Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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. Aligned Metrics. We find that this is true of too few companies.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We built peer groups based on like industries. If the company had multiple divisions crossing over many industries, where did you place them? We placed them in the industry that they were the most like, e.g., the primary source of revenue. Which companies were considered in the study? We tried to use NAICS code designations.

Pharmaceutical 179

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The industries have different drivers. It is clear.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2015

Noel Perry, economist and trucking industry expert, predicts a reduction in the nation’s trucking force by 700,000 drivers. This adds to the existing insufficiency in numbers of new drivers coming into the industry to replace retiring drivers and thus a massive trucker shortage. Shippers should budget and price accordingly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I thought that the industry averages were fairly constant. A Case Study.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

New manufacturing data has revealed which industries and nations are leading the way in the post-pandemic economic recovery – and the tactics they’re using to beat supply chain disruption. We did this by analysing four key metrics: The average value of total stock on hand – reflecting the volume of goods held (plus impacts from inflation).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. PCA was a certified supplier based on an accepted industry certification methodology by AIB International. Unfortunately, not much has changed in the industry. The sentence is groundbreaking.

Pharmaceutical 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

While other analysts may put the vendors into a four-square evaluation model and declare it magic, I think that this approach does a disservice to the industry. 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.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Unleashed Manufacturing Health Index calibrates industry fitness on a scale of 0-100 for SME manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Index figures are calculated from a combination of core performance metrics, including sales performance, purchasing and internal efficiency.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. « The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities | Main | Factors Influencing Delivery Address Amendment » Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 29, 2013

A CPO in the financial services industry also noted that a need to redefine procurement’s role in the enterprise is happening, driven by the recognition that a new type of procurement capability is needed: Prior to our transformation, the ONLY metric by which our performance was measured is how much money we saved for the organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Dealing with the talent shortage in emerging economies will redefine human resource policies and industry consortia programs. 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. Redefinition of Talent.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 31, 2013

On the 3PL front, Greenbriar Equity Group LLC acquired Transplace from an affiliate of CI Capital Partners, who together with Transplace’s management team bought the company from its original owners in 2009. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. For related commentary, see “ Beware, Driverless Cars are Everywhere!

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 26, 2012

When you run the graphs, there is marked difference for these companies that begins to appear in 2009. Traditional supply chains in process-based industries operate on this assumption. In the modeling, my recommendation is to look at the cost metrics in aggregate. Based on the analysis, I no longer think that this is true.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

And so, here’s the unabridged version of why industrial operations bottleneck elimination is the world’s greatest mission. ThroughPut’s vision is to eliminate industrial bottlenecks that tie up over 10 trillion dollars of under-utilized/wasted resources to empower the bottom economic 50% of the world.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

His company made parts for the mining industry, and he was leading an S&OP process. Based on the work I was doing on financial metrics, and studying the Supply Chain Effective Frontier, I was convinced that companies cannot effectively model the required trade-offs of good supply chain decision-making in S&OP using spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. The patterns of BMS and Merck are typical in the pharmaceutical industry. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015. Understanding What Drives Supply Chain Excellence.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service. Amazon has reshaped the Retail experience, and is in the process of reshaping the distribution industry.

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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. However it is tougher for an industry leader like L’Oreal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. The Company was my client for many years at AMR Research, and when I look at Mark’s slides for the webinar, I see many of the elements that we heatedly debated in the period of 2009-2010. I am on a mission.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Supply Chain Excellence as defined by a methodology whereall companies are put into a spreadsheet and compared across industries is meaningless. In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. As shown in Table 1, the growth of traditional retail industries is declining. Table 1: Contract of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns and Cash-To-Cash for Consumer-Facing Industries. What does this mean? I think three things: Decline in Customer Sentiment.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

And yet we continue to perpetuate organizational structures and work practices that were established in the Industrial Revolution based upon military concepts of command and control. It immediately brings home the need for trade-off across competing metrics and objectives. Ian is more of a futurist, though I only have a link from 2009.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

He joined Logistics Bureau Group back in 2009 and commenced by running the benchmarking business known as Benchmarking Success. We set our performance targets according to the best-in-class metrics and I ended up helping these three companies successively achieve demonstrable best-in-class supply chain performance. What ticks them off?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. « Oil operators and Oil services firms - time to dissolve internal walls | Main | Enabling individual item picking in tomorrows warehouses » Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the Future of Retail Industry. Contact Us.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. IT enablement in areas like Mobile work management, Health and Safety, Metrics monitoring (KPI) etc. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

Foster future economic growth within the freight and goods movement industry. 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. Read Full Article.

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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. Organizations are bigger and bigger with over 2700 mergers and acquisitions in the process industries within the last seven years. For the Love of the Cloud. Only three vendors on the technology list do not offer a cloud-enabled service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

He is an industrial engineer with a diploma in transportation and logistics from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven. Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” This trend was characteristic of the chemical industry. Performance.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. Our first obvious impression was that though the sustainability scope is wide and limitless, so far the main focus for industries and organizations is on energy savings in buildings. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers.

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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.

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Supply Chains Rock

JULY 7, 2009

Tuesday, July 07, 2009. and $745 million internationally with first-tier diverse suppliers In 2008, IBM’s PELM operations worldwide processed 42,302 metric tons of end-of-life products and product waste. Industrial Interface. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

The research starts in April and stretches over many weeks as we analyze the different elements and understand the patterns of each industry. 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. Why do we do it?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. She is trying to redefine the industry analyst model to make it friendlier and more useful for supply chain leaders. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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. Improvement.

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