Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this volatile world, efficient procurement led by a CFO is not the answer. The low Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and the growth below the industry average comes from the lack of network design and organizational alignment between new product development, manufacturing, and procurement. What is the issue? Conclusion.

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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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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

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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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Comparison of Industry Players Within Consumer Goods for the Period of 2012-2021. The focus needs to move from functional metrics to balanced scorecard outcomes. Functional metrics insulate organizations and throw the supply chain out of balance. For example, a “buy plan” for procurement.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. In July 2012 E2open went public on the NASDAQ; and in March 2015, after a series of financial earnings disappointments, Insight Venture Partners funded E2open to become private.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Due to the enhanced visibility of data and metrics across peer groups, sales leads have improved their customer service by walking prospective customers through the operations process and comfortably answering any queries on how success is measured. Overall, MDI provides organizations with key takeaways and measured KPIs.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. We’ve read through some of the best analyst reports and surveys to bring you this procurement fact file containing some of the most interesting findings, statistics and quotes. Click here to download a printable pdf version of the procurement fact file. Procurement.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. a bushel, the highest price since July 2012. 75% of procurement managers and Managing Directors from the EU and UK believe passing on increased raw material costs to customers is appropriate.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The approach involves new procurement methods that promote asset sharing (for example, cars), grounded in new distributed models and infrastructure.” ” Steutermann adds, “It is important not to confuse [sustainability] metrics with the circular economy. ” The Green Supply Chain , 31 July 2012.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 26, 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 primary investments are in networks of limited capabilities based on EDI, and indirect procurement spend management.

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

On the other hand I can reduce my cost by increasing batch sizes in production or MOQ’s in procurement. In her excellent book ‘Supply Chain Metrics that Matter’ (Cecere, L.M., Supply Chain Metrics that Matter, John Wiley & Sons, 2015), Lora Cecere shows how we can reveal the ‘best-practice-frontier’ using so-called ‘orbit charts’.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Now, lets look at different forecast measurement metrics e.g. Mean Forecast Error (MFE) or Bias, Mean absolute Deviation (MAD), Mean Absolute Percentage error (MAPE), Weighted Absolute Percentage error (WMAPE).

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The performance measurement pillar, which is the one used for benchmarking, is essentially a hierarchy of key performance indicators (KPIs), comprising more than 150 metrics organised into two levels. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in May 2012, and has now been revamped and updated with more comprehensive information.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Insuring that each function, including online marketing, store operations and supply chain have common objectives, metrics and aligned rewards for the coming year. Posted by: Navdeep Sidhu | August 13, 2012 5:42 PM.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Example: For a shipper, number of shipments at a 3PL warehouse might be a relevant metric while the 3PL provider may be more interested in the number of shipments for all serviced shippers. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Consistent Business Intelligence - BI metrics can be obtained consistently across the entire business banking on the foundation of single version of master data. Procurement Blog. December 2012.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

She is a global executive with a wealth of experience in leading procurement operations, business outsourcing, transformation and technology across industries. The maturity of an organizations’ procurement and supply chain, its processes and technology are critical to managing the business and organizational risks. ISO, GDPR)?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. IT enablement in areas like Mobile work management, Health and Safety, Metrics monitoring (KPI) etc. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). December 2012.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.) Posted by: Kundan Raj Singh | January 11, 2012 12:01 PM. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

Later in the year 2012, it was further reduced to 3.5% million metric tons annually. Actually, this is not at all recent. If you follow the previous IMO holdings the first reduction came in 2005 by set a limit of 4.5% m/m of Sulphur cap. The decision to make it 0.5% So, this is not sudden. Surcharges passed on to shippers.

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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

JUNE 28, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. A further benefit of integration of these many systems is to allow organizations to effectively report on their sustainability metrics. Posted by Praveen Kumar Agrawal on June 29, 2012 7:13 AM | Permalink.

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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

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Belief in efficient procurement. Alignment Barriers. Mistake #3.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Because one of the major costs in a business, if you take in procurement and cost of goods, is supply chain. If you look back ten years ago, being a good supply chain manager was about understanding the operations, understanding your metrics, keeping a tight grip on the costs—it’s a lot more than that now.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Generalize procurement of materials. Some helpful reports include: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: The Cash-to-Cash Cycle. Published by Supply Chain Insights in November 2012. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on the Pharmaceutical Industry. Published by Supply Chain Insights in December 2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs. From interviews, I believe that it was a combination of leadership and metrics alignment. The result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

SAP purchased Ariba in 2012 for 4.2B$, and the company has been slow to actualize the asset and drive incremental revenue. The Ariba infrastructure is so heavily entrenched in indirect procurement processes that it is hard to adapt to the solution to manage direct materials in the supply chain. I am not surprised.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. On the federal government front, President Obama signed an Executive Order Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts on September 25, 2012.

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ivalua

AUGUST 14, 2019

Much has been made in 2019 about the gap between the findings of procurement self-assessments and where each organization stands when they are evaluated against their peers using objective measures. Spend under management has been effectively flat since 2012, with procurement organizations averaging 63.2% in 2018 (a modest 8.7%

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