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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service. This, my friends, is why we need to get back to CORE supply chain metrics when measuring the Top 25.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has been on a supply chain transformation journey since 2005. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) A Transformation Journey.

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Evolution of B2B Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS. The Supply Chain Operating Network technology market evolved from the trading exchange market in 2000-2005. The Elemica announcement contained the obligatory positive quotes and promises to customers.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

It ceased to exist in 2005 when it merged with 1Sync. On the trip to and from South Africa (16 hours door-to-door), I started writing the new book that I will be publishing in 2014. In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. Transora had a short history. I have never been in Africa.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.