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. Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 30, 2015

But in fact, all the metrics must be in balance,” says Lora Cecere from Supply Chain Insights. The analyst was joined by Bram Desmet, managing director of Solventure, to present her latest book, Supply Chain Metrics that Matter, in Brussels on 18 March 2015. They are often measuring individual metrics versus the whole,” states Cecere. Supply Chain Metrics that Matter.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In 2009, the United States boosted import duties on Chinese tires from 4% to 35%, and did so with only 15 days’ notice. The post Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H. There are many ways to measure supply chain performance in terms of resilience, but there is one that’s easily overlooked even though it is gaining in importance: Detection time.

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Arkieva

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. Between 2009 and 2010 during the economic downturn, it was difficult to make sense of the unemployment numbers. In developing supply chain metrics , we need to be conscious of this as well. The metrics that we put in place must have the drill down capability to point us towards an action that will improve the overall metric.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

For instance, during the great recession of 2009, 85% of Chief Procurement Officers reported they had more influence than prior to the crisis, but by 2013, that influence waned significantly for two-thirds of those leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are a portfolio of metrics which correlate to higher market capitalization. The composite of metrics includes growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital.) While most companies make improvements in single metrics, pushing the whole portfolio forward is tougher.

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EFT

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Survey respondents identified the top technologies they are considering as new tools or applications that improve supply chain visibility and tracking (47%) and operational analytics to better track business metrics and indicators (39%).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). To make the Supply Chains to Admire list, a company had to score above average of their peer group for supply chain improvement as measured by the Index, and drive performance above average in the portfolio of metrics for operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mariotti states that you first have to measure it, and he outlines several metrics and techniques in the book, including ranking customers by annual sales, profit, and gross margin percentage. Lean is often associated with discrete manufacturing processes, but the discipline has been adapted and implemented in the process industries too, as documented in the book “ Lean for the Process Industries: Dealing with Complexity ” (Productivity Press, May 2009) by Peter L.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. by Trevor Miles I was at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago earlier this week. I’m a pretty jaded conference goer, so it is difficult to please me, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the keynotes and sessions I attended.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2016

3PL market has grown by roughly 7% annually since 2009 and is expected to reach $170 billion by the end of 2016. 3PLs are being asked by shippers to create better metrics to provide both added understanding and a deeper perspective as to what’s occurring inside their business both yesterday, in real time and tomorrow. In recent years, shippers have encountered new standards of velocity, market choice and cost for their products.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Last week, I spoke on the evolution of the digital supply chains and my vision for Supply Chain 2020 at the World Trade Group Event in Miami.

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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. This, my friends, is why we need to get back to CORE supply chain metrics when measuring the Top 25.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 19, 2013

The article published in question, Knowledge sharing in interorganizational product development teams: the effect of formal and informal socialization mechanisms , was published in the Journal of Production Innovation Management in 2009. As papers need at least three years to accumulate citation data, the 2013 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2009.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2013

These examples point to a key metric that’s emerging for quantifying the value of social networking : Time-to-Resolution. Back in April 2009, only about 25 percent of 50-64 year olds were using social networking technologies, compared to about 78 percent of 18-29 year olds. I’m always on the lookout for companies that are using social networking technologies to enable business processes other than marketing and customer service.

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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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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. After a cold and wet holiday weekend, summer has arrived with a vengeance, with temperatures in the 90s yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Time to put away the turtlenecks and find my bathing suit.

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The Supply Chain Journal

APRIL 30, 2021

Transportation Command for a breakdown of service metrics and freight costs by subcontracted carriers, but was told “TRANSCOM has no contractual authority or means to obtain this information since they do not have privity of contract with subcontractors.”.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Stuart William was in one of my former MBA classes at NC State in 2008, and graduated into one of the worst economies ever in May of 2009. In 2009 it lost two-thirds of their sales – and lost money for four years in a row. Upon graduation, there simply weren’t any jobs available at all! During that period, he networked with as many people as possible, including a fund raising arm at Wake Tech. He met a colleague who worked at Car Quest, and after several interviews, started there.

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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. In the modeling, my recommendation is to look at the cost metrics in aggregate. In the end, we were all going to live “happily ever after.” ” At least, that’s what was promised. I was at three clients’ sites over the course of the last two weeks.

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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. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. The reason? With growth slowing and complexity rising, S&OP is more important than ever.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Consistent Business Intelligence - BI metrics can be obtained consistently across the entire business banking on the foundation of single version of master data. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009. May 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. About Us. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers. Infosys Labs. Industries. Industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

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 city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. On the door of my favorite coffee shop is a closed sign. There is no traffic on the streets. Only armed guards with dogs stand on the corners: strategically posted behind 8 foot barricades.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

2009: H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico. However, the logic Cisco uses to manage the disruption is very robust and details are summarized into the infographic below, Note: metrics data is for illustrative purpose. Metrics look very simple and its kind of nice to have something like these. But when you look closely, metrics are segmented by the level of impact (impact at component level, process level and site level). In general, you may not be able to get all level of metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

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. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics. The strong functional silos focus on their own metrics which seldom include the cycle metrics of inventory turns, working capital or cash-to-cash.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Last week, Wal-Mart announced the closing of 269 stores and the layoffs of 10,000 employees. In addition, Macy’s announced the closure of 36 stores and K-Mart followed suite with announcements of 27 store closings. What does this mean?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s what I wrote back on this date in 2009, as I recalled the events of that tragic day eight years earlier: I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, near Red Hook and the docks. They also lack process controls and metrics. Today is September 11. I never forget. My father and uncles owned a bodega on Columbia Street, and we lived upstairs in a small apartment.

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The Supply Chain Journal

APRIL 30, 2021

Transportation Command for a breakdown of service metrics and freight costs by subcontracted carriers, but was told “TRANSCOM has no contractual authority or means to obtain this information since they do not have privity of contract with subcontractors.”.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.) December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009. May 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. About Us. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers. Infosys Labs. Industries. Industries. Aerospace and Defense. Airlines. Automotive.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

In our March commentary, the takeaway was that these rapidly changing retailer business models imply that organizations can no longer assume the same organizational structures of accountability where marketing and supply chain teams supporting physical stores and online fulfillment reside in separate organizational entities with conflicting metrics. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

Founded in 2009, Forerunner Ventures specializes in investing in commerce-related businesses including Warby Parker, Away, Jet, Hims, Hers, Glossier, Bonobos, and others. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. What sounds like a lot of money? million.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009. May 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. About Us. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers. Infosys Labs. Industries. Industries. Aerospace and Defense.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Example: For a shipper, number of shipments at a 3PL warehouse might be a relevant metric while the 3PL provider may be more interested in the number of shipments for all serviced shippers. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009. May 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. About Us. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers.

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