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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Sales and Operations Alignment: Often The Missing Link

Supply Chain Shaman

I first met Shane in 2007 at the beginning of his work with Syngenta’s value chain. Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. Shane’s Story.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered?

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Evolution of the Warehouse: How it Adapted to E-Commerce and New Technology Trends?

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In addition, the average warehouse’s size since 2007 has increased 143 percent to 184,693 square feet and its height has increased almost four feet higher to 32.3 A white paper by the Arizona State University W.P. In the previous 19 years, it rose 1 percent annually. That’s not a typo. feet, Supply Chain Dive reported.

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

Supply Chain Shaman

The future inventory fire sale. One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.)