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Measuring Up?

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The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. ” The journey for value requires a clear definition and analysis of what is possible. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. The analysis takes us about six months to complete.

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

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Source: Dictionary.com. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. The company is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

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Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) He also believed that supply chain leaders could easily select top-performing supply chains and designed the AMR Top 25 Supply Chain (now the Gartner Top 25 analysis) to be 25% of the score. I advocated a study, an analysis of market value. AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston.

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

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The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. We complete the analysis each year. In this analysis, patterns matter.

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

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Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory.

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Let the Qs Begin

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While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. How do you balance the trade-offs between source, make and deliver?

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

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In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver.