Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

Map the data and the processes outside-in. Forms of Channel Data. To become more adaptive how can you mine customer/shopper and channel data to reduce latency? Today, supply chains do not use sentiment data–blogs, rating and reviews, social data on Twitter and Facebook, and call center logs in supply chain processes.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

It hasn’t been too long ago that a typical consumer products manufacturer rep would replicate last year’s plan, make any adjustments for an account’s expanded stores, new markets, or new product launches, and dub it the new current year forecast. These guys were great at what they did. about 45% of the trade promotions fail).

Vendor Strategies 110

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Before computers and data analysis became the norm, physical paper accounting ledgers were used. They contained large pages with rows and columns to hold data. The ledger consisted of two facing pages, or a spread, but were treated as one page to give more columns for data.

Supply Chain Design Software 100

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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. Data visualization is quickly advancing in the tools. The transfer of data is more periodic with weekly and monthly updates of the optimization data tables, and all technology vendors have built standard APIs for data transfer.

S&OP 150

S&OP Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design Software 150

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Avaya has been a Kinaxis customer since 2007 and has generated tremendous value from the use of RapidResponse. During each phase of deployment and enhancement we have created new data fields and tables in the data model, and new workbooks and other UI artifacts, such as dashboards and scorecards, which utilize them.

Supply Chain Design Software 100

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Corporate report data is not readily available before 2006. A Supply Chain Leader will make progress on both of these key metrics with a very tight and controlled pattern. Instead, let sales sell.

Supply Chain Design Software 191

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I forecast this disruption period as the new normal is not over. At the beginning of the pandemic, the forecasted period of disruption of seven-to-eight months. Seasoned supply chain professionals used the mental model from the recession of 2007 as a guidepost.) Yes, the supply chain is awash with real-time data.

Supply Chain Planning Software 410

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

It has been forecasted that by 2040, approximately 95% of all purchases will be facilitated by ecommerce. It was the world’s largest VC firm in 2007 with over $20 million in assets during the year. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. New Enterprise Associates is an American-based VC firm.

Trends 105

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

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.) The data is available.

Supply Chain Planning Software 369

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