Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Cass Freight Index Report – January 2013. 2013 is off to a slow start for freight shipments, according to the Cass Freight Index Report for January. Here is an excerpt: Both shipment volume and total freight payments declined significantly from December [2012] to January [2013], as the economy slowed to a near stall.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 The process involves an analysis of large amounts of information and interviews with executives from numerous warehouse automation providers; and concludes with the publication of ARC’s Warehouse Automation & Control Market Research Study. billion in 2019. Well, I am saying it.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 19, 2013

I learned today that one of the articles I published with colleagues from the University of Tennessee, Oxford University, and Manchester University was cited for the 2013 Emerald citation of Excellence award. As papers need at least three years to accumulate citation data, the 2013 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2009.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

They gave lip service to the need for IT standardization, but ran their process on a custom built model that enabled reverse bill of material, and profitability analysis. They were ahead of their time on simulation analysis and cross-functional orchestration.). In 2022, I frequently ask companies to draw their river of demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. As a research leader at AMR Research when I voiced the concern for a more rigorous peer group analysis in prior meetings, I hoped for a better outcome.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We know that this is not perfect; but it is the best that we could do, and we think that it is a fairer comparison than putting all companies in a spreadsheet and shaking them up without any consideration for peer group analysis. What did you learn in the analysis? How did you select the final list of fifteen companies ?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

It will be launched during a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a series of reports that will run in our May newsletter and throughout the summer. Based on inquiry, we do this analysis free of charge for members of our Supply Chain Insights Community.). This analysis has been fun and insightful. How will we use it?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2017

We started the analysis to guide our own research and started sharing it with the industry in 2013. This analysis is a study of improvement, value and performance of companies against an industry peer group. What can we learn from the analysis? The 2017 Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners. Stay tuned.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 18, 2013

on August 12, 2013. The majority of companies are recognizing the growing need for investments in new technology, with about 60 percent of the respondents planning to invest in big data analysis tools within the next five years. on August 12, 2013. 1. Customer expectations. New technology.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We know that this is not perfect; but it is the best that we could do, and we think that it is a fairer comparison than putting all companies in a spreadsheet and shaking them up without any consideration for peer group analysis. How did you select the final list of fifteen companies ?

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 1, 2020

Catastrophes like the fire in a Bangladeshi factory that killed over 100 workers, or the factory collapse in 2013 that killed over 1100 workers, are not only awful for the people involved, but can seriously impact the supply chain. Just like in textiles, many of the people making the clothes live in impoverished countries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

This table is from our Supply Chains to Admire analysis, and the Index represents improvement. While most leaders early to the subject think of risk as mitigation of events (in Figure 1 we share the most disruptive events from the period of 2013-2018), event mitigation is the easy part of risk management.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 9, 2013

It will be launched on a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a report that will run in our May newsletter. Based on inquiry, we do this analysis free of charge for members of our Supply Chain Insights Community. Each time that we run a new analysis, we learn more. This analysis has been fun and insightful.

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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The report also contains an analysis of three selected sectors (retail, construction and pharmaceutical) and additional case studies, including a case study on the 2013 Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh. More information can be found on the homepage of Raconteur’s Supply Chain 2015 report.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And then Oliver Wiliamson came along later and presented Transaction Cost Analysis – which states that the risk of partner opportunism limits the effectiveness of relational governance in exchange relationships.

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SCM Research

MAY 5, 2013

Nobel laureates rarely publish articles in journals within the supply chain arena. & Smith, V. Using Laboratory Experiments in Logistics and Supply Chain Research. Journal of Business Logistics, 34 (1), 6-14 DOI: 10.1111/jbl.12006. Methodology Article Award Experiment Supply Chain Management'

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 12, 2020

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. ”).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

While 72% have a value analysis team, they have not matured to assess value. Published by Supply Chain Insights in January 2013. Published by Supply Chain Insights in January 2013. Published by Supply Chain Insights in February 2013. . . These processes are still in their infancy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. Performance of High Tech and Electronics Supply Chains for the Periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. Third Phase: 2013-future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

To do the analysis, we cross tabbed multiple studies that we completed in 2013 and 2014 and then enriched the data with our financial ratio data base. This analysis is based on both performance and improvement of companies within their peer group on growth, Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), Operating Margin and Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. We find that this is true of too few companies.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

According to a recent report from Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates, the 3pl industry is expected to see even more growth in the coming years than it saw from 2010-2013. percent in 2010-2013. percent from 2013-2016. Here are the details. The growth of the U.S. third party logistics industry was at a healthy 4.5

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 21, 2013

This started in the mid-1950s, with primarily descriptive analytics and reporting activity, using structured internal data analysis. Tom Davenport also discussed the evolution of analytics, beginning with Analytics 1.0. Small teams were secreted away in backrooms where they did their work. The purpose was for internal decision support.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 9, 2014

In a 2013 pos t on the blog site for her book, Lora highlighted seven demand management mistakes of the last decade. But let me also thank Lora Cecere for her blunt analysis. Yes , in the sense that Lora’s industry analysis is very thorough. Lora is one of our discipline’s leading thinkers, and I am a big fan of hers.

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Tompkins Blog

JANUARY 15, 2014

Below are three key areas that will assist you with risk analysis. As a starting point, business leaders need to understand the magnitude of each risk, the country-specific risks, and what they can do to mitigate and respond to crises. How Great is the Risk?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

I am looking at the data for 2000-2013 for several reasons. I define the resiliency measurement as the tightness of the pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2000-2013. For more on our analysis of resiliency, please refer to our recent report. Why is this important?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Supply Chain Index Rankings for 2006-2013. As we can see in Figure 2, the impact of Campbells aggressive supply chain projects in 2012-2013, in conjunction with some changes in the business, as Dave predicted, had a deleterious impact on Campbells rankings on the Supply Chain Index. Conclusion: Figure 2.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2013

Con-way Freight Announces 2013 General Rate Increase. Here’s some analysis from the press release: The 1.2% Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (June 10-14, 2013) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Infor Delivers Automotive Innovation Throughout The Value Chain. Google finalizing $1.3

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Kinaxis

APRIL 4, 2019

The article reminds us of what Merck R&D head Roger Perlmutter said about the subject back in 2013. “We That way we can get on with effective and efficient analysis to determine what story the data is telling us. Imagine knowing so little about your customer, in this case, the human body.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

ISO/IEC 27001:2013. The ISO/IEC 27001:2013 regulation is a flexible risk-based approach that covers information security. Regardless of the size of your enterprise, establish and document risk analysis, processes, procedures, and policies. ii) Document internal control procedures.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

So far in our analysis, ROA has only correlated in the chemical industry; for the rest, the better correlation has been ROIC (Return on Invested Capital). At that time we will launch all 36 equations for each Morningstar sector, including the analysis of industry sector performance, and let you decide. Over-dependency on ROA.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 13, 2022

This research has been done twice, covering most years between 2013 and 2018 using all dry van truckload shipments managed by TMC that moved 250 or more miles. Root Cause Analysis and Impact of Unplanned Procurement on Truckload Transportation Costs,” by Nishitha Aemireddy and Xiyang Yuan, MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Growth 10% (Year-over-Year comparison of 2013 versus 2014). It is a limited analysis of large companies. It is for this reason, that we are hard at work on the analysis of the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series of reports. These reports are a deep analysis of an industry. I hang my head in embarrassment.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

But as I wrote back in April 2013 , “If you look closely, Amazon’s real advantage comes from its logistics assets — the 89 distribution centers it [had at the time], including 20 opened [in 2012], with more scheduled to open in the months ahead. Adrian’s Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2013. Siri” for enterprise apps.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I’m writing to share an exciting new report released today entitled “ An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. According to An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. Between 2013 and 2014, the industry’s total employment contributions increased by 220,000 jobs to support a total of 4.22 percent from 2013 to 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. We studied this pre and post-recession.

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