Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The German team overcame disappointments in 2006 and 2010 to win the World Cup this year, while favorites Spain (the defending champion) and Brazil (the host country) were humbled by the competition. BASF’s goals included: Automating the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process from purchase requisition to invoice.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. The company sold on Amazon, operated its own website, managed outlet stores, and could purchase end-aisle displays in major retail chains. Rules, engines, policies and metrics need to align.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. Performance and Improvement for the Period of 2010-2016 for Trucks and Heavy Equipment. AGCO envisioned employing a 3×3 training metrics: every operation would have 3 people able to execute it, and every person would be able to do 3 operations. Time to Value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 26, 2012

Though the company had benefited from equity interests in franchised bottling groups, the need to make more from less prompted Coca-Cola to buy out their main North American distribution groups. Interestingly, the original push for profit has caused Coca-Cola to become an excellent resource in medical distribution.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Online sales have been growing at double-digit rates and the implications profoundly point to the reality that consumers prefer online tools and have shifted their shopping and buying preferences. cities with these lockers in-place are located in states that already collect sales taxes for online purchases. The initial U.S.

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Precoro

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet there’s a proactive approach that addresses the high cost of healthcare: value-based purchasing (VBP). VBP also improves patient satisfaction by fostering greater collaboration among healthcare providers and making the patient experience one of the key evaluation metrics for hospitals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? My second observation is that for 96% of public companies supply chain excellence is slip-sliding away. Reflections on Excellence. Comparing 2010-2019. Tom Peters.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

« 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. In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.)

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 7, 2018

I've studied the transportation sector for decades, mostly as a financial analyst, and I regularly advise transportation company executives and investors on stock purchases. DAT Freight Barometers are based on metrics and statistics from DAT load boards. Donald Broughton is a financial analyst studying the transportation sector.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The contract may also include metrics and resulting consequences (late fees, etc.). Though historically this may not be a significant risk in contracts, in the early 2010’s many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) occurred. CONTRACTING EXCELLENCE JOURNAL , 15 Jan. Risk: Competition in domestic and international markets [7].

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. Defining the Customer-Centric Supply Chain.

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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 first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The result? The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This blog was started in 2010. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. It is the week before Thanksgiving in the United States; and as a good Yank, I am reflective. I am giving thanks. As I read them, I laugh. I give them credit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence. Orders do not represent market demand. If this is you, don’t accept the status quo.

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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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6 River Systems

JULY 22, 2020

We did this by tying metrics to their workload and included those metrics in our weekly all-hands meetings. They are just basic metrics like total shipments per week, shipments per day and item receipts per day, and we compare those numbers vs. previous periods.

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Freightera

APRIL 17, 2020

JV: In 2010 Vancouver created the strongest citywide climate action plan that I’ve seen. And when they know the rules, they can see how to excel within those rules. At the provincial level, we’re saying that by 2024, you will not be able to buy a new fossil fuel vehicle in BC. ZB: Thank you.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Gartner then acquired AMR in 2010. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? What do you say?

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