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Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 31, 2022
Source E2open Shipping Index). As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Source E2open Shipping Index). As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation.
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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. ERP is valuable to improve transactional accuracy, but I can find no evidence that investments in ERP have reduced inventory or improved cash-to-cash cycles. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 8, 2017
If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”
Enterra Insights
MARCH 27, 2019
By every big-picture metric, social media and ecommerce should be a match made in heaven. In terms of sources that influence purchase decisions, social media lands last and was rated less than half as effective as reviews. ’ … The bubble didn’t end e-commerce. It was just a bump in the road. . But, there’s a disconnect.
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83
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