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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Prior to Yannis, Keith Harrison was the Global Product Supply Officer for slightly more than ten years. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Dictionary.com. Most supply chain planning teams do not know their customers. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value.

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3 Tips for Placing the Customer at the Center of Your Hospitality Supply Chain

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These days many hotel companies are beginning to understand the role information technology plays in the coordination between different parts of the supply chain and the impact on supply chain performance.”. An example a company with efficient logistics management is the Hilton hotel chain.

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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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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Orbit Chart for Rockwell Automation at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

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Handfield and Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo’s Dr. Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira showed that an open analytics culture (OAC) strongly correlates with improved supply chain performance metrics. write-offs and R&D), and, thus, do not offer the granularity and freshness of supply chain performance metrics.