Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

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. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. I believe that value is what you create. We would love to hear from you.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

The market shift is towards analytics, but this new market is confusing. The first definition of Demand-driven Supply Chains was pushed into the market by AMR Research (now part of the Gartner Group) in 2004. They are step change requiring either the redeployment of existing technologies or the purchase of new platforms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

I manage a team at Supply Chain Insights and actively publish using an Open Content research model. This Tuesday we will publish our 87th report, and our 167th podcast, in our 36th newsletter. As shown in Figure 3, while the adoption of SAAS was 5% in 2004 it is currently the deployment preference for the Line of Business Leader.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Descartes survived, however, and became one of the first software companies to embrace the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017. Where is Descartes today? Keegan McCready, Sr.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Sadly, I find each to have a limited view of supply chain analytics. However, visibility of channel relationships–customer orders and consumption/purchase–in the demand network, or the use and consumption of materials in the extended supplier network, is an ongoing issue. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting. One of the key elements of the EDLC policy is the direct procurement of items from suppliers, eliminating intermediaries in the process.

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