2012 Metrics Shipping 
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 28, 2020
When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. The problem is that the manufacturing lines are 125% utilized, and there is an ongoing struggle to produce tonnage, much less ship the right product from the production lines to customers based on orders. My focus was simple.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 29, 2013
Which supply chain metrics correlate to market capitalization by Morningstar sector? In 2012, supply chain process evolution was thirty years old, and I wanted to use the book, Bricks Matter, as a litmus test to tell the story of success. Which companies have made year-over-year improvements? Results of the Supply Chain Index.
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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. Each faces four years of deterioration on this important supply chain metric. Another example is the work that we are doing on collaborative shipping.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 21, 2014
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. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. Service level is our most important metric.
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.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012.
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). And finally, UPS raised a red flag by lowering its full-year EPS expectations.
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