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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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The Procurement team adds tremendous value in many areas, including operational performance, product quality, faster time to market and more. This list should include the business metrics that each procurement project impacts. In the report, Gartner provides a helpful example of what a value map could look like.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. 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).

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

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 path I took came through R&D where I had many different roles including R&D management and quality assurance. We invested, where it made sense.

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Where have all the Truckers Gone? 10 Strategies for Shippers to Fight the Capacity and Trucker Shortage

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2009 was an exception due to the 2008–2009 recession.) Contracting assures shippers of the capacity they need and assures carriers of the reliable volume and consistency that promotes optimal productivity and service quality. Here are additional priorities in planning for capacity shortage.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. This accepted certification failed to pick-up a decade of PCA quality issues: holds, recall, and customer complaints. This confession comes seven years after selling of contaminated food. What happened?

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Emerald Citation of Excellence 2013 for supply chain innovation article

Supply Chain View from the Field

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.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. This also improved the consistency of our product quality, reduced costs and inventory, and enabled improved reliability through the resulting simplified process.