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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. 21 versus P&G’s.19

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Figure 1: Expected Changes in IT Spending in 2016.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Too much quilting, typing and repetitive motion….) I smiled and sat back enjoying the moment. Bio-engineering?

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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AGCO: Driving a Digital Manufacturing Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. Performance and Improvement for the Period of 2010-2016 for Trucks and Heavy Equipment. AGCO envisioned employing a 3×3 training metrics: every operation would have 3 people able to execute it, and every person would be able to do 3 operations. Time to Value.

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Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords

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To learn more, please read my previous blog ‘ A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable ’. We might use “availability in Excel directly or with Add-ons” as an “age metric’.). 2016, “Defining Analytics: A conceptual Framework” ORMS Today pp. The coffee purchase was rejected.

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Guest Blog Part 2: Start Your eKanban Implementation with Value-stream Mapping and Engaging Your Suppliers

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Through this guest blog series, my intent is to share some of my experiences implementing supplier quality and Lean manufacturing initiatives by focusing on eKanban systems. Before I move on, I want to take a moment to tie the value-stream mapping exercise to the key take-aways from the first blog in the series: Communication and buy-in.