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Have You Given Your Planner Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

In Figure 1, note the lowest satisfaction is Generation X (birth years of 1965-1980) in manufacturing organizations. It took six months for supply chain executives to sense the market downturn of 2007 and make adjustments to their supply chain. In my share groups, large manufacturing clients have a Q1 freeze on travel.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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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

With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. With greater pressure on shorter cycles and less asset availability, getting good at inventory processes increased.

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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. Order Policy. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. Foreseeing the pricing factor on the demand side is vital for organisations to address pricing policies. fashion, automotive, spare parts, airlines). Agility and visibility.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

The automotive industry manages complex inventories in addition to facing vast outside pressures. Inventory management shouldn’t be a nightmare. Inventory management shouldn’t be a nightmare. Automating inventory processes can help reduce overhead costs and increase customer satisfaction for good. Read the Full Story ».