Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The result of this study was that, when companies embarked on the information system initiatives, organization boundaries become blurring, inter-firm relationship got stronger and this change helped to create the new marketing and distribution channel structure. The concept is more profound and requires the right mindset.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Over the Memorial Day weekend, I stumbled on an old article that I wrote in 2001. It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). The high-flying company had no clarity of purpose or clear governance, but the funds kept coming. E2open was founded in 2000 by eight high-tech companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

“If only I had the money that the company was supposed to save from the multiple ERP and supply chain projects. I have been an industry analyst since 2001. When I started Supply Chain Insights I wanted to put “research” at the core of the company. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. I am a skeptic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. Instead, I would like to see companies invest in new forms of analytics to better use existing data. Yet companies are still investing millions of dollars in these upgrades. You got it!

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. In this area of research, I find that companies are like dogs chasing cars. The grass is always greener at another company. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard. The reason?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2017

Building carrier partners and establishing an extensive qualified carrier list will ensure your company has the assets it needs during capacity constraints. With more than 100,000 North American truckload carriers, you can secure truckload capacity by first identifying credible carriers that share the same values as your company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2016

Companies wait and process orders. The channels are multi-tier and companies are more dependent on outsourcing. Looking back at history… When I was a Gartner analyst in 2001, I tracked over 400 trading exchanges. Companies are ready to embrace the velocity of data and the need for agility. It is a struggle.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. According to data from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Sensing of markets and the translation of channel demand into an accurate demand signal for the company is the foundational principle of market-driven processes. In most companies sales teams use VMI processes to develop orders. I do believe in demand planning, but most companies overstate forecast improvements. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. At this size, there were few possible suitors for the company. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. How are companies embracing data lakes, streams, and clouds to use a growing variety and increasing velocity of data?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

At the forefront are brands like Outdoor Voices, Warby Parker, Allbirds, Glossier, Hims, and home-goods companies like Casper, Brooklinen, Purple, and Leesa.” By every big-picture metric, social media and ecommerce should be a match made in heaven. ’ … The bubble didn’t end e-commerce. But, there’s a disconnect. .

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Gravity and Spire are collaborating to offer an enhanced level of information gathering for companies, governments, and organizations with the ability to plug in real-time data about upstream supply-chain realities. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In reality, a few abrupt moves and getting laid off in 2001 by Dell drove a sharp left-hand turn in my career in 2002 that evolved to where I am today. Everybody in the company needs to know the vision. These are the step towards accountable behavior when solving a problem Have balanced, relevant and valid metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Slowly, more and more companies are waking up to the cold, and hard facts. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis. I have personally experienced the failure.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 1, 2015

Now imagine you’re a $4B a year revenue company with 13,000 employees and over 15 corporate acquisitions since 2001. It not only impacted key operational metrics (like reducing gross inventory levels, improving inventory turns and reducing cash-to-carry cycles) but also had a huge impact on corporate culture.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system. They also lack process controls and metrics. I believe the shift in strategy is correct, if executed well.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system. They also lack process controls and metrics.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Jon: In 1990 I was leading a Booz Allen team launching a start-up division of world’s largest snack food company. Why do you think this is?

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

You can also use these metrics to benchmark against similar taprooms in your neighbourhood. There are a few online profit calculators out there such as these examples by Eagle Distributing , Floodlight and Del Papa Distributing Company. It also comes in the form of a bill for the whole company and not just for each department.

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