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

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of study, I think because it is a lack of understanding. 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.)

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

This data will be combined with the financial ratio data and published in an Open Content Research report in April on the Supply Chain Insights Community. Here is a link to the healthcare research study in the field. Current State: Costs are rising. Here are links to the studies: Corporate Social Responsibility.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Although logistics represents a whole system of space/time interdependencies, we believe that the discussion of its history and its chronological evolution still requires extensive studies to explore its origin and its advance in time, from a new point of view. NAPM published a new magazine, Purchasing Magazine, in 1965.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . Some studies (Cachon and Fischer (2000); Lee et al. One of the most common bottlenecks in supply chain management and burdensome processes (purchasing, procurement, preparation, etc.)

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

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. I studied Industrial Engineering and Operations Research focusing on Optimization Theory. Their words.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. In Figure 1, I contrast the drivers and trends from a recent study. Invention into Innovation in Planning.