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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. This is an analysis of traditional retail minus eCommerce pure plays.) To accomplish these processes, companies need to embrace big data architectures for streaming data. The data sets are larger and more complex. What does this mean?

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. Through this analysis, you are able to develop an effective and efficient supply chain. Service level is our most important metric.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. The food recall is the largest in US history. What happened?

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. As a group, public companies want to make progress to both drive and sustain metrics performance, but they cannot.

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Synthetic Data and Natural Results

Enterra Insights

As Lucini and Shaked note, one of the primary drivers behind the use of synthetic data is privacy. Science writer Anjana Ahuja ( @anjahuja ) reports, “In an algorithm-driven world where data is king, one misstep can lead to a royal mess. In addition, hackers can easily reconstruct the original data by using external information.

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