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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The promise of a well-intended consultant just sounds sooooooo good. 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.)

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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The use of market data decreases demand latency (time to sense and translate market shifts).

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Lora Cecere on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter

AIMMS

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Thanks for your time today. So I sat down at my kitchen table in the winter of 2011. Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. People like stories.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Lately, as I reflected on my conversations with John (fictitious name) when I was at AMR Research, I yearn to go back in time. For example, client-server to cloud architectures offered great promise for process innovation, but companies just moved their processes without asking how to drive new levels of value from technology.

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Introducing Supply Chain Power Influencers on Twitter

Supply Chain Opz

In 2011, a research team consists of the experts from University of Michigan and Yahoo, Inc published the article named " Everyone’s an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter ". Other factors such as size of network, type of networks each person is in, length of time, how active each user is, are also used to calculate a final score.

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Reimagine Supply Chain of the Future – agile, resilient, and balanced – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

They built risk assessment in their DNA to make their value chain as resilient as possible at the same time keeping an ability to adapt and change to market dynamics and customer demand volatility. What are the learnings from Covid disaster that leaders will incorporate into future supply chains? Case Study Agility: ZARA.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Nick is a master of influence skills and building cross-functional, horizontal processes. In this post we share our take on his journey.