Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.
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Kinaxis
MAY 21, 2015
by CJ Wehlage On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. As quickly as Apple rose up the ranks to #2 in 2007, there could be changes that force the rankings to adjust. I would have preferred adding and changing the metrics to rank the companies rather that a category to remove two.
Kinaxis
JUNE 1, 2016
The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service. This, my friends, is why we need to get back to CORE supply chain metrics when measuring the Top 25.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 8, 2016
In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. However, there are no sure bets.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 7, 2022
This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. We started charting public performance on Orbit charts studying the relationships between metrics and having conversations with manufacturing and retail teams about their results.
NC State SCRC
OCTOBER 3, 2016
The production and use of biobased products replacing petroleum-based products has the potential to reduce GHG emissions up to 10 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents. In 2014, America’s biobased industry contributed a total of 4.22 million jobs in 2014, with each job in the industry responsible for generating 1.76
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