Kinaxis

APRIL 4, 2019

The article reminds us of what Merck R&D head Roger Perlmutter said about the subject back in 2013. “We How many times have you heard we need to take care of our data before we can start a project? How many times have you heard we need to take care of our data before we can start a project? One in twenty.

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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).

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Kinaxis

JUNE 9, 2017

and changed CEOs many times in the past 10 years. times higher than the second-ranked supply chain, with Samsung at 15.1. Microsoft acquired them in 2013, the company then laid off 12,500 people in 2014, then acquired Alcatel Lucent only to sell off a business unit to Foxconn. Once again – Peer vs Gartner.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 9, 2013

It will be launched on a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a report that will run in our May newsletter. To understand supply chain excellence, we have been studying pattern recognition for industry peer groups at the intersection of the metrics in the Supply Chain Effective Frontier of growth, profitability, cycles and complexity.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In Open Content research, we are dependent on companeis giving us their time to help us complete research studies. In 2013, we will continue to serve this community by expanding services. This week, we are also announcing our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit to be held at the Phoenician on September 11th-12th, 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

At the time, I had just left AMR Research. AMR had just been bought by the Gartner Group. The most popular posts are on demand management and Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. I try to have a good time with this blog. This is the third birthday of the Supply Chain Shaman. I created this blog three years ago.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

You put time, energy, focus, and emotion into a negotiation, so naturally, you want to come out feeling as if you’ve done a good job, get a good price, or ‘won’. A “100-page-plus document was filled with “supplier shall” statements that detailed FedEx’s obligations and outlined dozens of metrics for how Dell would measure success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During The second principle is that the supply chain needs to be managed cross-functionally, end-to-end, from the customers customer to the suppliers supplier; and as such, it cannot be viewed as just another function. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” The information is sticky for a period of time, but then is gone. There just isn’t an answer. In enterprise architectures, portals proliferate, but they are not the answer.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2022

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. We live in a digital age in which, according to Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, big data is an organization’s most valuable asset. ”[3].

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. How has progress changed over time? It is time for reflections. In my opinion—it is a very biased opinion, I admit—the role of women in the workforce in supply chain has come sooooooooooo far during the time of my career. It has been a good week.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

However, I think that it is time to take a time-out. I have a short list of retailers that I am watching that I think will fail in 2013 due to the lack of this understanding. “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” is an idiom of Biblical origin. The air was thick. A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? I am saddened.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

Against this backdrop, it is interesting that many companies still depend on spreadsheets for demand planning and S&OP , as noted in the recent survey by APICS ( see Are Spreadsheets the Answer , SC Digest, September 2013 ). Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 2, 2017

Also often referred to as integrated business planning (IBP), it’s just one way many businesses are evolving to stay competitive in a changing landscape. According to data from Gartner’s 2013 S&OP Maturity Research Study, higher maturity businesses saw a 5.6% It’s “somewhere you visit, not somewhere you live.” It’s a business one.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you’re like me, today is about easing back into the work routine — like a runner stepping to the starting line and making sure his shoelaces are tied one last time before the race begins. I hope you all had a fun and relaxing holiday. What challenges and opportunities lie ahead? Here comes the starter, arm raised, pistol in hand.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2014

Roadnet was acquired by Omnitracs in late 2013, and the combined entity, which also includes FleetRisk Advisors and Sylectus , is aiming to provide its joint customers (and the market in general) with a more integrated, end-to-end fleet management solution. First, there’s the convergence of companies.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 25, 2020

In early 2013 I sat in on a lecture given by Clay to a number of senior supply chain executives at a gathering at the new 7 World Trade Center in New York. He pointed out that this is the longest comeback from any economic recession for some time, and that we continued to struggle with employment.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 22, 2020

They also give vendors inventory by SKU as well as gross margin realized, inventory turns, in-stock percentage, and, above all, the metric of Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI). Retail Link had a small beginning by just helping out with the inventory. More Than Just What Was Sold.

Retail 58

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

Kinaxis , an early pioneer in the evolution of SaaS solutions committed to the model in 2005, and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2013. Steelwedge, a Software as a Service solution of S&OP, just announced a new round of financing by Camden partners. In 2002, there was no interest. The reason? The difference?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. A Look Back. It is seldom a step change. How Have They Done?

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 8, 2019

To help them in this effort, supply chain managers would do well to look to one of the greatest connectors of all time — Leonardo da Vinci. We have established business metrics and we love to quantify our business strategies. We evaluate our successes by cost savings and shortened cycle times and order fulfilment cycles.”

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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. The rural unemployment rate has dropped below 6 percent for the first time since 2007, and from 2012-2014, we saw rural child poverty fall by 3 percentage points.”.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

ELDs have changed the way that carriers score their partners and shippers with long detention times are losing capacity in the form of time, rejected loads, and partnerships. We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”. Hunt believes its owed. This week's podcast.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

As a newcomer to this world, I have learned just how complex, dynamic and complicated a supply chain can be. Many times I have seen file names such as 2015Q4Budgetv3.xlsx Many times I have seen file names such as 2015Q4Budgetv3.xlsx They helped launch the personal computer, or PC, as a viable business tool. That won’t end well.

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E2open

JULY 15, 2015

For that type of real-time information sharing to happen, the right technologies and processes need to be in place. More than half (51 percent) felt their inventory turns were “on par” or “worse” compared to the average performance observed in their industry for this key supply chain metric. Wednesday 15 July 2015.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 22, 2018

What Do You Mean, Time Fences? When It Comes to Metrics for S&OP, “One Size Fits All.”. With this time frame in mind, S&OP needs a long-term view. S&OP Is the New Name for ERP. To Make S&OP Work, We’ll Need New Software. For Our Company, S&OP Is Operations (O) and Inventory without Involving Sales (S)!

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Executive commitment to sustainable procurement is at an all-time high, but several roadblocks continue to impact organizational ROI. This year, executive support was only cited as a challenge for 13 percent of organizations, down from 50 percent in 2013. Emphasize that sustainable procurement is not just a compliance program.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Squeezing in this much time to write this deep report between working on the Supply Chain Insights Global Summi t and finishing customer deliverables is tough. It is just too easy. I have done this report twice before–once in 2012 and again in 2013. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. The reason?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Deploying more than two strategies to a product category will drive an unfocused approach” (Spend Matters 2013). Our organization’s products, customers, and profit, are ultimately a byproduct of the global supply chain networks that operate on a daily basis to add value through collaboration. Putting Trust in Supplier Competencies .

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Sometimes, they’re subtle: Team members are burning out, outflow and profit margin ratios are off, or you gradually start missing certain success metrics. Other times, they’re obvious: You haven’t achieved consistent profitability, or you’re hiring despite losing money every quarter. By 2013, it had lost two-thirds of its value.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 24, 2018

However, their ability to collect from customers and manage inventory actually both deteriorated, masked by a significant increase in the time companies take to pay suppliers, according to the latest Working Capital Survey results from The Hackett Group. days and Days Inventory On hand (DIO) rose by just 0.6% to 51 days. days vs 45.4)

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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. Meet Ernest.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 21, 2019

Over 1 trillion dollars’ worth of counterfeit goods was traded in 2013, and that number will double by 2022. Charlotte explained how younger generations who are just entering the workforce would result in companies having to adapt to the working conditions by adopting a flexible mentality. So here it is!

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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. Meet Ernest.

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