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When the Rubber Hits the Road

Supply Chain Shaman

Results in the Automotive Industry for the period of 2012-2021. Companies driven by functional metrics struggled: they could not adapt quickly to the higher transportation costs.). As we brace for the future of continued and unplanned disruption, the knee-jerk reaction is to tighten functional metrics. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Focus on functional metrics without alignment to a balanced scorecard to drive value. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Alignment Barriers. Mistake #3.

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

My first training in 2012 was with Ideo. Remember the need for goal clarity, rules, and clear metrics in my opening paragraph? The conference is in Franklin, TN on September 7th-10th, 2021. In preparation, I am handpicking the speakers and finishing up the Supply Chains to Admire analysis for 2021.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. Why do we spend four months doing this?

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

I began analyzing correlations of groups of metrics to market capitalization and found that the most significant correlation was between market capitalization and growth. Initially, I worked with Arizona State statistics professors and graduate students to correlate market factors to 2006-2012 data.)

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Breaking it down In the U.S.

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An Entrepreneur Explains The 10 Things Needed to Build A Business that Investors Can’t Say ‘NO’ To

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2021, more than $25 billion was invested in supply chain companies in just the first three quarters of the year. By 2012 Quiet had revenues of $37 million, was profitable, and in no need of any more investment. “If Their metrics just don’t make sense. Bruce Welty, Founder of the Unicorn Locus Robotics.