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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

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. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) The reason?

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002, I had the opportunity to work with General Mills. This week, the organization reported that net sales decreased 2 percent to $19.5 It does not fit into traditional supply chain models. ” “Outside-in planning is a business value-driven approach vs a functional excellence approach. The result?

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

This includes the automation of path-to-purchase for consumer products, active shaping of demand through price, channel incentives and promotions, eCouponing and mobile commerce for retail, and product proliferation for all. In the modeling, my recommendation is to look at the cost metrics in aggregate.

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American Software Reports First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 Results

Logility

NASDAQ: AMSWA) today reported preliminary financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. This annual award honors IT companies that support and enable logistics excellence. million and purchased Starboard Solutions Corp., ATLANTA (August 24, 2022) American Software, Inc. million compared to $0.5

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” ” I have been studying the evolution of inventory technologies as an industry analyst since 2002. It is too complex to be described in a four-box model.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Sadly, I find each to have a limited view of supply chain analytics. However, visibility of channel relationships–customer orders and consumption/purchase–in the demand network, or the use and consumption of materials in the extended supplier network, is an ongoing issue. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

He is the author of the blog Supply Chain Trend and the self excellence guide Building Mental Toughness. This operating model included order to cash, make to demand, purchase to pay, finance and planning processes. A European S&OP model was also part of this implementation.

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