Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It is morning in Orlando. The sun is rising. This inbound news adds to the story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. Companies need to rethink the misguided thinking on one-number forecasting. #2 Only a mature company realizes that demand is a river with the need to manage the flows at strategic, tactical and operational time horizons.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

In those blogs we have shown there is a lack of alignment when setting targets for the Cash, Cost and Service in companies. Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. As recaptured in Figure 1, the inventory turns are a measure on the ‘cash’ side of the triangle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. Companies spend millions of dollars to implement supply chain planning technologies to drive insights for better decisions; however, there is a failure to design a work environment to enable success. Ironic since the company spent millions of dollars on the technology.)

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EazyStock

MARCH 14, 2023

The right purchasing and logistics strategies give companies an edge during these unique, uncertain times and, during the return “to normal,” a greater competitive advantage and continued growth. Rapid cost increases, interest rate hikes and reduced demand require more effective inventory management and forecasting attention.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

I had never had a vendor thank me for giving a company a negative review. (I The company is now owned by JDA. During the period of 1996-2001, the company struggled. ” I used to say that companies in the household products sector–Colgate, P&G, and Unilever–built the best supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When Gartner bought AMR Research, I left to build a company, and in the process, I slowly built a Linkedin audience of over 330,000 followers. Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. No company achieved improved economies of scale through M&A.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Companies can develop resilience in two main ways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards. It is a very competitive set of companies. As an industry analyst, over the course of the last ten years, I have worked with all of these companies. They are right.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

The company’s focus is on biotechnology and genomic research. The company formed in 2000 by the merger of Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals. I first met Shane in 2007 at the beginning of his work with Syngenta’s value chain. He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. Shane’s Story.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

They are not the same, and the delivery of a demand-driven strategy does not mean the company will enable a customer-centric supply chain, or build/implement outside-in processes. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. For most companies it is weeks and months, but can be multiple quarters.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” Today, I know of less than twenty-five companies that actively sense demand, and while we talk about the use of channel data and the building of demand sensing processes to use channel data, it is still an elite group of supply chain leaders that are perfecting the techniques. I remember December 2007 like yesterday.

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

We have also discussed that in many companies we see a lack of alignment between the three corners. Without alignment companies stay stuck in the middle. Ensure continued alignment by sharing inventory turns as a KPI. Figure 1 shows it for inventory and service. They increase the service but require a higher inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. I have followed both of these companies for 15 years and writing this post is bittersweet. The founders remain, and the company is private, and tightly-held.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

Our parent company, Dassault Systèmes, places great emphasis on the health and wellbeing of its 14,000+ employees. When I formed our team, I had the foresight to include one of the founders of our company – Victor Allis, an avid runner and marathon participant with a keen competitive drive. As it turns out, plenty.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Unfortunately, all too often, companies rely on spreadsheets, push them to their limits, and use them in ways in which they never were intended. From our eBook, S&OP in the 21st century , “An audit of 50 corporate spreadsheets in 2007 revealed that 94% had errors… one for $100 million!”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

When I wrote a summary report at AMR Research in 2007 and 2009, there were two or 6% of the market. In addition, 85% of the vendors in the multi-tier inventory optimization market that I wrote about in 1995, are now part of larger platforms. Myth#1: Companies don’t need a technology to drive an effective S&OP process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

In this post my goal is to help companies build outside-in processes through a clearer definition. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. The gaps in supply chain visibility as shown in Figure 1, are problematic for most companies. Reflection.

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Global Trade Management

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Following are some key statements: Companies that beat the competition on supply chain performance also. inventory turns, while the Laggards achieve only 3.8. metrics that really impact the bottom line; the Leaders in our survey. But, surprisingly, only 45% of respondents say their companies view the. ► 2007. (4).

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Taulia

JULY 11, 2023

Blog Expert Advice 8 min read 11 Jul 2023 By Taulia Share: Share via linkedin Share via twitter Share via facebook Share via email Copied Copy page URL to clipboard 5 supply chain initiatives to combat ESG risks Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks are a threat to both the operational health and reputation of diverse companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Slowly, more and more companies are waking up to the cold, and hard facts. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis. Inventory Turns. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

As we have driven improvements in globalization, jobs shifted as companies chased lower costs of labor. As I travel the world, many companies struggle to understand what I do. This is our third year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies outperform. Inventory Turns. A Personal Reflection.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

American companies have been loath to bring that money back to the U.S. For companies contemplating such a move, the question remains: What will they do with the cash when it comes home? But companies used most of the money to repurchase shares, reward investors with higher dividends, and swallow up other companies.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

VCs are typically more inclined to provide large funding options, and these investors bring their own expertise to your company. VCs like to invest in internet companies. Ecommerce VCs are becoming increasingly wary of investing in companies that burn through cash so fast and can’t build a profitable and sustainable business model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

The future inventory fire sale. Companies pushing IT standardization agendas will suffer the most. I am attempting to understand the choices companies make and the impact on supply chain performance. The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) Toilet Paper. Commodity scarcity.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Seasoned supply chain professionals used the mental model from the recession of 2007 as a guidepost.) Companies would be better served to measure plan adherence, plan quality, and process latency and train their planners while saving the time and energy of thinking about lights-out planning. The problem is the lack of trained planners.)

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NC State SCRC

MAY 11, 2020

Supply chain resilience generally means the ability to manage risk and be best positioned to respond and even gain advantage from disruptions (Sheffi, 2007). [1] Resilience is the easy way out – it involves carrying a lot of inventory and redundancies in the supply chain that are wasteful.

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