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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

In this area of research, I find that companies are like dogs chasing cars. 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.)

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The result?

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Supply Chains to Admire: 2016 Results

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The research starts in April and stretches over many weeks as we analyze the different elements and understand the patterns of each industry. Selfishly, we need standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. What Can We Learn from the Research?

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Measuring Up?

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The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Lora Cecere: ‘All the metrics must be in balance’

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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.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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In fact, recent Gartner research shows that less than one-third of procurement teams are well-informed about the priorities of their business partners, and this limit’s procurement’s ability to support them, particularly when economic conditions fluctuate. This list should include the business metrics that each procurement project impacts.

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BASF: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

About the Supply Chains to Admire Research. 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. Here we share the interview with Ralf.