Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 9, 2024
How Do You Define Excellence? As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Humility exudes from my fingers as I type this post.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 19, 2020
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. After finishing the Supply Chains to Admire report and the Youtube series (to be released this week), this is my feeling. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? Reflections on Excellence. Tom Peters.
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Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Most companies buy decision support technology, but do not redefine work to improve decisions. A shift from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard. The focus on functional metrics sub-optimizes balance sheet results.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 9, 2021
The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Informational Technology groups reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. Over the last decade, the CIO’s office reporting structure shifted to report to the CFO. Mistake #2. Mistake #3. Mistake #4.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2023
Warren Buffet, Investor This week, I finished a report. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like. It will publish next week.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2018
The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 25, 2021
The Focus Inside-out Supported by Functional Metrics. Functional excellence drove regional supply chain performance in the 1990s, but a focus on functional metrics in large, global and complex supply chains over the last two decades threw the supply chain out of balance. Use the report to better define outcomes.
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