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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. In 2019, here are seven trends that I will be tracking: The Horizon? Between 2019 and 2020, a trading score will evolve that will rate trading partners on electronic capabilities. The impact may surprise us.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

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But I’m sure many of you in the wholesale and distribution business are thinking: “ What does 2019 hold for the wholesale and distribution industry? The rise of China in the past decade coincided with a global economic boom after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. ” Well, we sat down with our best customers.

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The Transportation Industry Report: Winter 2018-2019

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Costello explained his outlook for 2019 in a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel earlier this year. 2018 is shaping up to be the highest level of production since 2007, and 2019 should be the highest on record.” Cass has also updated their truckload pricing expectations to a lower range of 2 to 4% in 2019.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Why do we have 32 days more inventory by company in 2020 than in 2007? Figures 6 & 7: Organizational Alignment in 2013 and at the Start of the Pandemic in 2019. I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5. Let’s start with inventory.

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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. In 2019, these five countries supplied 48% of the $2.5 China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany are the top 5 exporters to the USA. trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. ”).