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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. The Effective Frontier: Balanced Scorecard Developed Through the Work with Arizona State. During the presentation, I squirmed uncomfortably in my seat.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. There are three reasons why: Vertical excellence—having the best manufacturing, procurement or transportation function—has not worked. ” Yes, I said.

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Supply chain innovation through the Nexus of Forces

ivalua

,” I talked about Gartner’s first-day focus at their Supply Chain Executive Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

Dave will be speaking on his journey along with other supply chain leaders at the Supply Chain Insight sGlobal Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 10th and 11th. These interviews of supply chain leaders will be collated into our fourth book on supply chain excellencewhich will publish at ourconference in September 2015.

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Time for a Mea Culpa?

Supply Chain Shaman

Because he had reduced his buffers—both inventory and manufacturing—and had built a push-based supply chain using a forecasted demand signal, he was failing in many markets. Instead, you book the biggest conference room in the building and invite a cross-functional team to review what happened in 2013.

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2015 Truckload Contract Rates Rise, as Spot Rates Fall

DAT Solutions

Spot market rates were higher in 2015 than in 2013, the most recent "normal" year. Load volume in 2015 was on par with 2013 , due entirely to heavier demand in the first half of the year. 2015 Looks Like 2013, but With More Trucks. The result: 2015 looked a lot more like 2013 on the spot market, but with more trucks.

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Which Metrics Matter? Interview with Philippe Lambotte

Supply Chain Shaman

We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. Soluble coffee manufacturing is hugely asset intensive with important capital expenditure plant infrastructure.

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