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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

According to a Wall Street Journal article : In a 15-count indictment filed in San Francisco, federal prosecutors say that beginning in 2004 the company repeatedly ignored warnings from the government it was breaking the law by shipping drugs ordered from online pharmacies that dispensed them to anyone who filled out an online questionnaire.

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

… Traditionally, inventory counts [have been] a complex exercise done manually about once a year but RFID technology enables retailers to monitor stock monthly bringing accuracy from 60% to over 90%.” in 2004 to $0.38 in 2014 to just 4 cents in 2019.”[6]. The average price of sensors has fallen from US$1.30

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. War on Terror.

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Campbell Soup Company upgrades Demand Sensing

Supply Chain Movement

. “Sensing product demand is particularly important in today’s increasingly complex marketplace,” said Patrick Folan, Vice President of Supply Chain for Campbell Soup Company in a press release of January 21, 2014.

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Financial Benchmarking for Inventory Turns and Working Capital

Arkieva

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns. It proves to be more resilient.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.