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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. Organizational Alignment 2012. Focusing on transactions at the expense of understanding and harvesting insights from market data resulted in implementing the wrong set of controls.

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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.) As shown in Figure 1, the results for the period of 2012-2021 tell the story.

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The Dance With AI

Supply Chain Shaman

The industry first started speaking of digital in 2012, but today, it is still an amorphous concept. (My My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) Narrow AI is enabling insights based on disparate data. My analogy is putting a new engine in an old jalopy.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. My goal is to convince you to ground supply chain processes and technology implementations in data analysis while tying the results to the improvement in corporate performance. My focus was simple. What do I mean by science?

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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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5 Quality Metrics Predicting The Future Of Manufacturing

IQMS

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks. Quality Metrics Defining the Future of Manufacturing.

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Data and Digitization in Manufacturing

Enterra Insights

”[1] Manufacturing becomes even more relevant to advanced economies thanks to data and digitization. “We live in a data-driven world,” writes Graham Pickren, an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Studies at Roosevelt University. We tend to focus our attention on what is new about the era of big data.