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Balancing Cost and Performance: Smart Investments in Industrial Equipment!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Evaluating total cost of ownership beyond the price tag Focusing solely on the upfront cost of industrial equipment can mask the true financial commitment required over its lifetime. While initial pricing often draws the most attention, long-term value is determined by factors extending well beyond the purchase phase.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

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 parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It will delay my report. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. While many companies purchase supply chain planning technologies, few use them actively.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. I wrote many reports on airport floors in those days–electrical plugs were just too scarce.) Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large. Last night, I spoke at a conference on the use of advanced analytic techniques and the future of planning. This was the case for DuPont in 2008.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

This data will be combined with the financial ratio data and published in an Open Content Research report in April on the Supply Chain Insights Community. Current State: Costs are rising. Figure 2 contrasts the state of cash-to-cash cycles between 2000-2003 and 2008-2011. Power is shifting to the hospital.