Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 31, 2022
Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies.
Precoro
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
This month, we continue our Procurement Basics series and would like to introduce our readers to yet another set of often misused business terminology. As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Procurement. What Is Procurement Process?
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Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 11, 2018
While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. The transformational wave is slowly transforming the automotive industry from a focus on selling “rides” versus the purchase of an automobile.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 11, 2012
I have been an industry analyst since 2001. As a result, I invested in building qualitative survey capabilities and built a database of twenty years of supply chain ratio data (for more on this capability reference the research report, The Effective Frontier and check out our community ). Ownership of Inventory as a Metric.
HICX Solutions
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Meanwhile, according to a recent Deloitte study , 45% of Gen Z consumers stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. ESG Strategy. Next, a process was introduced whereby all procurement teams could load their data into the product on a monthly basis and report on their activities.
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
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