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

Supply Chain Shaman

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. It is worse in some industries. The average is twenty-five days.

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Grocery Shopping and Inflation, Part One: Impact on Grocers

Enterra Insights

Back in 2004, food writer Jon Springer ( @_JonSpringer ) reported, “Supermarkets have traditionally done well during periods of food inflation.”[8] 6] Angus Loten, “ Retailers Lean on Software to Combat Rising Costs ,” The Wall Street Journal, 28 July 2021. [7] Department of Agriculture, November 2021. [3]

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7 Best Customer Service Books CEOs Read

Supply Chain Opz

Those people you are dealing with every day is actually your "internal customer" (as in lean manufacturing or six sigma initiatives.) You start the whole customer acquisition process and cross your fingers. - In virtually every company, you have to deal with other departments. Reference - Lam, S. Shankar, V., Erramilli, M. & Murthy, B.

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Supply Chain Maturity Model for Capability Assessment

Supply Chain Opz

Anyway, the most widely cited maturity model is the work named " The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation " from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004. 4) Lean Maturity Model. Every supply chain needs a certain degree of lean capabilities.

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Triple-A Supply Chain: 10 Strategies to Supercharge Performance

Supply Chain Opz

Multi-dimensional view of strategy took place in 1999 in the paper " Leagility: Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain " by Naylor et al. The idea is to try to excel at 2 strategies (lean/agile) at once. Lee 2004 had a different opinion. Triple-A Supply Chain.

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7 Ways to Create Perfect Agile Supply Chain Machine

Supply Chain Opz

published the article entitled " Leagility: Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain " to describe how agility and lean concept are related. In short, you can be more responsive if you trim wastes from your current operations and become "Lean". Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

In 2004, Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. We''ve identified 7 rules that we can learn from them as below, 7 Rules of Fashion SCM 1) Produce in small lot : small lot is the unique characteristics of lean manufacturing which is not the case here. Lewis, and Jose A.D. The logic behind this is that small lot creates the sense of exclusivity.