Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. In some case they manage inventory at the customer’s site. “We The company has been on a supply chain transformation journey since 2005. The company has over 300,000 products. across 17 different segments and customer personas.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. Looking back at history, we made more progress in supply chain management in the period of 1995-2005; than we are today. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier. I want to hear from them.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. Both companies were initiating a growth strategy.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. Both companies were initiating a growth strategy.

S&OP 100

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

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.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. It is seldom a step change. How Have They Done?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 150

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Table 1: Contract of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns and Cash-To-Cash for Consumer-Facing Industries. In parallel, take a closer look at inventory turns where only pharmaceutical companies made slight progress. In parallel, take a closer look at inventory turns where only pharmaceutical companies made slight progress.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

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. DS replaced rules-based forecast consumption with better math (statistics and pattern recognition).

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. Orbit Chart of Syngenta and Monsanto of Progress on Operating Margin and Inventory Turns. The potential of the Syngenta and Monsanto businesses is very different.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, say I recommend an application that gives them full visibility into the supply chain, so that when they place an order, they know how much is in the inventory, how it’s coming and by what date, so they can start using it in manufacturing. And, no surprises here, I attach metrics so I can measure the baseline.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, Cisco executives created a business continuity-planning dashboard to mitigate risks. Build inventory hedge to cover for volatility and risk (from Just in time to Just in Case) : Understand demand and supply side shocks, volatility and develop Inventory hedging strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

More and more companies are struggling to make progress in operating margin and inventory cycles. To understand the pervasive nature of this change, consider Amazon’s 2012 announcement: “We now have more than 15 million items in Amazon Prime, this is up 15x since we launched in 2005. As shown in table 1., Current State.

Supply Chain Design Software 256

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We often lack the basic cross-business visibility we need to address the core challenges of reducing inventory, trimming costs and improving service level. The self-driving supply chain is a growth driver for businesses, it drastically reduces time to market for new innovations while managing inventory, cost, speed and quality of service.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When inevitable disruptions occur, AI engines can quickly make proactive decisions that reset the supply chain in real-time — for example, finding new inventory, a new carrier or an optimized route — without hours of manual analysis.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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NC State SCRC

MAY 11, 2020

1] It also means minimizing damage and the time taken to return to a normal state of operations (Sheffi and Rice, 2005). [2] Resilience is the easy way out – it involves carrying a lot of inventory and redundancies in the supply chain that are wasteful. 1] Sheffi, Y (2005). Building a Resilient Supply Chain. 3] [link]. [4]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you follow the previous IMO holdings the first reduction came in 2005 by set a limit of 4.5% million metric tons annually. That represents a huge cost to the supply chain where each party tries to run lean, just-in-time inventory. Actually, this is not at all recent. m/m of Sulphur cap. The decision to make it 0.5%

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When inevitable disruptions occur, AI engines can quickly make proactive decisions that reset the supply chain in real-time — for example, finding new inventory, a new carrier or an optimized route — without hours of manual analysis.

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