Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Commercial and operating teams in manufacturing organizations greater than 5B$ in annual revenue were more aligned in 2007, at the beginning of the recession, than in 2020, the start of the pandemic. Alignment Barriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. But the opposite is not true – if you optimize one link, you have not optimized the entire supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The data in Table 1 is from a recent research study. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. The takeaway?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In the research for the inventory optimization and the S&OP reports, I find a handful of VERY experienced SAP clients doing codevelopment with the SAP IBP product. It is morning in Orlando.

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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. We would love to have you participate in our new research study. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes. Market-Driven Processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

With rising commodity prices, increasing complexity of the product portfolio, and escalating costs for transportation, the companies in the peer group are fighting to reduce costs and protect market share. And, behind the curtain, cranking the numbers is a researcher to help me. Who Did It Best? As I write this, I hang my head.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

In early 2020 Oxford Economics conducted research to explore how supply chain leaders can minimise risks and maximise opportunities. 2007) in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 246, Advances in Production Management Systems, eds. Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). Surviving and Thriving. Olhager, J.,

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