Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. 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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Companies entered the pandemic with twenty more days of inventory than at the beginning of the great recession. A balance sheet analysis shows that 95% of publicly traded manufacturers are stuck (when compared to peer group) at the intersection of growth and margin, margin and inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and growth.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Companies can then prioritize their mitigation efforts based on parameters such as value-at-risk, customer importance, and field inventory. When Cisco saw news of wildfires in Colorado in 2012, it wasn’t concerned, because it had no manufacturing or suppliers in the area. This post is credited to Dr. Yossi Sheffi.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Comparison of Owens Illinois Versus Sonoco Products for the Period of 2000-2012. Owens Illinois is investing 3X more in R&D than Sonoco Products; yet Sonoco products had 5X greater growth with 1/2 the inventory.

S&OP 101

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

The two companies’ results on operating margin and inventory turns are shown in figure 1. Comparison of Owens Illinois Versus Sonoco Products for the Period of 2000-2012. Owens Illinois is investing 3X more in R&D than Sonoco Products; yet Sonoco products had 5X greater growth with 1/2 the inventory.

S&OP 100

S&OP Illinois Agile and Lean Supply Chain Inventory Reduction 100

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Medical Device Manufacturer. While hospital supply chain organizations have made progress in the last decade, the gap has widened between the supplier sectors of pharmaceuticals and medical device manufacturers and other manufacturing industries. Published by Supply Chain Insights in November 2012. The problem is us.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Here they are: The Lie of Inventory Reduction. Repeatedly, I heard that supply chain applications have saved costs, reduced inventory and improved customer service. ” I played three lies and a truth with the group. The reason? They did not.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

I was guilty of this from time to time when I led a demand-planning group because we were evaluated on forecast accuracy as one of our key metrics. “ Gartner reports that the predominant inputs to demand-sensing solutions are daily point-of-sale (POS), customer inventory, transactional data, and order and shipment history.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results. Our aim was to maintain a 3 to 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. On the 2nd of April, I sat before a board discussing how a company could exceed expectations in the delivery of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and superior operating margins and fail at the delivery of customer service and inventory. It is a slow week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

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.) Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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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. With a strong manufacturing culture, much of the focus was on lean production systems. It is seldom a step change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Note that neither company is making progress at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Performance of BMS and Merck at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

We have been taught, as supply chain leaders, that over the last decade supply chain processes have improved costs, shortened cycle times, improved customer service and decreased inventory. Based on our recent research, we find that only 1% of process-based companies are making progress on both operating margins and inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. Tipping points are fascinating to watch.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. We produce there because the regulations say that you need to manufacture there to sell there. Service level is our most important metric. Go slow and be clear.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2017

KPIs in Manufacturing: Let’s start with manufacturing. We might also use a KPI to track adherence to cost standards within manufacturing; for example, to see how effective a yield we get from a fixed number of man-hours or a fixed amount of material. A Detailed KPI Explanation: Inventory Days. Some KPI Examples.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

In the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter table, we can clearly see that “operating margin” and “inventory turns” matter to public financial performance. Note the trends in operating margins and inventory turns. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

As I’ve commented in previous postings, if you are a 3PL or transportation company and you’re not involved in cross-border shipping with Mexico, then you are missing out on a growing business opportunity (see Reuters article from December 2012).

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QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Armed with in-depth insights into procurement, inventory management, supplier performance, order management, fulfillment, and more, companies can improve their processes and better manage challenges that arise within their businesses with supply chain analytics. What is Supply Chain Analytics Software?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. In the last decade E2open did not integrate acquisitions well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

In 2012 I built on these concepts to define the market-driven value network. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. (The Market-Driven Processes. Channel Sensing. Order Policy.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. Since 2012, rents have increased by 5.6%

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Talking Logistics

MAY 17, 2013

Chainalytics Creates New Metrics for Demand Planning Consortium. Descartes’ GLN, route planning and transportation management solutions and deep domain expertise can help our retail, distribution and manufacturing customers in managing their global and local inbound logistics and delivery operations.”. .

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. That in-turn raises the challenge of the ability to manage inventories across cross-channel commerce, along with the ability to position and deploy inventory to the most profitable channel and associated store outlets. Posted by Bob Ferrari on August 10, 2012 1:21 PM | Permalink. Automotive.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Deloitte ).

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Demand planning is the most critical process in the CPG industry, since it drives all downstream processes (raw material/finished goods inventory planning, procurement planning, capacity planning, manpower planning, transportation planning, etc.) Posted by: Kundan Raj Singh | January 11, 2012 12:01 PM.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

You’ll lose this title if more than 25 percent of your business is owned by a larger alcohol manufacturer. A 2017 ANZ report suggests that craft breweries are more labour intensive, which may explain the rise in the employment rate for the beer market, as well as its relatively low labour productivity metrics over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

More and more companies are struggling to make progress in operating margin and inventory cycles. To understand the pervasive nature of this change, consider Amazon’s 2012 announcement: “We now have more than 15 million items in Amazon Prime, this is up 15x since we launched in 2005. Amazon 2012 Annual Report. Current State.

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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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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2023

With omni-channel fulfillment, automation, labor, and sustainability trends accelerating, we believe that this placement reflects our innovation-driven culture that is inspired by our customers in the manufacturing, retail, and third-party logistics (3PL) industries.

Gartner 74

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mariotti states that you first have to measure it, and he outlines several metrics and techniques in the book, including ranking customers by annual sales, profit, and gross margin percentage. Inventory : Having raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP) or finished goods that are not having value added to them.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. As a result, organizations end up either under stocked (that leads to lost customers) or overstocked (leading to unwanted inventory carrying costs). Posted by Naveen Polyamut on May 9, 2012 11:10 AM | Permalink. December 2012. November 2012. October 2012. September 2012.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. 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. Automotive.

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EMERGE App

MAY 10, 2020

As some of you may know, EMERGE App was born out of an in-house inventory management solution for a custom t-shirt printing business that our founder ran while in school. But it ultimately brought respectable profits and a pivot to the inventory management solution that you see today. trillion in 2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

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.) The fear is the readiness of adoption of a laggard industry where only 3% of manufacturers are early adopters.

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