Manufacturing Output sub-index reportedly dropped to a contraction value of 48.5 Manufacturing Indices. in March to 46.0

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. “The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. What can we learn?

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US Economy Still Growing But at Slower Pace

Material Handling & Logistics

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in March, and the overall economy grew for the 107th consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. Fiore, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: .