Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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. Aligned Metrics. We find that this is true of too few companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

As a result, when the spreadsheet is sorted, a chemical company is stack-ranked against a retail player, and a high-tech company against a food distributor. Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Why Do I Think This? .

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. Supply Chain Index Rankings for 2006-2013.

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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. And, do you think that it takes a renegade?

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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. We are not as mature as CPG or Food/Beverage. In Figure 1 we track the year-over-year progress of these two pharmaceutical leaders. The patterns are circular.

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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. Also note that beauty, consumer packaged goods and food growth is also declining.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) The company invested in multiple beauty brands and sold off food products.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Jim is a “ FOOD, BEVERAGE, CONSUMER PRODUCT GOODS (CPG) Management Professional (Retail and B-to-B Foodservice). Also, building in S&OP process metrics, not just business operating metrics is critical to success. Jim: This is a classic process, system, people, metrics opportunity/challenge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

” Entertainment and fast food globalized fast. 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. Operating Margin. Inventory Turns.

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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. In food and beverage companies, I think that we are at a supply chain crisis. Consumers do not trust big brand supply chains to deliver healthy food. At the time, Alan was frail.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. We would love to see you there!).

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