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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

Supply Chain Design Software

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. According to Accenture, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies saw supply chain disruptions and 75% had negative or strongly negative impacts on their businesses due to the pandemic. Procurement Teams Step-up.

Optimal Sourcing

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

Supply Chain Design Software

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Executing Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. The Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategy needs both.). I am on a mission.

Cost Reduction Strategies

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015. Understanding What Drives Supply Chain Excellence. Esra leads international supply chain operations in over 140 countries.

Pharmaceutical

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Achieving enterprise-wide adoption of supply chain risk management

Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A common challenge for procurement and supply chain professionals is obtaining support from C-level leaders to invest in a robust supply chain risk management (SCRM) program. But to make their strongest case, SCRM advocates need to focus on one key metric: return on investment.

Supply Chain Risk Management

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. The reason?

Pharmaceutical

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

Case Study

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 26, 2012

.” Or, a casual comment of, “We cannot run our supply chains like we used to.” When you run the graphs, there is marked difference for these companies that begins to appear in 2009. In fact, I am surprised how few companies are knowledgeable on their own performance on supply chain ratios.

Manufacturing Procurement

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Supply Chain Management:Smarter Partnering for Smarter Business

Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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

ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

Material Savings

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Supply Chain Management:Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The design of the supply chain is fundamental to making this happen. In our interview of the Supply Chains to Admire Winners, we found a unique approach at Carter’s. Supply Chain Index.

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BASF: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the last two decades the company successfully leveraged global scale to define supply chain leadership. With 12,000 supply chain employees operating in 80 countries with 2400 storage facilities, supply chain excellence and innovation are the foundation of corporate performance. BASF creates chemistry.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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Supply Chain Management:Demand Planning in CPG industry.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Supply Chain Management:Growing interest in sustainability from.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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2013 Third-Party Logistics Study

Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 6, 2013

The success of the third-party logistics industry is evident in the generally high marks given to 3PLs by respondents to a survey as part of the 2013 17th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, which identifies trends and explores how both 3PLs and shippers are using these relationships to improve and enhance their businesses and supply chains.

Third Party Logistics

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

Supply Chain Design Software

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Business Process Optimization in Asset Management - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

Optimal Sourcing

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Make Your Supply Chains Less Complex – and Less Wasteful!

Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve: The Process Industry Executive Agenda for 2016 and Beyond , a white paper published earlier this year by Elemica with research conducted by Adelante SCM. How do you reduce supply chain complexity, or at least slow its growth?

Waste Reduction

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

ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. We aspire to operate like a healthy cardiovascular system, which is the world’s most impressive supply chain network to date. We promote activities that enable stand-alone competency.

Resource Reduction

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What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. We aspire to operate like a healthy cardiovascular system, which is the world’s most impressive supply chain network to date. We promote activities that enable stand-alone competency.

Resource Reduction

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Training for the Next Triathlon. Insights for You?

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 4, 2013

I see a lot of parallels in the training that I did for the triathlon, and the work that I am doing on financial ratios with Abby Mayer on my team at Supply Chain Insights. Abby and I are writing an e-book on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. We call this the Supply Chain Index. A Clear Plan.

Price Mitigation Strategies

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). In his 2009 Foresight article, Bob Stahl emphasizes the five-step sequential monthly process. TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY.

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Supply Chain Management:Supply Chain Visibility: The need.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. View all Infosys blogs. Features & Opinions. |.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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Supply Chain Management:Instance Consolidation Strategy

Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

Sourcing Strategies

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Demand Planning - Practicing the Best Practices - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. View all Infosys blogs. Features & Opinions. |.

Supply and Demand

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

The following is a guest blog from Craig Lukasik , one of my former MBA students from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? – Why should managers who work outside of “Supply Chain” care about this study? Thanks Craig!

Analytics Software

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Supply Chain Brief

My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

Trending Sources

Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Executing Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies

Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Achieving enterprise-wide adoption of supply chain risk management

New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Measuring Up?

Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Management:Smarter Partnering for Smarter Business

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

Supply Chain Management:Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the.

Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

BASF: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Management:Demand Planning in CPG industry.

Supply Chain Management:Growing interest in sustainability from.

2013 Third-Party Logistics Study

How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Business Process Optimization in Asset Management - Infosys Blogs

Make Your Supply Chains Less Complex – and Less Wasteful!

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

What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

Training for the Next Triathlon. Insights for You?

Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Management:Supply Chain Visibility: The need.

Supply Chain Management:Instance Consolidation Strategy

Demand Planning - Practicing the Best Practices - Infosys Blogs

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

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