Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. Allyson’s presentation was just that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. Time horizon. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

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. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes. Market-Driven Processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. 19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. I am not quite sure. It evolved over time. Bio-engineering?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Vendor Managed Inventory processes–once hailed as the panacea of demand sensing–largely operate in isolation within sales organizations (of the thirty-three organizations that we interviewed last year, no market leader has connected these demand signals). I remember December 2007 like yesterday. They are not. Reflection.

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