Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
Used from the 17th century until the late mid-20th century, a ball and chain found in 2009 in the United Kingdom from the 17th century was an 18 pound ball six inches in diameter. Figure 3: Continuous Improvement Programs. Let’s start with a definition. A thirty-five inch chain connected it to the prisoners’ leg.
AB&R
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
In fact, studies by Harvard Business Review and Bain & Company looked at the difference investing in innovation makes during periods of major financial challenges, such as the 2007-2009 Great Recession. It gives us ways to improve efficiency, cut costs, and increase agility at a time when we need it most.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 31, 2017
Continuous Improvement Processes. Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% In a large company, the average supply chain leader manages hundreds, even thousands, of cost reduction programs simultaneously.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. For the past four years, as we have done our work, we have tracked Novo Nordisk’s continued improvement against the pharmaceutical peer group. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015.
Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Yet, even as shippers have increased access to this technology, the 3PL market continues to grow. 3PL market has grown by roughly 7% annually since 2009 and is expected to reach $170 billion by the end of 2016. In fact, according to Armstrong & Associates, the U.S. What is driving this growth is much-needed industry expertise.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 28, 2015
In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. 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).
Supply Chain Trend
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum.
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