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Is Your Supply Chain Recession Proof? A Guide for Building a Resilient Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

During the 2008 recession, Walmart strengthened its supply chain by investing in predictive analytics and real-time demand forecasting. Improve Efficiency and Make Smart Cost Savings Cost-cutting is common during recessions, but indiscriminate cuts can damage long-term performance.

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Understanding the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains 2025

Supply Chain Digest

The former AMR Research brilliantly came up with the top 25 idea in 2004. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs?

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Are You Active in the Digital Transformation Drinking Game?

Supply Chain Shaman

At SAP Insider, the digital transformation message was never defined, but the use cases focused on Internet of Things delivered through a Leonardo architecture and the strategic advantage of S4/Hana for real-time analytics. SAP S/4 HANA is all about real-time analytics. SAP R/3 released in 1992 and SAP Netweaver in 2004.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

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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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

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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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! Days and years went by, and eventually, the ’93 Ford Escort was living in the hybrid-dominated world of the year 2004. But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Subscribe Here! Email Address.