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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

turns in 2013. Kellogg posted 19% margin in 2013 and 6.96 turns in 2013 but fell to 11% margin and 6.05 Orbit Charts for Kimberly-Clark and Kellogg for 2013-2022 A good friend of mine, asked, “Isn’t this the impact of the pandemic.” This work completed in 2013 defined the Supply Chains to Admire.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire 2017 Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric. While we agree that each of these companies are leaders with significant contributions to the industry, we do not find these companies outperforming when compared against their peer groups on a balanced portfolio of metrics. If the arrow is green, progress was made.

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The top 25 supply chains and Survivor

Kinaxis

Gartner Analysts Top 10 – 2017. Peers Top 10 – 2017. Microsoft acquired them in 2013, the company then laid off 12,500 people in 2014, then acquired Alcatel Lucent only to sell off a business unit to Foxconn. In this area, Gartner should push the metrics benchmark. Once again – Peer vs Gartner. Cisco Systems.

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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service. This, my friends, is why we need to get back to CORE supply chain metrics when measuring the Top 25.

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. eft, 1 February 2013. [6] 9] Trevor Miles, “ Let’s be clear: Digitization is not the same as Digital Transformation ,” Kinaxis Blog, 8 December 2017. But companies that win aren’t the ones with the most data.

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Gartner: CSR is table stakes for supply chain leadership

EcoVadis

That spoke volumes to the performance value of CSR in the supply chain, but what speaks even louder is that this year, 4 of the top 5 companies in the 2017 ranking received a perfect 10 out of 10 score in the CSR category. Last year, Gartner added corporate social responsibility (CSR) for the first time.

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