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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

Based on my research, I write about four strategies that drove value over the last decade. Which strategy drove the most significant value??” ” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization.

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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. Few companies actively manage complexity and automate segmentation strategies. The focus needs to be on cost reduction.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Vice President of Global Operations Strategy, Seagate Technology. We were an early adopter of the E2Open technology and we experimented on building B2B networks early in 2004.

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7 Ways to Create Perfect Agile Supply Chain Machine

Supply Chain Opz

Triple-A Supply Chain In 2004, Professor Hau Lee of Stanford University published the article titled " The Triple-A Supply Chain " in Harvard Business Review. Meanwhile, Ericsson who didn''t have a contingency plan suffered from months of raw material shortage. Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. Inputs, transformation processes, and outputs involve the acquisition and consumption of resources – money, labour, materials, equipment, buildings, land, administration and management. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. .”

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. Macy’s feels good about their portal strategy, but it is ineffective for supplier coordination. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint. My first take?

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ESG in the Public and Private Market: Putting the Supply Chain in Focus

SupplyShift

In the wake of COVID disruptions and the financial advantage earned by companies focusing on ESG despite major market uncertainty, investors are rapidly recognizing the strategic importance of these metrics as well. This was the largest difference in performance recorded since 2004. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.