2006 Metrics Procurement Solutions 
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
The German team overcame disappointments in 2006 and 2010 to win the World Cup this year, while favorites Spain (the defending champion) and Brazil (the host country) were humbled by the competition. BASF’s goals included: Automating the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process from purchase requisition to invoice.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 4, 2018
For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006. Meet Ernest.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 4, 2018
For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006. Meet Ernest.
Talking Logistics
APRIL 10, 2019
The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 19, 2025
49% That was the ownership share of product returns specialist Inmar Post-Purchase Solutions (IPPS), a joint venture between Doddle—a part of Blue Yonder—and Inmar, Inc. metric tons of CO2 equivalent per million USD in revenue, down 58% from FY09 levels, despite daily package volumes rising by an average of 121%.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
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. SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software.
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