Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

In 2010, a vendor architecture evolved with Cloudera providing packaged Hadoop solutions and Hortonworks providing Hadoop IT services. Market-Driven Forecasting: Historically, the use of linear optimization and genetic algorithms to sense future trends from order and shipment patterns and predict the future defined forecasting.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. The leadership team at Sonoco Products aligned a metrics portfolio against a business strategy in 2010. There was a faction that wanted traditional production agreements run to a forecast with pre-established lead-time agreements with customers. Consistency of Leadership.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. The leadership team at Sonoco Products aligned a metrics portfolio against a business strategy in 2010. There was a faction that wanted traditional production agreements run to a forecast with pre-established lead-time agreements with customers. Consistency of Leadership.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a Groundhog emerges fro m the burrow, then the forecast of an early spring is predicted. It is one of the reasons that I left Gartner in 2010. We believe that supply chain excellence is driving improvement while averaging a higher level of performance in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. Forecasting hierarchies need to roll up to define business requirements, and inventory needs to be reported by form and function. Reporting Structure.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. The example below shows how a wide spectrum is being used to accomplish demand forecasting, and Lennox is using machine learning today.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 17, 2013

Chainalytics Creates New Metrics for Demand Planning Consortium. In related news, Maersk downgraded its forecast for ocean shipping demand. The company now expects container demand to grow 2 to 4 percent this year, down from the 4 to 5 per cent it forecast back in February.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Due to the enhanced visibility of data and metrics across peer groups, sales leads have improved their customer service by walking prospective customers through the operations process and comfortably answering any queries on how success is measured. Overall, MDI provides organizations with key takeaways and measured KPIs.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck with inputs from the traditional processes of collaborative forecasting, and traditional definitions of demand planning, demand error and bias are high. These traditional forecasting processes perpetuate the Bullwhip Effect, amplifying and distorting channel pulls. The reason? The process is flawed. source Moody’s).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Demand Planning is a cyclic process and the last step in the cycle is a formal review of the forecast with the ongoing Sales. Demand Planning is a cyclic process and the last step in the cycle is a formal review of the forecast with the ongoing Sales. Capturing Seasonality factor & using same to tune forecast. December 2010.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Indeed, participants in the 2010 CCM survey said that only two in 10 of their collaboration efforts delivered significant results. Collaborating to improve forecasting and demand planning is likely to be frustrating if one partner’s existing planning processes, systems, or performance are inadequate.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 7, 2018

Last year, I developed the DAT Freight Barometers as a predictive tool, to help explain and forecast transportation pricing trends. DAT Freight Barometers are based on metrics and statistics from DAT load boards. The Freight Barometer is an excellent predictor of changes in spot market van rates.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

IT enablement in areas like Mobile work management, Health and Safety, Metrics monitoring (KPI) etc. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010.

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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.

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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. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Let’s take a closer look at this important metric. Inventory turnover is a metric you can use to calculate how quickly your business completely sells through and replaces the goods in its inventory, within a set time period. Work on your forecasting. But how do you forecast so accurately? What is inventory turnover?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

A further benefit of integration of these many systems is to allow organizations to effectively report on their sustainability metrics. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. January 2010.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

While the overall aircraft program spans decades, the contracts typically are not for extended periods of time due to huge costs (hundreds of millions to trillions of dollars, and poor forecasting for 20 to 30 in the future). The contract may also include metrics and resulting consequences (late fees, etc.). Mitigation. Description.

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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 Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. In 2010-2011 Shell partnered with Terra Technology to roll-out demand sensing as a bolt-on to the SAP environment. As the number of items being sold grew, they became increasingly more difficult to forecast.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. The performance factors evaluated in the analysis are: Growth. (If you trace the year-over-year pattern, you can see that P&G made progress on inventory turns and operating margin 2006-2007, 2009-2010.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

More than 10 years pass and this article is considered the "classic" article and got republished in 2010. If you make the demand forecast based on SKU/Store level , using the POS data you get from retailers is more accurate than using your own historical order data. 7) Adopt Both Service and Financial Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Clorox Performance Compared to Competitors (Supply Chain Index is a relative metric of growth.). He is now retired but realized in 2010 that the past supply chain model of “one size fits all” would no longer work in a changing market requiring new and different capabilities. The entire supply chain needed a redesign.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

It has been forecasted that by 2040, approximately 95% of all purchases will be facilitated by ecommerce. From 2010-2016, venture capital funds invested in over 2000 early stage deals in the ‘internet’ sector. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. Scalable order fulfillment.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

In this blog I will focus on first couple of sub process of demand planning cycle - 1) Setting up demand planning objectives and metrics for different business units/customers/key items/locations 2) Setting up the frequency of the forecasting process (create/review/publish) with the time horizons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2020

Personal Products Manufacturers Industry Averages for the Period of 2010-2019. Industry Averages for Food Manufacturers for the Period of 2010-2019. Industry Averages for Apparel Manufacturers for the Period of 2010-2019. This week, E2open published its annual report on forecast accuracy. Our strategies are flawed.

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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. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010.

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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. Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting (59). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. PepsiCo is also using IoT technology to gain insights into consumer buying patterns, and machine learning to improve the accuracy of its daily forecasts. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. Media Image.

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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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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

You can also use these metrics to benchmark against similar taprooms in your neighbourhood. Managers often have to forecast sales volume and the fixed costs associated with each unit. Depending on how reliable and accurate the forecast is, the cost-plus price can easily be too high or too low. How to price beer.

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