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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. Each year, in March, when companies complete their final reporting, we analyze the balance sheet patterns for improvement, peer group comparison of performance and value. Methodology Comparison.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Shaman

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? The data analyzed to compile the Supply Chains to Admire report came from publicly-available information from balance sheets and income statements. As a result, you will not find 3M or GE in the data.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Insights

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? The data analyzed to compile the Supply Chains to Admire 2014 report came from publicly-available information from balance sheets and income statements. As a result, you will not find 3M or GE in the data.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. Can you help us with what you see in the data?”

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Who's Really Running Your Retail Operation?

C3 Solutions

But WMS only really came into its own after the 2009 recession , as the economic rebound prompted the beginning of the e-commerce boom and renewed consumer spending. 8 Real-time data like this allow managers to shift labour to where it's needed and will be most productive, thus helping to keep costs under control.

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Treading Water

Supply Chain Shaman

Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% Post-recession versus pre-recession labor inputs declined by 45% while the more recent comparison is only a 19% labor improvement. I am a self-professed data geek.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). Institute for Supply Management data indicated that growth in production, orders, and inventory slowed in January…January 2015 freight shipments were up 5.6 percent, the biggest decline since March 2009, after falling 1.0 percent in December.