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

Supply Chain Shaman

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.) Discontinued in 2011. A potential value of a digital twin.).

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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). A focus on functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance.)

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AI-Tuned Pricing and Inventory Strategies are the Way Forward for Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

By harnessing the growing power of AI to not only sense demand at a very fine-grain, real-time level, but also to govern decisions about pricing and inventory. AI can help. The company says its new approach uses agentic AI to transform consumer feedback into profitable retail growth strategies.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

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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The Power of Purchase Order Collaboration: A Game-Changer in Managing Direct Spend

Logistics Viewpoints

Here is a summary of the key supply chain characteristics of each of the manufacturing strategy and how it impacts collaboration with suppliers. By effectively addressing the challenges in PO Collaboration, organizations can mitigate disruptions, reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

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Unilever and Colgate: Two Bookends?

Supply Chain Shaman

If the definition is the balancing of costs and inventory, the winner is Colgate. However, what is now clear to me is that whatever the evaluative metric, Unilever is at the bottom of the CPG peer group and should never be seen as a supply chain leader. In 2011, Colgate had revenues of $16.7 billion and had 38,000 employees.

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Lora Cecere on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter

AIMMS

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). So I sat down at my kitchen table in the winter of 2011. Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics.

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