Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Over the course of the last decade, I have carefully recorded and reported presentation after presentation from conference after conference and interview after interview with supply chain leaders. Abby and Mikey on my team have built a database of financial ratios from publicly available balance sheets from 1995-2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Early 2012 marked the end of the third decade and 2013 finds us into the fourth. When I finished the presentation (the materials are available on slideshare.) It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter. I asked for questions. How would you have answered the question?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Kinaxis

JULY 13, 2018

In a very provocative presentation, Tricia Wang , a tech ethnographer made a compelling case on why organizations shouldn’t hang their hat on big data alone when it comes to decision making. In 2012, 59 percent of surveyed supply chain leaders answered yes. Here are the major themes from the forum: 1. So true indeed!

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Amazon is on the forefront of automation in the warehouse , currently using 45,000 Kiva Robots, after purchasing the company Kiva Systems in 2012 (they’re now renamed “Amazon robots”). Metrics: Autonomous vehicles have sensors to automatically gather data, which can be uploaded to various applications, hosted onsite or in the cloud.

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Logility

MAY 21, 2012

That was the question Michael Uskert, managing vice president, Gartner, asked at the end of the day 1 keynote at Gartner’s 2012 Supply Chain Executive Conference. The presentations harkened the words of John F. The supply chain is hard and you need the right, enabling technology in place.

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Logility

MAY 21, 2012

That was the question Michael Uskert, managing vice president, Gartner, asked at the end of the day 1 keynote at Gartner’s 2012 Supply Chain Executive Conference. The presentations harkened the words of John F. The supply chain is hard and you need the right, enabling technology in place.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Based on the work I was doing on financial metrics, and studying the Supply Chain Effective Frontier, I was convinced that companies cannot effectively model the required trade-offs of good supply chain decision-making in S&OP using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are insufficient. He agreed, but had no idea how to run the test.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

Last week in the middle of a presentation, a supply chain leader made the statement, “We have solved the issues in supply through better optimization and use of data. Currently, we at Supply Chain Insights are working on presentations for our upcoming Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Every time that it happens, I smile.

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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. Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I recently presented this slide to a group of consultants, and a person that I love in the audience raised his hand and said, “Lora, let’s just face it. One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

” Steutermann adds, “It is important not to confuse [sustainability] metrics with the circular economy. Good metrics for the circular economy could be the percentages of reclaimed, reused materials for production and the reduction of single-use plastic.” ” The Green Supply Chain , 31 July 2012.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Where EBIT or EBITDA per inventory $ or per working capital $ helps in getting meaningful benchmarks and aligned targets, they are not common financial metrics. We will close this blog by discussing the Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) which is close to the EBIT% vs CCC, and which is a more common financial metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I loved Peggy’s presentation at the Summit. In 2012, this turned into an IT problem: the tablets were being dropped from the tops of tractors with no warranty available. AGCO envisioned employing a 3×3 training metrics: every operation would have 3 people able to execute it, and every person would be able to do 3 operations.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

million in FY 2012 to $203.8 getting buy-in from drivers and other stakeholders) and implementing appropriate metrics to measure and drive performance.). Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure Group, also presented at the Executive Forum. In five years, the company’s revenues have grown from $114.0 million to $23.8

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

The presentations were all hard-hitting. In the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter table, we can clearly see that “operating margin” and “inventory turns” matter to public financial performance. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric. The Kimberly-Clark team is bullish.

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Arkieva

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Drawing from the Supply Chain Insights Cross-Survey Analysis from 2012-2013, Cecere, outlined the key supply chain challenges that companies face as: Ability to access and use Data. Some of the key differentiators between leading supply chain companies and laggards included a focus on horizontal processes instead of functional metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

In 2012 I built on these concepts to define the market-driven value network. An example of social listening is the Lenovo Case Study presented at the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Clorox will be presenting their insights on building a customer-centric strategy. Market-Driven Processes. Market Drivers.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

But our digital present is in fact deeply connected to our industrial past.”[2]. as organizations look to connect IoT devices, collect critical metrics, visualize data in real time, analyze results and optimize manufacturing processes. The Brookings Institution, 22 February 2012. [2] ”[2]. economy has changed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. The Infor team presented the acquisition opportunity as an opportunity to extend ERP to the value chain, to automated inter-enterprise order management and to sell more Infor solutions. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production and use of biobased products replacing petroleum-based products has the potential to reduce GHG emissions up to 10 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents. The rural unemployment rate has dropped below 6 percent for the first time since 2007, and from 2012-2014, we saw rural child poverty fall by 3 percentage points.”.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Present Information Effectively: Data accumulation & management still remains a key ingredient to a successful Visibility program. Be Near Real-time yet Scalable: A typical Visibility solution interacts with multiple systems to acquire, assimilate, churn and present data in a comprehendible way. December 2012. November 2012.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 13, 2016

Editor’s note: This post originally ran in 2012. Do you have receivers who have a particular problem with that SKU at delivery, and does that present a cost or accessorial reduction opportunity? What you really want are meaningful metrics. What’s Missing in Your Total Landed Cost.Transportfolio.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Speakers from both the sessions presented their views on why and how business partners are critical to IBM success and how working together results into a win-win situation. Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. December 2012.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2017

CB: After working for about 10 years at different high-tech companies as a designer, I felt the need to be my own boss and started my own consulting agency in 2012. Consistency is one of the key metrics we focus on delivering at JDA. SCN: Where did you work prior to JDA? Canada and Europe.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

This should tell us if the supplier values those things our organization does and provide some measure of present competency and direction and investment in future competencies. Cut inventory costs Be it a brick and mortar store or an online business, inventory is always present and it costs money.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2017

CB: After working for about 10 years at different high-tech companies as a designer, I felt the need to be my own boss and started my own consulting agency in 2012. Consistency is one of the key metrics we focus on delivering at JDA. SCN: Where did you work prior to JDA? Canada and Europe.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The following is a timeline of key American Manufacturing Industry Moments & Innovations up to present day. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a hierarchy of metrics developed by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. 2012: The Rise of Robotics Use in Manufacturing.

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EMERGE App

MAY 10, 2020

With EMERGE App the sales process is presented in a logical and sequential manner: quotations, sales orders, purchases, shipment and invoices. trillion in 2012. Benchmark yourself against some metrics. We covered some important metrics here at [link]. Focusing on Price and Not Service. Sitting on Order Fulfilment.

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EMERGE App

MAY 10, 2020

With EMERGE App the sales process is presented in a logical and sequential manner: quotations, sales orders, purchases, shipment and invoices. trillion in 2012. Benchmark yourself against some metrics. We covered some important metrics here at [link]. Focusing on Price and Not Service. Sitting on Order Fulfilment.

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