Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

The answer lays ahead… In this blog, I share insights on current results. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The shift from 2004-to 2006 is impressive. A Look Back.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Year-over-year Improvement at the Intersections of the Metrics. It is for this reason, that we are hard at work on the analysis of the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series of reports.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. The Shaman blog is now read by 15,000 readers globally. Item complexity is taking a toll.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

When full-year public data becomes available in April, we take each industry and analyze results over the period of 2006-2015. We believe that supply chain excellence is driving improvement while averaging a higher level of performance in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. It is one of the reasons that I left Gartner in 2010.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In this blog, we share an interview with Dave Biegger, SVP of Campbell Soup. During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. Supply Chain Index Rankings for 2006-2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. As I end this blog post, let me leave you with three thoughts. The difference? The So What?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. I see this as a problem. The conversation continued. Views of a Renegade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

In studies from the periods of 2006-2008, there was slow adoption of 15-20%, and today, the supply chain leader prefers a cloud-based solution. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. In 2002, there was no interest. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I do not know him, but he reads my blog. The wonderful thing about the work I do at Supply Chain Insights is that I can now connect to people I do not know through my blog, and they are able to reach out to me directly to have a discussion. At first, I was not going to pick it up; but I thought, “I need a diversion.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015. In this blog post, to understand the drivers of performance, we interviewed Esra Kostak Kutuk of Novo Nordisk. The patterns are circular.

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Arkieva

MARCH 31, 2016

In my previous blog “ Balancing Cash, Cost and Service: The Supply Chain Triangle ” I have introduced that in essence supply chain management is about balancing the service, against the cost and the cash required, cfr. That balance is captured by the ROCE as a financial metric. January/February 2006.). John Dischinger, David J.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The German team overcame disappointments in 2006 and 2010 to win the World Cup this year, while favorites Spain (the defending champion) and Brazil (the host country) were humbled by the competition. That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. We studied this pre and post-recession.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2020

All the while, McDonald’s retained its global approach, brand, image, operations & supply chain ( Guardian 2006 ). Managers we surveyed across six countries in 2017 estimated these international production and trade metrics at 37% and 41%, respectively. Will COVID19 create more Local Supply Chains? You’re in good company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, for Linkedin , and for Forbes. This is a story of a supply chain turnaround.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

For more on this topic, reference my prior blog posts on Learn the Language of Demand and Driving Innovation ). We will also be announcing the 2015 winners for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis which analyzes company progress on both supply chain performance and improvement on the Metrics That Matter for the period of 2006-2014.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

MARCH 25, 2015

The “Moneyball” saga and other examples of premier organizations competing on analytics were featured in the January 2006 Harvard Business Review article, “Competing on Analytics” (reprint R0601H) by Thomas Davenport, who also authored the book by the same name. Root cause analysis. Role-based views with collaboration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Higher percentage of growth than the industry average for the period of 2006-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, for Linkedin , and for Forbes.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

He served on the board of Trammell Crow Company (TCC: NYSE), which was purchased by CB Richard Ellis (CBG: NYSE) in 2006. How do I start using my existing operations data metrics like cycle time, uptime to help create operational benefits for my teams? Curtis was appointed by President George W. billion to $9 billion.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

List of Top 10 Supply Chain Analytics Books 1) Supply Chain Metrics that Matter (Wiley Corporate F&A) 1st Edition This book offers an in-depth guide to understanding the link between corporate financials and supply chain maturity, evaluating the progress of over a hundred companies from 2006-2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The teams feel good because cash-to-cash metrics improve; but in many cases, in the joyous celebrations, companies do not realize that they have reduced capabilities with suppliers and not made improvements in inventory. We are launching monthly blogging on special topics in the community for the featured bloggers. Why should you join?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In this blog post, we share the story of VTech. I followed his journey during the period of 2006-2011, and wanted to check in with him to gain his insights on the selection of VTech as a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire research. We had silo’s and different functional areas had competing metrics that prevented progress.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. To accomplish this goal, I would use sentiment analysis (The reading of unstructured customer data–social data, rating and review information, blogs and warranty data.)

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

Founded in 2006, this firm is slightly newer in comparison to others. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. It was founded in 1977 and has made over 1,000 investments since then — some of the most notable ones in the ecommerce space being Casper, Goop, ThirdLove, FabFitFun, Jet, Burrow, and more.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

The following is a guest blog from Craig Lukasik , one of my former MBA students from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. I was really pleased when he contacted me about this blog, and am delighted to feature it here. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? In 2006, Amazon ( AMZN ) started a revolution.

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