Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

It is now our fifth year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies are outperforming their peer groups on the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while driving improvement. This is the fun part of my job. This work is not easy. Today, it is not.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 13, 2014

Not because he lacks vision, but because he has been focusing on the wrong performance metrics for too long. His first realization is that in order to improve the plants performance, he needs new relevant metrics and KPIs. 2010), The Goal: Third Edition, Gower Publishing: Burlington, USA. Got a comment? Reference: Goldratt E.,

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 21, 2017

Balance looks at Revenue Growth and Return on Invested Capital results from 2010 to 2016. Cisco Balance Metrics. Cisco Balance Metrics Orbit Chart. As a result of decreasing in both metrics, Cisco’s balance score was -0.19. Strength looks at Operating Margin and Inventory Turn results from 2010 to 2016.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. inventory turns. for inventory turns define best-in-class performance? for inventory turns define best-in-class performance?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Industry-by-industry, I compiled data for the period of 2010-2018. It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The companies I work with struggle to set metrics targets. Celebrating Success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data. They all sound alike and each company makes similar claims of how the implementation of supply chain planning improves costs, lowers inventory and improves the return on assets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2017

As a result, tor most companies, the goals are unclear and the financial metrics are not well-understood. When I started this research in 2010, I believed that P&G and Wal-Mart would meet this criteria. This year-over-year comparison, enables visualization of performance on two metrics. ” The answer will be “Yes!

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

Balance looks at the change in Revenue Growth and the change in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the years included in the analysis (2010 – 2016). For this reason, a company shows greater balance if the improvement of one of the metrics does not cause a negative effect on the other. P&G Balance Metrics. Resiliency.

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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. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics. This research, released in 2005, gives a compelling view of a metrics hierarchy. This does not mean I think forecasting is an unimportant process.

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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). Diversified Industry Performance For the Period of 2010-2017. Meet Ernest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

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. Pharmaceutical Ranking for the Supply Chains to Admire Analysis. This is problematic for the supply chain leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Companies entered the pandemic with twenty more days of inventory than at the beginning of the great recession. I began analyzing correlations of groups of metrics to market capitalization and found that the most significant correlation was between market capitalization and growth.

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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. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Orbit Chart of Colgate at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. What CEO does not like the concept of reducing inventory? It is cash.

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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. Form and Function of Inventory.

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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). Diversified Industry Performance For the Period of 2010-2017. Meet Ernest.

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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.

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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. Form and Function of Inventory.

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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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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Owens Illinois is investing 3X more in R&D than Sonoco Products; yet Sonoco products had 5X greater growth with 1/2 the inventory. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. Notice the more controlled pattern of Sonoco products.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Owens Illinois is investing 3X more in R&D than Sonoco Products; yet Sonoco products had 5X greater growth with 1/2 the inventory. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. Notice the more controlled pattern of Sonoco products.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns. It proves to be more resilient.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 17, 2013

Chainalytics Creates New Metrics for Demand Planning Consortium. In other news… Descartes Signs SuiteCloud Developer Network Agreement With NetSuite. HighJump Software Announces New Partnership With NetSuite. UPS App For iPad Advances Suite Of Customer Technology Offerings. Maersk warns on slowing global trade ( Financial Times ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. You can see this in my writing during the period of 2000-2010. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. 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.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

These last two elements are particularly important from an operations and supply chain perspective and we postulate metrics to measure their effectiveness.   Since the purpose of quick response is to reduce markdowns and stockouts, its effective implementation should lead to a better gross margin and less inventory.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 1, 2015

This was Avaya’s reality around 2010. It not only impacted key operational metrics (like reducing gross inventory levels, improving inventory turns and reducing cash-to-carry cycles) but also had a huge impact on corporate culture. So much so, that I gave up on even making New Year’s resolutions a long time ago!).

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QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

In 2020, Coca-Cola achieved a goal to reduce relative carbon emissions by 25% by 2020, against a 2010 baseline, and is now working on further reductions. In other examples, you’ll find ERP provides the necessary insights and metrics, like OEE , to enhance production execution.

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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. Look again!

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

A new study by the SupplyChainDigest analyzing the main components of working capital: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), and Days Payables Outstanding (DPO) revealed an uptick in DIO. New Study Shows a Rise in US Company Inventories. This and much more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 26, 2012

The result was improved flexibility of production, as well as better inventory and asset management. Even though the company achieved success with development of IT and partnership with SAP, there were still some gaps in the supply chain as of 2010. With these acquisitions, Coca-Cola was able to better control supply chain operations.

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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. Big data analytics in supply chain management between 2010 and 2016: Insights to industries. no opt-in). no opt-in).

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

Ensure continued alignment by sharing inventory turns as a KPI. Figure 1 shows it for inventory and service. The idea is that more service, typically comes with a higher inventory (or lower turns). They increase the service but require a higher inventory. It will lower cost but increase inventory or decrease turns, cfr.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Inventory management strategies surrounding traceability must account for seasonal demand for products. restaurants featured pumpkin-flavored options in 2010, that number rose to 14.5 Inventory workers must track products as they move through the warehouse to ensure nothing gets left behind. percent in 2015.

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