Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I define collaboration as the ability to establish long-term win/win value propositions between and among companies. 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. Let me explain. My takeaway?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

But how do companies best translate strategy to action? Most companies, along with consultants, feel that they know the definition of supply chain excellence. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the end of a two-year research project, and identifies which publicly held companies outperformed their peer group on balance sheet results. Which companies were considered in the study? Companies were selected based on three criteria. This left us with a list of nearly 200 companies.

Pharmaceutical 274

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Arkieva

MARCH 24, 2016

2006-2009 I did a PhD on Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization. Though benefits are clear, multi-echelon inventory adoption has been very slow. Pilots within and across company boundaries have been convincing, but we have not seen a widespread multi-echelon inventory adoption. Multi-echelon is counter-intuitive.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

Historically, businesses have used one of two extremes for inventory management: push-based or pull-based. Push-based inventory management uses demand forecast to manage inventory and replenish from the supply base. The pull-based method relies on the ability to replenish the “pulled” demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

I wanted to help companies drive step-changes in performance. My argument centered on the observation that as new technologies evolved, companies did a lift and shift. Companies want a definitive Return on Investment (ROI), limiting the opportunity to test and learn with new technologies. The approach was not as profitable.

Gartner 197

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2018

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. However, the inability to act on information gathered in advertising and merchandising efforts in Wal-Mart led some companies, including Procter and Gamble, to rescind use of RFID tags.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

and L’Oréal’s approach to business that has allowed the company to continuously rank as a Supply Chains to Admire winner for four consecutive years. Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. It is the world’s largest cosmetics company with annual sales estimated at over €26B.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It is for this reason, that we analyze the patterns of the Metrics That Matter using orbit charts over the period of 2006-2014. In this analysis, we evaluate relative performance and improvement of a company on the supply chain metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and ROIC within its peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2017

Companies are questioning how to move forward. Last week, I spent time with large chemical companies engrossed in this discussion. In Figure 1, we share the profiles of the companies in the industry. Usually, a company just starting the journey will make progress faster than a company that has been on the journey for many years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. First Phase: 2002-2006. His reasoning?

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the end of a two-year research project, and identifies which publicly held companies outperformed their peer group on balance sheet results. Which companies were considered in the study? Companies were selected based on three criteria. This left us with a list of nearly 200 companies. How did you define peer groups?

Pharmaceutical 179

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

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. During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics. In financial reengineering, some companies wrongly focus on cash-to-cash performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data. The analysis was industry-specific.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. It is needed. We think so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the discrete industries we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee, and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. With the headwinds of a recession gathering, companies are battening down the hatches. Inventory Turns.

Industrial 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the discrete industries, we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. With the headwinds of a recession gathering, companies are bolting down the hatches. Inventory Turns.

Industrial 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The Company’s goal is to defeat diabetes and drive better patient outcomes. The company also provides for other serious chronic conditions including hemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. The company is headquartered in Denmark and employs 42,000 people in 77 countries while marketing products in more than 165 countries.

Pharmaceutical 150

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Opened in 2006, this plant is responsible for building the Buick Enclave and the Chevrolet Traverse. These companies, that produce products like seatbelts and upholstery, may not have the cash flow needed to sustain operations while the strike continues. GM’s Lancing Delta Township, conversely, is GM’s newest US plant.

Automotive 75

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2014

Nine out of ten companies are stuck. In short, they have been able to drive improvements in one or two metrics; but, they are struggling to improve a portfolio of metrics that includes customer service, cost, inventory turns, and growth. Due to the shortage of supply chain talent, many have come from different companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. The shift from 2004-to 2006 is impressive. Kimberly-Clark. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 24, 2020

One landmark in the lean revolution for retailers was Walmart ’s decision in 2006 to thin out inventory by $6.5 Companies that adopted the lean-inventory approach largely omitted tenets of the system that called for having extensive backup plans in case of an event that interrupted plant operations or caused a sudden demand surge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This report, Supply Chains to Admire , compares the progress of 200 companies within their respective peer groups on both performance and improvement. We find that this is true of too few companies. The script will be distributed to CFOs of apparel, consumer packaged goods, and food/beverage companies next week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

The first, and my major issue with the Gartner Top 25 methodology, is that it attempts to compare all companies in a spreadsheet. I just don’t think the comparison of very different industries in a spreadsheet based on growth, inventory values, and Return on Assets (ROA) is meaningful. It Should Not Be a Beauty Pageant.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” I just do not think that you can put companies in a spreadsheet and shake them up. A chemical company just should not be compared to a high-tech company using this methodology. I shake my head.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. Around 1980, Anders left IBM and started his own company where he introduced the Forward Buying Module, which gave much-needed financial support to his wholesaler customer base. Bank crisis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

I had never had a vendor thank me for giving a company a negative review. (I The company is now owned by JDA. During the period of 1996-2001, the company struggled. ” I used to say that companies in the household products sector–Colgate, P&G, and Unilever–built the best supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

It was called multi-enterprise inventory optimization. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Companies that have the most to lose, will drive the fastest rate of change on the Index. 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.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2016

GDP has changed since 2006. Changes in transportation and storage of inventory costs made up significant portion of the 2016 SOL. Inventories are a major issue analyzed by the 2016 SOL as well. While inventories had steadily grown since 2005 at 5-percent annually, growth of inventories in 2015 flattened out.

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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. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH. The difference? What can we learn?

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Our tagline dates back to 2006, when AB&R was about three years into working with RFID. It gives a broader scope of what we do as a company than our previous tagline, “scanning the future of business.”. We pride ourselves in going the extra mile to create a custom system that works for your company. Let’s change that!

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In this report, we track the progress on balance sheet performance of companies by peer group and chart the relative improvement for the period of 2006-2013. As a result, companies are churning planners—they are moving from one company to another. Too few companies actually use their plans to make better decisions.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

A common theme of the 2016 predictions was growth and scalability, so let’s look at how companies are using these technologies as we prepare for the innovations of 2017. Meanwhile, cloud technology enables companies to expand infrastructure without significant investment or use of resources, reports AXIT of Supply Chain 24/7.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Some authors are from leading supply chain operations management consulting companies. Books We Recommend - Purchasing Book - Six Sigma Books - Operations Management Book - Inventory Control Book - Lean Books - International Business Book Last review and update: January 30, 2020 Obsolete and out-of-print books are not included.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Read more: Try the eCommerce inventory management software that unleashes your growth What is B2B eCommerce? Shopify was founded in Canada in 2006, and since then has become Canada’s largest publicly traded company by market capitalisation – which gives you an idea of how eCommerce has flourished in recent years.

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