Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. What does this mean?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

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. The strength of your decisions is directly dependent on having accurate data going in. Service level is our most important metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

Definition: “Customer - centric is an approach to doing business that focuses on providing a positive customer experience both at the point of sale and after the sale in order to drive profit and gain competitive advantage.” Use channel data and orchestrate supply chain policy to improve outcomes. I am on a mission.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Unfortunately, we find most companies are moving backwards on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital) or are making progress on singular metrics instead of driving performance improvement on a balanced portfolio of supply chain metrics that correlate to market capitalization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Corporate report data is not readily available before 2006. Only 5% of public companies meet the definition for the Supply Chains To Admire for 2016. Another 5% of companies are runners-up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

When I wrote a summary report at AMR Research in 2007 and 2009, there were two or 6% of the market. Data visualization is quickly advancing in the tools. The definition of demand translation is the understanding of changes in product mix and management of demand changes, It is the green arrow in Figure 2. The reason?

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

the “inventory to sales” ratio (inventory levels divided by a month’s worth of sales) spiked in late 2008/early 2009 as the recession caught companies with way more inventory than needed versus suddenly shrinking demand. Let’s start with a definition. As seen in the chart below from the Commerce Dept.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. We studied this pre and post-recession.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Many IBP cycles around the world are based on a 20-year-old process definition supported by 20-year-old planning concepts. In his 2009 Foresight article, Bob Stahl emphasizes the five-step sequential monthly process. KEY POINTS. New Wave 3 Technology can empower a more efficient and responsive planning process.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. Insuring that each function, including online marketing, store operations and supply chain have common objectives, metrics and aligned rewards for the coming year. Please keep it up because without the internet is definitely lacking in intelligence. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009.

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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. Every time I have leveraged existing data, I have made a professional impact in my company’s supply chain. Quantifying that data in dollar amounts is what is tough.

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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. Every time I have leveraged existing data, I have made a professional impact in my company’s supply chain. Quantifying that data in dollar amounts is what is tough.

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