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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. Supply Chain Organizations By The Numbers.

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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. Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. improvements.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade, supply chain performance regressed. Currently, supply chain performance is a barrier to economic recovery. I began analyzing correlations of groups of metrics to market capitalization and found that the most significant correlation was between market capitalization and growth.

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Why Financial Reengineering Does Not Equal Supply Chain Improvement

Supply Chain Shaman

Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics.

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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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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. As complexity shifts happen, the supply chain has to be redesigned to absorb the changes.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. Unilever Year-over-Year Performance.