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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Customer-Centric Supply Chain.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six years, their business has grown three-fold and become very global. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. Local/Global Governance. At that time, they planned on spreadsheets.

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38 global businesses ranked on forced labour in their supply chains: transparency roundup

Provenance

Source: BSR ). Source: Know the Chain ). Why we find this interesting: “Getting full view of a global supply chain can be difficult, but is crucial for businesses when it comes to the conditions of people who work in them. Source: The Conversation ). Join our newsletter. – Ian Kynnersley, CTO, Provenance.

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2016: The Start of the Third Act?

Supply Chain Shaman

While my first posts were read by less than one hundred people, my current posts are read by over 15,000 people globally. I remain in amazement at the possibilities to create content and share it globally with a push of a button from your kitchen table. The source of the content is research. This is my 310th post.

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Driving Organizational Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader. Based on our research at Supply Chain Insights , today, 34% of supply chain organizations have source, make and deliver reporting through a common organization. What do you think?

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Talk Doesn’t Cook the Rice

Supply Chain Shaman

It will be launched during a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a series of reports that will run in our May newsletter and throughout the summer. However, we have found that only a few companies are improving the potential of their supply chain to balance supply chain metrics. How was it developed? Supply Chain Strategy Sessions.

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