2002 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Inventory 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 26, 2025
In 2002, I had the opportunity to work with General Mills. ” “Outside-in planning is a business value-driven approach vs a functional excellence approach. Wrap-up At the end of the class, the students ask, “How do I buy and align technology with what I have learned in the class?”
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Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2014
As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 3, 2015
When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions.
Logility
APRIL 26, 2022
based supplier of fashion blanks transforms its demand and inventory management with Logility. One of the leading wholesale producers and sellers of premium quality blank apparel in the United States, Next Level Apparel has implemented the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform to modernize its demand and inventory planning processes.
The Logistics of Logistics
MARCH 13, 2021
Ron Crabtree , CPIM, CIRM, CSCP, MLSSBB, SCOR-P is the founder and CEO (2002) of MetaOps , Inc. MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. Based in Mattawan, MI, the company was founded in 2002. About Ron Crabtree. About MetaOps and MetaExperts. High Responsiveness.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 28, 2015
Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.
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