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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Note that the industry aggregate actually went backwards, as did operating margin and inventory for the period 2015-2017. On average fo rthe period of 2006-2016, L’Oreal had a 17% operating margin as compared to Estee Lauder’s operating margin of 13%. This is transforming the ways L’Oréal addresses the business.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. We are driving functional excellence and incrementally. (To However, buyer beware.

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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Diversified Industry Performance For the Period of 2010-2017. The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006. Note the general trend of improvement. Meet Ernest.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics.

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S&OP: Middle-aged or Never Grown Up?

Enterra Insights

The Internet was still in its infancy (it had about 100K hosts connecting roughly a million people), the Macintosh Portable was released (weighing 16 pounds and costing $6500), and Microsoft Excel (a mainstay of S&OP) was just four years old. Dependency on Excel. That doesn’t mean buying the first shiny thing you see.

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Rockwell Automation: Supply Chains to Admire Winner

Supply Chain Shaman

Diversified Industry Performance For the Period of 2010-2017. The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006. Note the general trend of improvement. Meet Ernest.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. In this 2-part Supply chain strategy post , the Managing Director at Solventure – Bram Desmet, discusses the key elements of an excellent supply chain. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent? 2006-2009 I did a Ph.D.