Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Let’s start with a definition. Used from the 17th century until the late mid-20th century, a ball and chain found in 2009 in the United Kingdom from the 17th century was an 18 pound ball six inches in diameter. By definition, it is not outside-in. It is hard to jump when with a ball and chain. Let me explain.

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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.” To be a collaborative trading partner, build a good perpetual inventory signal. Focus on Clean Data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Table 1: Contract of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns and Cash-To-Cash for Consumer-Facing Industries. In parallel, take a closer look at inventory turns where only pharmaceutical companies made slight progress. Ecommerce has changed the definition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad inventory.” Orbit Chart for Inventory Turns and Operating Margin from 2009-2016 for Company A.

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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. In addition, 85% of the vendors in the multi-tier inventory optimization market that I wrote about in 1995, are now part of larger platforms. This is a major turnaround. Visualization. Visualization is improving. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

Sales incentives drove a positive bias that inflated inventory. Allergic to inventory, Fred worked out arrangements with distributors to push inventory into the channel. He saw all inventory as “bad.” In Figure A, I share the orbit charts at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for two periods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

He is an engaging personality: definitely a people person. Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. Orbit Chart of Syngenta and Monsanto of Progress on Operating Margin and Inventory Turns.

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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 Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. We think that the definition of a measuring stick is important. Interview of a Supply Chain Leader: Redesigning for Value.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Are poor results only attributable to the usual suspects such as weak change control board, less than ideal program management, schedule/cost overruns, poor definition of requirements etc? Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. April 2009.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

There are lots of benefits of a dark store, but let’s begin with a definition of the term “dark store,” if it’s a new one to you. In the UK, Tesco opened its first dark store in 2009, but here in the US, grocery and retail stores have only recently started to make the move. Inventory management. What is a Dark Store?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

That in-turn raises the challenge of the ability to manage inventories across cross-channel commerce, along with the ability to position and deploy inventory to the most profitable channel and associated store outlets. Please keep it up because without the internet is definitely lacking in intelligence. December 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2012

In this context, the social media can be leveraged effectively to analyze customer data and achieve more insight on forecasting, planning, scheduling and inventory management. This would help to stock appropriate quantity of inventory and also facilitate in computing the right value of safety stock. December 2009. November 2009.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 2, 2012

The acquisition expands IBM’s cloud-based analytics offerings that provide supply chain intelligence leading to better inventory management and cost efficiencies. The LogicTools LogicNet tool was already a quality Supply Chain Network Strategy product in 2007 when acquired by ILOG which company IBM acquired two years later in 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 19, 2011

When customers asked for future delivery dates, retailers mulled over the use of future inventory to satisfy future demand. In retail, ATP is used alongside future incoming inventory into the warehouse to commit delivery date to the customer. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Arrange your inventory based on how often you need to use it. View the full post or view the snippet below: Over the last 5 years, I have seen many companies launching inventory reduction programs. Our definition of Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SiOP) at Solventure contains the following steps: Read More ».

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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. Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. Even for myself, it took almost a decade to realize what this BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) was.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

It is data driven research: a deep analysis of performance, improvement and Price to Tangible Book Value of 320 companies across 31 industries for the period of 2009-2015. We find the patters and the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin and growth and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) to be insightful.). The Results.

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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. Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. Even for myself, it took almost a decade to realize what this BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) was.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It also allows existing employees to spend less time lugging boxes or finding inventory and more time doing the more complex parts of their job that are difficult to automate. Those inventory systems require more attention because of this (a human gig), as do programming and maintenance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Only 5% of public companies meet the definition for the Supply Chains To Admire for 2016. In the other years, P&G improves inventory turns but regresses on operating margin performance.) Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

It is data driven research: a deep analysis of performance, improvement and Price to Tangible Book Value of 320 companies across 31 industries for the period of 2009-2015. We find the patters and the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin and growth and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) to be insightful.). The Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

The definition is one that can deliver the same cost, quality and level of customer service with the increase in demand and supply volatility. At Supply Chain Insights , we are currently working on some research to understand the current state of technology for S&OP and inventory optimization. Companies want to be agile.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most companies are moving backward on the Supply Chain Matrix That Matter (growth, operating marging, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital). Selfishly, we need a good, standard definition of supply chain excellence for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders improve and benchmark their operations.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Traditionally supply chain model for e-retailers has been to stock inventory at downstream i.e. Distribution Centers (DC). To have centralized inventory visibility. · Retailers like Walmart, who have physical presence are feeding the inventory from stores to fulfill its online orders. No centralized inventory visibility.

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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

MARCH 6, 2014

During peak processing periods - like year closing activities, balance sheet preparation, inventory reconciliation etc. Hence, small companies and new implementations should definitely consider cloud as an option. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

Even during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, ecommerce wasn’t what it is today. Fernanda said their safety stock is for 30 days of inventory to manage any large fluctuations in demand. Open Water has also had challenges in finding drivers and trucks to move inventory around the country, as they try to get into more grocery stores.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Infact, we are aware of some similar initiatives in the time period of 2005-2010 wherein some retailers having very dense footprint in Class “A” cities used an SMS/Text Message based customer helpline for checks on inventory and availability at specific stores. While for a large format retail Super-center it definitely does sound like one.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We’ll definitely have time for questions at the end, but if you have a burning question as we’re talking, please feel free to shoot up your hand and ask. It was 2009, 2010. You’ve got to have inventory in those facilities, hopefully somewhat intelligently driven. So, I guess most online. Laurel: Thank you.

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