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Transversing the Paradox River

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies have data lakes, but do not use their own data. I don’t understand why companies want to move data in and out of data jails that we call relational databases but are so unaware of the techniques to use data from data lakes through schema on read technology approaches. technologies.

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Mining Supply Chain Data for Insights

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. Organizations are drowning in data that they cannot use.

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Why I No Longer Believe in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

While the name has changed, the methodology has remained fairly constant, with a only a few changes, since 2004. The formula is a weighted average of three years of financial data for year-over-year growth and return on assets. The data is also shared with industry peers and the peer group vote represents 25% of the score.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

I have worked with this client since 2004. Clear understanding that the focus needs to be on the probability of the forecast, and that the focus needs to be outside-in based on channel data. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Supply Chain Planning Data. Supply Chain Design. Little clarity.

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What Kindergarten Lesson Applies Best to Supply Chain Technology?

Talking Logistics

Powerful Analytics and Peer-based Benchmarking – The ability to aggregate data and uncover insights is drastically simplified in the multi-tenant deployment model. By having simplified access to end user behavior including click paths, search criteria, common actions, etc.,

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. It is time to move to a many-to-many data model. It is one thing to write it, but it is a horse of another color to defend it.