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.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

In reporting of the latest investment, The Wall Street Journal observed that the total investment represents Amazon’s largest investment in another company since its founding 30 years ago. Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. When I asked about the use, the response was: “ We don’t use it. Rebuilding.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. Resiliency.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. However, Walmart would later drop the mandate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. As a part of the organizational redesign attempt to widen the planner’s circle of influence (more experience and reporting at a higher organizational level) to align the power of what is possible from the job that they control with the influence that they can have in the organization.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Justin Honaman , Head of the worldwide Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Food & Beverage organization for Amazon Web Services, reports that the term “digital twin” may be newly coined, but the concept has been around for years. 12, December 2007. ”[2] What is a Digital Twin?

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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. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. Instead, it should be mapped as an input to track supply chain forecasting to financial budgets for reporting and insights. Time horizon. Bias and error.

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Taulia

JULY 11, 2023

A 2023 report by Glow and NIQ shows that half of surveyed consumers changed the food and grocery brands they purchase based on ESG considerations, for example. Track and report on ESG supply chain metrics Before companies can improve their ESG performance, they first need to be able to measure their current performance to provide a benchmark.

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AB&R

APRIL 12, 2022

The initiative was officially put on hold in 2007 as a result [2]. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. However, Walmart would later drop the mandate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Today, I published a new report on supply chain excellence. To prepare the report, I worked with Abby Mayer ( @indexgirl ) to analyze ten years of supply chain financial ratios. If the definition is the balancing of costs and inventory, the winner is Colgate. Bookend: be positioned at the end or on either side of (something).

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2020

Alan Rappeport ( @arappeport ) and Jeanna Smialek ( @jeannasmialek ) report, “The International Monetary Fund issued a stark warning about the coronavirus’s economic toll, saying that the world is facing its worst downturn since the Great Depression as shuttered factories, quarantines and national lockdowns cause economic output to collapse.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Fortunately, Libby’s, which has an estimated 80% of the canned pumpkin market, had enough canned inventory to make it through Thanksgiving. It was about the norm according to research shared in the World Economic Forum Report. Maintaining two inventory streams, including a Wal-Mart dedicated one, was costly for suppliers.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Despite falling short of last year’s holiday shipping traffic expectations, CEO Carol Tomé predicts a strong peak season in 2023, saying in a late July Earnings Conference Call , “ Inventory levels are good. UPS is not alone in announcing lofty peak-season hiring ambitions; according to recent reporting from SupplyChainDive , “ the U.S.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

Basically, the reporter explained about the conditions of military deployment. Here at resupply points, inventory was stored for up to 8 days. Larson et al 2007 indicated that, based on a literature review, there are 4 types of interaction as below, Reproduced from Larson et al 2007. (1) to another " is a bit tricky.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Today I am deep into writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter. Each year we look at supply chain financial ratios and write a report on the Supply Chains to Admire. Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. It is our fourth year.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2019

Phillips ( @EricaEPhillips ) reports some retailers were so desperate to find warehouse space this past holiday season they created pop-up warehouses in vacant suburban lots and parking garages.[1] These growing expectations have put pressure on retailers to locate inventory closer to large consumer populations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Each year, I publish a report analyzing the technologies in the S&OP space. Finishing this report was my focus this week. It took me six months to do the research and sixty hours to write the report. Needless to say, completing the report was a lot of work. It is a well-read report. It is just too easy.

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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 Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

According to reporting from business broadcasting network CNBC , “ the labor union won the right to strike over (Ford) plant closures during the term of the deal as well as an immediate conversion of temporary, or supplemental, workers — those with at least 90 days of employment — upon ratification.” Midwest sector.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 Benefits from its supply chain efficiency result in time savings, more cost-effective inventory management and improved product forecasting, the article said. Decades in the Making.

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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. I guess supply chain leaders who want to move up the Top 25 now have to persuade their HR & Legal departments to publish a CSR report. Three pieces of edgy insights from this: a. My Bold Predictions were not far off.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 30, 2015

In fact, its operating cost per square foot of warehouse space has remained almost flat at $100 during the last 7 years in which the warehouse area in North America increased from roughly 9 million square feet in December 2007 to 60 million in December 2014. In contrast, without inventory pooling the total safety stock is. Cycle Stock.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

Target charges suppliers more to help offload unsold inventory (Reuters). Last week, I highlighted how Walmart is piloting the use of drones in its warehouses for inventory tracking. And based on news reports this week, Google and DHL have their sights on robots in the warehouse too. DHL employs robot as picker’s best companion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Corporate report data is not readily available before 2006. If you trace the year-over-year pattern, you can see that P&G made progress on inventory turns and operating margin 2006-2007, 2009-2010.

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Taulia

MARCH 15, 2023

The outlying UK In our survey of senior stakeholders, 87% of decision-makers at leading British firms reported anxieties around the impact of price disruption on their activities, and 48% said they expected these problems to worsen over the next year. Meanwhile, in December, the USA reported inflation at 6.5% in December 2021.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 18, 2018

Statista , a statistics website, also reports that e-commerce’s share of retail sales has risen from 5.8 Ecommerce Fuels a Warehouse Boom,” reports this article by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. feet, Supply Chain Dive reported. You probably know that e-commerce sales have been soaring over the past few years.

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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. Over the past several years we have focused on either configuring RapidResponse to help us manage supply, demand, S&OP, product cost reduction and most recently inventory.

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Arkieva

MAY 10, 2016

Inventory turns are available. Many technology companies give data on their R&D expense in their financial reports. To check whether that leads to a premium, we can analyze the ‘Gross Profit’ from the financial reports. From Figure 2 we see that has been the case in the pre-crisis period 2004 – 2007.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Recent news indicates the vitamin and supplement industry may come under stricter government oversight related to labeling and inventory management in the near future. The New Haven Register reported the U.S. Improper production, packaging, shipping and storage led to numerous reported health issues and customer complaints.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Recent news indicates the vitamin and supplement industry may come under stricter government oversight related to labeling and inventory management in the near future. The New Haven Register reported the U.S. Improper production, packaging, shipping and storage led to numerous reported health issues and customer complaints.

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The inability to provide daily updated data on inventories of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products presents two major concerns: The decrease of the WCR for companies, the deployment of a dashboard tailored and user-friendly is essential in order to take charge of the management of a share of its WCR. et Fischer M.,

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2007, the Dutch producer of pushchairs relocated its factory from Taiwan to the free trade zone close to Xiamen in China. That leads to extra inventory and extra costs and hence necessitates a substantial level of turnover in order to be financially feasible. Free trade zone.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. Using manual spreadsheets or even a supply chain planning system that generates reports based only on what took place in the past is a rearview mirror approach.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I encourage you to read the article by Ted Mann for more details, but here are my three quick takeaways based on the information reported: Inadequate training is the Achilles’ heel of any operations ramp up. Some engine kits arrived at Pratt’s engine centers in Middletown, Conn., and West Palm Beach, Fla., without all the required parts.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. Global trade has eased as warehouse inventories of retailers and manufacturers remain elevated,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said.

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