2003 Inventory Metrics 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 24, 2025
In 2000-2003, I worked on teams as a Gartner analyst developing Magic Quadrants. The research methodology for the Supply Chains to Admire compares the performance of a company against its industry peer group for the metrics of Year-over-Year Revenue Growth, Inventory Turns, Operating Margin, and Return on Capital Employed (ROCE).
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 17, 2025
He began his analyst career in 2003 at a company called Meta Group, then the second largest research firm in the industry. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.
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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
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Pharmaceutical companies are struggling with falling margins and rising inventories. In our work with pharmaceutical companies, most executives wince when we mention inventories. However, most do not realize that the Days of Inventory for the industry has grown 33%. It is rising inventory levels. What Can We Do?
Kinaxis
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. However, in a subsequent article published in 2003 and titled “ Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence ” Erik states that.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 6, 2015
In 2003, short-term forecasting approach using pattern recognition was invented by Terra Technology to replace rules-based consumption. Inventory piles up and revenues gaps are closed by pushing product into the market. It was not an ideal design. As most people realize, the market is too dynamic to accomplish this through fixed rules.
Enterra Insights
APRIL 22, 2019
Reporting on this development, Jennifer Smith ( @jensmithWSJ ) and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) write, “Looking to cut inventory while meeting e-commerce demands, the retailer wants more of the goods it orders delivered on time and in full. Walmart recently made headlines when it toughened delivery demands for its suppliers.
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