article thumbnail

SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Dictionary.com. When I hear companies discussing the implementation of a customer segmentation strategy, I ask a series of questions: Who is your customer? What are you trying to accomplish through the execution of a customer segmentation strategy? Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. How do they buy from you?

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. But how do companies best translate strategy to action? Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. What choices drive the.

article thumbnail

Blue Yonder is a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader 13 Years in a Row

BlueYonder

Along their journey they provide feedback, which with industry and technological advancements, backs our ongoing innovation strategy. This is an example of what one of our valued customers is saying about our solution: “We first implemented Blue Yonder’s transportation management platform in 2006.

Gartner 86
article thumbnail

Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

Our strategy was to lead with shippers, then onboard their vast networks of carrier, broker and 3PL partners. Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). Numbers matter when it comes to supply chain data networks. trillion terabytes of new data every day.). Data integrity.

article thumbnail

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. Second Phase: 2006-2014.

article thumbnail

Is Covid-19 the Death of Global Supply Chains?

Supply Chain Game Changer

The Parallel Supply Chain … A Twilight Zone Strategy? Globalization has dominated as a widely practiced business strategy during the past 15–20 years. Many supply chain, sourcing & procurement teams have been asked to row upstream without a paddle during this time of crisis. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.