Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

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.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I find senior executives love to throw around superlatives like customer-centric, agile, efficient and responsive but lack the understanding of how the words translate to supply chain strategy in the real world. Managing a supply chain requires big feet—grounding in real-world experience—coupled with big wings—conceptualization of strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. The answer is to increase modeling, evaluate sourcing strategies, and build the right push/pull decoupling points. Here I share three strategies to consider to eradicate some of the barriers. Demand latency is the translation of market consumption to an order signal.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns. It proves to be more resilient.

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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. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. As the company spiraled in the updraft of the market, it built inventory. billion in inventory charges in April 2001.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. Pricing decisions can be integrated with demand and supply planning. In a crisis economic factors are critical.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

I first met Shane in 2007 at the beginning of his work with Syngenta’s value chain. At that time, his team was actively building a demand-driven strategy. Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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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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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

Ensure continued alignment by sharing inventory turns as a KPI. Figure 1 shows it for inventory and service. The idea is that more service, typically comes with a higher inventory (or lower turns). They increase the service but require a higher inventory. It will lower cost but increase inventory or decrease turns, cfr.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. If E2open is successful in this acquisition strategy, your role in the extended supply chain will diminish unless you create a many-to-many data model and invest in demand management.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. Segment customers and suppliers against the business strategy and digitize–electronic definition of the relationships and record exchange–based on the segmentation activity. I am not quite sure.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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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. For the Love of the Cloud. This is a major turnaround. Visualization.

S&OP 150

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Taulia

JULY 11, 2023

During supplier selection, companies should apply appropriate procedures and use suitable metrics to select suppliers that align with the company’s ESG policies and broader values. Rethink inventory management strategy Sustainability and optimal inventory levels go hand in hand.

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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.

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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. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. The performance factors evaluated in the analysis are: Growth. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

Van Gundy believes the corporate landscape is different from what it was in the early 2000s and during the Great Recession of 2007-2008. Where in the past they might have focused primarily on days payable outstanding (DPO) as a financial metric, they’re now giving equal attention to days sales outstanding (DSO) and inventory levels.

Inventory Reduction 40

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. You must be able to manage inventory turnover seamlessly and prevent stockouts. New Enterprise Associates is an American-based VC firm. Scalable order fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

The future inventory fire sale. 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.)

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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.) Using better math to build an inventory plan for raw materials is a good idea. At the beginning of the pandemic, the forecasted period of disruption of seven-to-eight months. As a result, DDMRP is a fad. Procurement/Buyers Workbench.

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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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