Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on A New Metric Changes Perception of State of Global Trade
Supply Chain Digest
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The Ton Kilometer Measure has Grown Significantly since 2008 while Traditional Metric is Flat
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Supply Chain Digest
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The Ton Kilometer Measure has Grown Significantly since 2008 while Traditional Metric is Flat
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 18, 2023
In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. ” I feel like we are riding a gondola in the middle of an intense snowstorm. Tougher than most understand.
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SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use?
DELMIA Quintiq
MARCH 29, 2023
Going back 14 years ago, the logistics industry dramatically reduced capital expenditure in 2008 when the great recession hit. In fact, the outperforming logistics vendors today (based on profitability and revenue growth metrics) are the ones that were extra cautious on capital expenditure in the years following the recession.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 28, 2016
The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession.
Kinaxis
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. General News Products Response Management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain management 2008 US beef protest in South Korea Beef Business Business process Cargill Colorado Competitive advantage Customer Supply chain'
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. As long as companies are motivated by functional metrics, inventory management will be an enigma. Transition functional metrics to focus on reliability. Let me explain. Mistake #5.
The Logistics of Logistics
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
According to Supply Chain Quarterly , Quarter 4, 2011 issue: “Supply chain scorecards typically focus on operational metrics. Holm MS PCC CPCC is a Professional Certified Coach since 2008, focusing on executive and career development along with personal branding. People skills do matter. October 4, 2017 1pm EDT [link].
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 29, 2014
As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.
Resilinc
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
But to make their strongest case, SCRM advocates need to focus on one key metric: return on investment. It’s important to frame the program in strategic terms and to ensure that decision-makers understand the linkages between the tactical objectives of the SCRM and key metrics such as revenue, earnings, brand, and shareholder value.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 1, 2015
I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.
Resilinc
JUNE 15, 2021
According to Statista, the world’s merchant container ship fleet grew from 11 million metric tons (mt) of deadweight tonnage (a measure of a vessel’s weight-carrying capacity) to 275 million mt in 2020—a 2500% increase. Container ships are the backbone of world trade.
6 River Systems
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. in Q1 2017, the lowest since 2008.”
Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 8, 2015
That was certainly true at Starbucks, which went through some difficult times in 2008. Contrary to what many people believe, investing in employees is not dilutive [to a company’s financial results and shareholder value] — it’s actually accretive,” said Schultz, pointing to the company’s turnaround and growth since 2008 as proof.
Supply Chain Opz
JANUARY 29, 2020
Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. Ranking of Supply Chain Books We're sure some of you've been using Google Scholar to find related publications. References - Moed, H. & Tang, C.
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Money flows have also slowed, after trending sideways since the 2008 financial crisis. “This metric has surged in recent years due to the internet,” she writes, “and the pandemic has intensified the dash to digital. No surprise, given national lockdowns.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The PCA Corporation lost their case in the court of public opinion in 2008, but the federal conviction is seven years later. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% The food recall is the largest in US history. The sentence is groundbreaking. Was it profits before safety?
Supply Chains Rock
JULY 7, 2009
Doing its part, IBM has just released its corporate responsibility report for 2008 and it dedicates a big part of it to its supply chain. By the end of 2008, we had completed a cumulative total of 553 initial audits; including expansion into three additional growth market countries (36 initial audits): Argentina, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Material Handling & Logistics
JULY 24, 2018
significantly improved their ability to generate cash in 2017, producing the strongest working capital performance since 2008. days seen in 2008, which was driven largely in changes made in response to the recession. The 1000 largest non-financial companies in the U.S. This is a significant improvement over the high CCC of 37.3
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014.
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.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 29, 2015
In studies from the periods of 2006-2008, there was slow adoption of 15-20%, and today, the supply chain leader prefers a cloud-based solution. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. In 2002, there was no interest. The reason?
Kinaxis
JUNE 1, 2016
The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service. This, my friends, is why we need to get back to CORE supply chain metrics when measuring the Top 25.
Kinaxis
APRIL 10, 2015
It’s a Sunday morning in May 2008. Prioritized action lists based on impact to your customers or whatever key metrics drive your business can ensure that planners are working on what matters. It can mean the difference between getting fired and getting a promotion. based electronics manufacturer. Act Faster.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 15, 2015
2009 was an exception due to the 2008–2009 recession.) Implement a Transportation Management System (TMS) to comprehensively manage logistics surrounding and including the shipping function as well as related performance metrics. Such a system affords a strong competitive advantage to shippers.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 5, 2015
Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In the period of 2008-2009, both supply chains made some major shifts. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. It is seldom a step change. How Have They Done?
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Figure 2 contrasts the state of cash-to-cash cycles between 2000-2003 and 2008-2011. Hosting this webinar series is one of the favorite parts of my job as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. I think both factors are at play. While hospital inventories are falling, the inventories of suppliers are rising.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 14, 2015
However, in 2008 when the business grew +20%, inventories declined substantially, and part of his team won a Syngenta internal award, it became clear. In 2008 the market was ballistic. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.
Supply Chain Movement
AUGUST 26, 2015
Although Honda, as one of their customers, initiated the first recall related to the Takata airbarg in 2008, only in May 2015 mr. Takada made an agreement with the US authorities on how to deal with the issue. So what role can supply chain play in the event top level management seems to underestimate these issues?
MIT Supply Chain
APRIL 3, 2014
While reliable service and low prices are still important, these metrics have become prerequisites for commercial success. One reason is the increased focus on cost control in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008. “We “When I started customers cared about price and service,” said Wiehoff.
Global Trade Management
DECEMBER 7, 2012
metrics that really impact the bottom line; the Leaders in our survey. arviem, founded in 2008, has grown organically to become the leading service provider for real-time cargo monitoring. ► 2008. (7). Supply chain Leaders. deliver on time in full (OTIF) on 95.7% of occasions and have an. impressive 15.3 Post a Comment.
Lucas
JULY 3, 2018
This year’s survey showed the growing importance of labor-related metrics in assessing DC performance. Trend One: Labor Metrics Dominate . Every year the WERC report lists the top 12 metrics used by DC and warehouse managers and tracks how those rankings change from year to year. Overtime hours to total hours worked.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. In the recession of 2008, it took the average consumer products company three-to-five months to sense the recession and redefine product plans.
Intelligent Audit
OCTOBER 27, 2022
In 2008, Dr. Raymond Panko published a paper detailing examples of human error in data entry. Most shippers have metrics to monitor the standard Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – spend, volumes, cost/shipment, cost/kg, cost/mile, etc. His findings? And that number is likely to increase as spreadsheets grow more complex.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 4, 2018
For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.
Arkieva
AUGUST 8, 2016
the “inventory to sales” ratio (inventory levels divided by a month’s worth of sales) spiked in late 2008/early 2009 as the recession caught companies with way more inventory than needed versus suddenly shrinking demand. “In the US economy, overall inventory levels have been ticking up in recent years. Read Full Article.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 4, 2018
For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.
NC State SCRC
OCTOBER 3, 2016
The production and use of biobased products replacing petroleum-based products has the potential to reduce GHG emissions up to 10 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents. Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa, briefly ran in the 2008 presidential race and was considered by Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate in 2016.
Arkieva
APRIL 7, 2016
In her excellent book ‘Supply Chain Metrics that Matter’ (Cecere, L.M., Supply Chain Metrics that Matter, John Wiley & Sons, 2015), Lora Cecere shows how we can reveal the ‘best-practice-frontier’ using so-called ‘orbit charts’. It took a hit from 2007 to 2008, most probably because of the financial crisis and it never recovered.
Infosys Supply Chain Management
AUGUST 10, 2012
In our March commentary, the takeaway was that these rapidly changing retailer business models imply that organizations can no longer assume the same organizational structures of accountability where marketing and supply chain teams supporting physical stores and online fulfillment reside in separate organizational entities with conflicting metrics.
Infosys Supply Chain Management
JUNE 20, 2013
IT enablement in areas like Mobile work management, Health and Safety, Metrics monitoring (KPI) etc. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. A focused program like RCM is expensive therefore being selective on your key Assets helps. You dont want to spend your energies on unimportant "Lots"!
Infosys Supply Chain Management
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.) December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. Demand Planning is a cyclic process and the last step in the cycle is a formal review of the forecast with the ongoing Sales. November 2009. October 2009.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
In the fall of 2008 I attended a major consumer packaged goods company’s global customer team meeting. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Reflections. My insights on the topic are now a decade old.
Infosys Supply Chain Management
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. He also spoke about IBMs desperate need to partner with SIs for Asset Management as opportunities are huge in this area.
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