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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.)

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first report was published when I working at AMR Research (now Gartner) in 2004. A supply chain team improved forecast accuracy by 22%, but did not improve inventory or customer service. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. The Research. . Fire Fighters. The reason?

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. Teams continuously balance cost, customer service, asset utilization and inventory. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. What am I hearing? Fifteen years later, I expected more.

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Reduce Costs: Invest In Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

We analyzed the impact of 150 factors on 493 financial metrics for the period of 2004-2016. Across the industry, we find that companies think that they are managing costs and inventory better through technology investments like supply chain planning, but they have a false sense of accomplishment. This research was tough work.