This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Twenty twenty-five is starkly different: the next global war has already begun, and it’s unfolding not on distant battlefields, but right through the supplychains that you rely on. Your supplychain is already directly in the line of fire. Worse, we lack a coherent strategy to counter this "long war" already underway.
The deal was reworked to raise the price floor in both 2002 and 2008, before a new agreement that separated pricing categories for different types of tomatoes was signed in 2013. agreed to pause its investigation that same year after Mexico agreed to sell tomatoes at a set minimum price. border entries for bulk tomatoes.
The average manufacturing company’s supplychain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supplychain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supplychain teams focus on delivering value. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. The reason?
The global supplychain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global SupplyChain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. Over the past three years, supplychain cycles shifted.
I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, SupplyChainMetrics That Matter. The world of supplychain is active on my iPhone. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supplychain applications.
The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.
Two years at Gartner Group , six years at AMR Research (now Gartner), two years at Altimeter Group and three years as the founder of SupplyChain Insights. Over this period, I have watched the acceptance of cloud-based supplychain solutions evolve. Users of Software as a Service solutions have higher satisfaction rates.
Supplychain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supplychain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supplychain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supplychain laggard.
by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supplychain practices that cost companies money. Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supplychain visibility. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supplychain in Excel.
As supplychain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supplychain.” The discussion of customer-segmented supplychains happens often. How do they buy from you?”
“The biggest mistake companies make as they’re growing is leaving supplychain management and human resources behind.”. Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, shared that insight during his keynote address at last week’s Council of SupplyChain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference.
Supplychain leaders are competitive and they want to measure their success. In many businesses, assets are a core part of the supplychain. The more work that I do on trying to understand corporate balance sheet information and the connection to supplychain excellence, the more I realize how unqualified I was to vote.
Seldom do I see a commercial leader transition to supplychain, and I wanted to gain his insights. In 2007, Shane Emms was asked to take a Global SupplyChain leadership assignment at Syngenta. While Shane did not start out with a supplychain background, he was a fast learner and a great leader. Shane said.
They will soon change your supplychain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supplychain systems and IT architectures. Doug named the software after his son’s favorite pet elephant shown here.)
Disrupted Logistics in SupplyChain Over the last four to five years, we have experienced disrupted logistics—broadly defined here as the interruption or complete breakdown of the supplychain functions at one or multiple levels. Most of the companies never really resumed the pre-recession rate of expenditure growth.
Will the supplychain ever catch a break? With every link of the supplychain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supplychain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged SupplyChain.
Warehouse automation stats show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centers. There are many driving forces behind the automation trend, from rising labor costs to rapid growth in ecommerce sales and a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment , such as two-day and even same-day delivery.
However, while technology evolves to allow better tracking of carbon footprint, there’s a potential to substantially improve overall with sustainable logistics by addressing a less often discussed but insidious problem. That’s potentially frustrating. It’s seemingly an intractable problem that represents, according to some data, nearly.1%
by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supplychain insights from leading industry experts. Supplychain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supplychain conference. Here are some key takeaways from the Gartner supplychain event: 1.
Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. Despite the deployment of what is considered to be the most mature technologies by the organization, the most important processes–allocation and Available to Promise (ATP)–are largely manual. Measure it.
by John Westerveld When things happen in supplychain, knowing sooner and acting faster can mean the difference between a major catastrophe and a minor hiccup in your supplychain performance. Imagine this scenario; you are a supplychain executive for a major U.S.-based It’s a Sunday morning in May 2008.
Even as the industry is becoming more data driven than ever before and cutting-edge software is increasingly used to manage freight from start to finish, the development of your sales team is still important. According to SupplyChain Quarterly , Quarter 4, 2011 issue: “Supplychain scorecards typically focus on operational metrics.
With new supplychain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supplychain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. Brown @TheMichaelBrown Michael D.
In a previous blog “ Balancing Cash Cost and Service: The SupplyChain Triangle ” we have introduced the idea that supplychain management is all about balancing three corners of a triangle: cash, cost and service. In her excellent book ‘SupplyChainMetrics that Matter’ (Cecere, L.M.,
Supplier performance management provides detailed information about the risks your suppliers may have, so you can take action to reduce or eliminate risks in your supplychain. Therefore, the success of supplier performance management directly affects the quality of the entire supplychain. How is it possible?
A common challenge for procurement and supplychain professionals is obtaining support from C-level leaders to invest in a robust supplychain risk management (SCRM) program. But to make their strongest case, SCRM advocates need to focus on one key metric: return on investment.
This and much more, in your Monday supplychain briefing from Arkieva. SupplyChain News. SupplyChain Strategy. SupplyChain Strategy. Is Integrated SupplyChain Planning Rubbish? Source: SupplyChain Shaman. As seen in the chart below from the Commerce Dept.,
Successful supplychain management requires a company to recover from disruptions, which are a normal part of any business. The cost of recovery from a disruption in procurement management depends on factors such as supply source, volume, manufacturing location and inventory. Quantifying by Spend. Lack of Visibility.
However, while technology evolves to allow better tracking of carbon footprint, there’s a potential to substantially improve overall logistics sustainability by addressing a less often discussed but insidious problem. That’s potentially frustrating. It’s seemingly an intractable problem that represents, according to some data, nearly.1%
While reliable service and low prices are still important, these metrics have become prerequisites for commercial success. Companies are almost forced to use supplychain as a competitive advantage, and that puts pressure on us to understand their business strategy.”.
According to Statista, the world’s merchant container ship fleet grew from 11 million metric tons (mt) of deadweight tonnage (a measure of a vessel’s weight-carrying capacity) to 275 million mt in 2020—a 2500% increase. These include global firms that have made major commitments to reducing the GHGs associated with their supplychains.
Stuart William was in one of my former MBA classes at NC State in 2008, and graduated into one of the worst economies ever in May of 2009. Marsh did not have centralized approach to supplychain management. But because of their less mature supplychain organization, the net income percentage was in the low single digits.
If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supplychain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.
Subscribe to SupplyChain Game Changer. m/m in 2020 was taken way back in 2008 and it got ratified in 2016 in the 17th session of MEPC meeting. Reducing sulphur emissions by utilizing low sulphur fuel oils in shipping vessels will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 requirements.
significantly improved their ability to generate cash in 2017, producing the strongest working capital performance since 2008. Supplychain financing is also growing in popularity as a way to improve DPO performance while limiting the impact on suppliers. It can even destabilize a supply base, if companies are not careful.”.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. SupplyChain Management.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. SupplyChain Management.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. SupplyChain Management.
Technology Services. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.
In 2008, Dr. Raymond Panko published a paper detailing examples of human error in data entry. Far from a buzzword, big data analytics in logistics and supplychain management are helping companies gain insight into their current performance while optimizing future operations. His findings? Inventory Predictions.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 102,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content