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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The result? The reason?

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The Manufacturers Health Check: Firms Holding Double the Stock Amidst ‘Inventory Crisis’

Unleashed

Gross Margin Return on Inventory (GMROI), a profitability metric that accounts for unsold inventory, has now dropped in all three countries as manufacturers abandon the Just In Time business model for the more costly Just In Case approach. Fulfilment days – the period between receiving and fulfilling an order. However GMROI fell from 1.5

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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.) Yannis transitioned from the role after eight years in 2019.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

The rooftops of medium and large warehouses built before 2019 could produce 185.6 terawatt-hours of solar power would eliminate more than 112 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the report found. Generating the full 185.6 The company is also committing to being an entirely carbon neutral company by 2040.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

As some component lead times push into 2023, the shortage is expected to last 24 months before it recedes – similar to the chip shortage of 2008-2009. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. compared to November 2019, or a 4.2%

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Synthetic Data and Natural Results

Enterra Insights

Netflix discovered this in 2009 when it released anonymized movie reviews penned by subscribers. A company also needs very specific, sophisticated frameworks and metrics that enable it to validate that it created what it set out to create. The task requires people with specialized skills and truly advanced knowledge of AI.

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The Current State of Bottleneck Management and What Companies Need to Do to Improve

ThroughPut

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019. What’s the solution for the above listed bottlenecks?