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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. In the research, top performers for the report meet the following criteria: Analysis by Industry. A Look at History.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Shaman

It is the end of a two-year research project, and identifies which publicly held companies outperformed their peer group on balance sheet results. Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? There are a lot of misconceptions about inventory.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Lately, as I reflected on my conversations with John (fictitious name) when I was at AMR Research, I yearn to go back in time. AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. Companies entered the pandemic with twenty more days of inventory than at the beginning of the great recession. Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.)

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. My focus is on research. 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. best results?

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Dictionary.com. In my research, I find that the companies with the most progressive procurement processes also have the most advanced customer supply chain process evolution.)Without Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

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. According to Atlas RFID, Active RFID tags require a power source, and therefore can initiate communication with a reader (beacon). RFID Tags Are Resurging in the Supply Chain.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Insights

It is the end of a two-year research project, and identifies which publicly held companies outperformed their peer group on balance sheet results. Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? Today we published a new report, Supply Chains to Admire.