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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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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. Simplistic thinking of trading-off customer service, inventory and cost became much, more complicated with the shifts in asset strategies. With greater pressure on shorter cycles and less asset availability, getting good at inventory processes increased. The second issue?

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Kimberly-Clark Makes Sense of Demand

E2open

Empty shelves send impatient buyers to competitors’ products, while too much inventory can result in unwanted carrying costs. For years, Kimberly-Clark relied on historical data to guide forecasts, but that changed in 2007 when the company began a complete end-to-end overhaul of its supply chain and invested. Read Case Study.

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Origin of Logistics & Supply Chain Revealed! - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

Case Studies. Here at resupply points, inventory was stored for up to 8 days. Larson et al 2007 indicated that, based on a literature review, there are 4 types of interaction as below, Reproduced from Larson et al 2007. (1) Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide. A Case Study.

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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 focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. I only know of five case studies of cross-functional listening.

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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? What Worked.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

90% of companies are unable to drive improvement at the intersection of inventory management, operating margin and customer service.). The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. 3% of the last decade.