Supply Chain Insights

MAY 5, 2014

Nine out of ten companies are stuck. It is our goal for this methodology to become the measuring stick for supply chain leaders in every industry, independent of company size, to judge supply chain performance. The Supply Chain Index measures a company’s corporate performance on three dimensions for the period of 2006-2012.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Opened in 2006, this plant is responsible for building the Buick Enclave and the Chevrolet Traverse. million Americans in the auto parts manufacturing business, but the damage will hit smaller auto suppliers that are further down the supply chain the hardest. Small Businesses Feel the Effects of the UAW Strike There are 4.8

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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. Let’s take a look at the world of the chemical manufacturer. In Figure 1, we share the profiles of the companies in the industry. Many companies are struggling with shareholder activism.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This is an example of what one of our valued customers is saying about our solution: “We first implemented Blue Yonder’s transportation management platform in 2006. With this new tool, manufacturers, retailers and logistics service providers (LSP) can benefit from Blue Yonder optimization tools via integration to their existing TMS.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. Retailers can no longer have their heads in the sand, but neither can consumer products manufacturers. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH. Disintermediation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Supply Chain Excellence as defined by a methodology whereall companies are put into a spreadsheet and compared across industries is meaningless. During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. We also believe that it needs to be based upon their peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2014

Nine out of ten companies are stuck. Due to the shortage of supply chain talent, many have come from different companies. It is unique for that company. In 2006, I met a man by the name of Dick Clark that traveled the world working on role definition of planners for Procter & Gamble. There is no doubt about it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I define collaboration as the ability to establish long-term win/win value propositions between and among companies. Yet, only 20% of companies actively manage supplier development programs to get cash to suppliers in need. In times of growth, when companies are funding inventory builds, cash is needed. Let me explain.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2020

Manufacturing in Thailand. In addition, manufactured products in Thailand include textiles, beverages, tobacco products, cement, jewelry, appliances, computers automotive parts and agricultural equipment. . Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. About twice the size of the U.S. Tourism and services account for 55.6%

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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

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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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. These are mainly North American-based manufacturers, distributors and retailers.) Our goal was to understand the characteristics of companies outperforming on growth, cost, and value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. Process gaps are larger in companies greater than 5B$ in annual revenues. The market is over-hyped and often companies are not clear in their selection criteria. Most companies forget context and data enrichment.

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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. The methodology unfairly favors companies that do not have assets. The reason is that as a chemical company, they must run assets, and the methodology penalizes companies with deep asset strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“We live in a world where supply chains, not companies, compete for market dominance. But companies often have diverging incentives and interests from their supply chain partners, so when they independently strive to optimize their individual objectives, the expected result can be compromised. ”. What can we learn?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 24, 2020

After learning he had terminal pancreatic cancer in 2006, he delivered an upbeat 2007 talk titled “ The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams ,” which became a popular YouTube video. As Brinkley notes, preserving tribal knowledge could be critical to a company’s future. Dorothy Leonard, the William J.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The “Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire” is the culmination of a two-year effort to evaluate supply chain performance and improvement for the years of 2006-2013 by industry by vertical for publicly-held companies. Thursday September 18 th at 9:55 AM.

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DynaSys

APRIL 11, 2019

Electrium is one of the UK’s leading electrical groups and since January 2006, has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Holdings plc. The company offers a wide range of low voltage products from a simple light switch to industrial installation.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

In the pursuit of finding a way to off-load inventory (read “working capital”) from their books, many large manufacturers are moving towards so called “Vendor Managed Inventory” systems. The logic couldn’t be easier to follow: ”why not have our suppliers own the inventory up to the point of use?

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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. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

Last week, one of the last survivors from the software inventory optimization software market ceased to exist as a stand-alone software company. Like its predecessors, LogicTools and Optiant, the company stopped functioning as a stand-alone software provider due to acquisition. SmartOps was purchased by SAP.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2022

Founded in 2006, Anaplan has amassed over 1,600 worldwide customers and is categorized in the financial planning tech sector. Of late, the company has made some inroads in functionality addressing integrated business planning connected with supply chain planning. That investment remains ongoing. High Valuation.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Some authors are from leading supply chain operations management consulting companies. Obsolete and out-of-print books are not included. Editor's decision is used to finalize the list of the best books. - The links below are #paid links. How about its counterpart in Europe? References - Moed, H. Citation analysis in research evaluation (Vol.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 7, 2013

Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding has said that “terrible logistics are slowing the growth of internet retailing in China.” In general, the 3PL industry still significantly lags the growth of manufacturing. Chinese manufacturing technology and quality is improving rapidly.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. Ever hear of Lean Manufacturing? That’s Toyota.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Over the years, various methodologies have emerged to address this need, including lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the integration of both known as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). In this blog, we’ll delve into the integrated Lean Six Sigma approach, exploring its benefits, deployment models, moreover the implications for SMEs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). Manufacturing. Manufacturing programs are implemented as standalone programs.

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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 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.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 28, 2023

After taking over the reins as CEO of Ford in 2006, he famously transformed a culture with deep-rooted divisional fiefdoms that hindered communication, reporting, efficiency and agility into a new era of quality, efficiency and innovation. The prop rods all looked different. Mulally understood the power of seeing and of showing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Check out the full analysis, for over 600 public companies by peer group in Supply Chains to Admire report.) 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. Meet Ernest.

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 1, 2020

World exports of manufactured goods increased from US$ 8 trillion in 2006 to US$ 11 trillion in 2016. Developing countries make up the bulk of suppliers and manufacturers today. They have a comparative economic advantage: lower wage costs, specialized design and manufacturing skills, and a finely-tuned supply chain.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 27, 2018

David Blanchflower , professor of economics at Dartmouth College and member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee from June 2006 to May 2009: The fallout from the disastrous Brexit vote and the even more calamitous negotiations are scaring businesses to death, and continuing apace. since the Brexit vote. between £20bn and £40bn.

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