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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. Commercial and operating teams in manufacturing organizations greater than 5B$ in annual revenue were more aligned in 2007, at the beginning of the recession, than in 2020, the start of the pandemic. Alignment Barriers.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. ” Her answer was telling.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. Analytics inform decisions.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Even when I proved that the process was degrading the forecast by 35-60%, companies still clung to a wrong number. Don’t believe me? Measure it.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. Prescriptive analytics, where data constantly move in and out of partners’ systems, helps take data insights to the next level with improved visibility and for decision making.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. The use of advanced analytics enables the sensing of out-of-stocks. The sharing forecasts in supplier relationships is of little value.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Mobile penetration is forecasted to be 85% of the households in Afria by 2015. It started with simple money transfers in 2007 and now includes a range of services. He forecasted that today, robotics could save 10% of logistics labor costs. He spoke of M-Pesa and the evolution of new models for mobile commerce in Kenya.

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