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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. While companies want to improve supply chain performance and drive value, it is easier said than done. Building Supply Chain Talent and Leadership.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

An avid student of supply chain performance, I have asked the question of What makes a “supply chain leader” for the last six years. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. Not much has changed.

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Talent Trap

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite multimillion dollar technology projects, and tomes of strategy documents, they are stuck in their ability to overcome market factors and rising complexity to drive continuous improvement on a portfolio of metrics. But, if he were here, I would love to continue my dialogue with him. What does that mean?

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. For the past four years, as we have done our work, we have tracked Novo Nordisk’s continued improvement against the pharmaceutical peer group. The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Performance of High Tech and Electronics Supply Chains for the Periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. First Phase: 2002-2006.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

. These interviews of supply chain leaders will be collated into our fourth book on supply chain excellencewhich will publish at ourconference in September 2015. Background on the Supply Chain Index. Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. 19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. Who is performing the best in this industry?