Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The composite of metrics includes growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital.) We group companies by NAICS codes to study year-over-progress at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Value, i.e. Price to Tangible Book Value (PTBV). Inventory Turns. Performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. We used the period of 2006 to 2012 to build the model and we used the formula to attempt to predict 2013. And, recently, Procter & Gamble is more focused on improving inventory turns. I shake my head. What did we learn?

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 9, 2014

She also writes the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman , and she published a book called Bricks Matter in 2012. In a 2013 pos t on the blog site for her book, Lora highlighted seven demand management mistakes of the last decade. [M]ost Lora is one of our discipline’s leading thinkers, and I am a big fan of hers.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 16, 2013

Inventory mismanagement. Ingrained attitudes can block better inventory practices. Depending on which corporate silo you belong to, inventory can be a liability, an asset, or something in between. How do supply chain (SC) professionals overcome these biases and implement optimal inventory management solutions?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

As I closed the book, and prepared to go to bed, my mind raced. I read Chapter 17 in the book on the difference in productivity impact of the two industrial revolutions many, many times. was presented in 2013. Gordon to the far east and digested 700 pages of economic analysis while enjoying the sun. Admittedly, I am a geek.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement. Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2013

This morning, I woke to receive this email in my inbox: Good morning Lora, I have read with pleasure the insightful report related to SC 2020 (race for Supply Chain – April 2013). For more on these differences, reference the book that I co-authored, Bricks Matter. I love hearing from blog readers. I have a question related to 2020.

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crisp

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A bittersweet need for data Founded in 2013, Honey Mama’s bars sparked fanfare at the Portland State Farmers Market in Oregon. At this time – with a need for visibility into their expanding supply chain – sales and inventory insights were more necessary than ever. Book a demo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The genesis started with the writing of the book Bricks Matter. I wanted the book to be a critical look at what we have accomplished as supply chain professionals during that 30-year period. Sadly, while writing the book, I found that this was not the case. The Supply Chain Index has been two years in the making.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. 19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

March 2013 was the coldest in decades for much of Europe and the eastern United States. Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the Swedish apparel giant, reported lower like-for-like sales in the first quarter of 2013 and attributed the fall to the unusually cold weather. He is co-author of the recently published book Strategy is Digital.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2013

This back-to-the-basics approach is what defines a rational pricing strategy, which involves understanding demand, customers’ willingness to pay, available inventory and overall market conditions. It’s Business 101: when demand is robust, price aggressively; when demand is low, you need competitive pricing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I cavalierly penned a chapter on the evolution of supply chain thinking from cost to value. I found this out the hard way when Keith Harrison , contributor to the Forward of the book, asked me to define what I meant by ”value.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Inventory Turns (15%) (based on 2014 results). Growth 10% (Year-over-Year comparison of 2013 versus 2014). The foundation to drive meaningful improvement is reliability in driving results at the intersection of costs, inventory and customer service. Analyst rating 25% (Gartner analysts rank the companies on the list.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In this report, we track the progress on balance sheet performance of companies by peer group and chart the relative improvement for the period of 2006-2013. When I tried to explain the issues with over forecasting on waste, and inventory obsolescence, he was dismissive. This work has taken us two years to finish.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Simon Sinek’s popularised finding meaning in his 2011 book and Ted Talk ‘ Start With Why ’. million Youtube views and millions of books sold he obviously hit a nerve. Martin Seligman, pioneer of the positive psychology movement, writes in his 2002 book ‘Authentic happiness’, that there are three levels of happiness.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Price to Tangible Book Value. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . We eliminate the lower 1/3 of companies for the period from consideration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Over the past two years, P&G made impressive gains in operating margin and inventory turns, but the company failed to equal the ROIC test for asset utilization. New Bookends.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

In recent quarters, Target has struggled with inventory shortfalls as it tried to cater to online and in-store shoppers at the same time. The Wall Street Journal also reported on this story: Target is racing to modernize its supply chain operations to handle all these jobs as it addresses problems that cropped up during the transition.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He says it’s the antiquated booking system that’s gumming up the works. ” According to Goh, “The question remains to define what the optimal mix of foldable and regular containers carriers should maintain in their inventory is.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Back in June 2009, I wrote the following in a post titled Amazon.com: A Customer-Centric 3PL : “You won’t find Amazon.com on any ‘Top 25 3PLs’ list, but the company is a leading 3PL in my book.” Fast forward to today and it’s clear that Amazon is putting the pieces together to become a dominant logistics service provider.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. In July 2013 E2open announced it acquired supply chain vendor icon-scm , and in June 2014 E2open announced its acquisition of SERUS Corporation, a “cloud-based manufacturing and product management provider.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

The good news is that leading practices in supply chain risk management are well documented in various books and publications , and new software applications are emerging to help companies manage this process. Simply put, many companies are still falling short on supply chain risk management , and they continue to pay the price.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He became a director at that point, working with sales planning, inventory planning, and financial planning, and pulling together the Sales and Operations Planning team, as well as introducing new products and eliminating obsolescence. In 2013 housing began to come back, and survived. Today, we are at 5.5M

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KEPLER Consulting

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Sources: 1: Global Survey, Mc Kinsey, 2010/ 2: Supply Chain Impact Survey, Cap Gemini, 2013/ 3: Future of Supply Chain, SCM World, 2016. #2 Sources: 1: Future of Supply Chain, SCM World, 2016 /2: Global Supply Chain Survey, PwC, 2013 / 3: Supply Chain Impact Survey, Cap Gemini, 2013. #3 FLEXIBILITY. REACTIVITY. COORDINATION.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

million since its founding in 2013. Although the company launched with a marketplace where shippers could book trucks directly, Transfix gets a growing share of its revenue from managing transportation for large companies [emphasis mine], Mr. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal : Transfix has raised a total of $78.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

I have done this report twice before–once in 2012 and again in 2013. In addition, 85% of the vendors in the multi-tier inventory optimization market that I wrote about in 1995, are now part of larger platforms. I will watch the comments on this new one closely to see how to improve the report. What Is New? It is a rewrite.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here we help you answer these questions with an overview of the B2B landscape, including: How B2B marketplaces work The pros and cons of B2B marketplaces The range of types of B2B marketplace The top B2B marketplaces around the world Read more: Try the eCommerce inventory management software that unleashes your growth What are B2B marketplaces?

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The difference between BlackBerry in 2007— with a net worth of US $40B and BlackBerry in 2013—willing to be sold for a measly a tenth of its 2007 figure—has a lot to do with a failure to identify and deal with its competitors in the correct way. When it began in the late 90s, Amazon was exclusively selling books. Learn from Amazon.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 14, 2020

I have written two books on pharmaceutical and healthcare distribution (Handfield, 2012; 2013), and have highlighted a number of structural issues with healthcare distribution that make it problematic for distributors to house finished goods inventory buffers or at point of care.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. Inventory piles up and revenues gaps are closed by pushing product into the market.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Online freight marketplaces allow shippers to instantly compare the cost of traditional truck vs rail freight, and book with a button click. Ultimately this will protect them against stock outs, allow them to reduce their inventory, improve their ROIC, lower shipping costs, and streamline their transition to e-commerce. Holcomb, Dept.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

In 2013 Nokia took full ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, buying the other half of the venture from Siemens, and 2014 sold its handset business to Microsoft. Which book has inspired you the most and why? “I I recently picked up a re-edited version of the old book, Gemba Kaizen, by Masaaki Imai.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We further noted that the upcoming 2011 holiday buying season would once again drive home the premise that MCO and responsive supply chain inventory management are often the best complement to effective multi-channel and online commerce plans. The challenges related to this situation are being addressed." A similar pattern occurred.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I’ve literally seen KPI “packs” the size of phone books, and even KPI sets circulated as a monthly magazine… that no one reads. Inventory stock turns in Days. If you’d like to read more about Supply Chain KPIs, you can download (free) a chapter from one of our Best Selling Books on the topic. Inventory management.

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Kinaxis

MAY 9, 2016

The result being higher profit margins, something Apple could use to leverage exclusivity agreements (such as booking out UPS and DHL shipment capacities). The voting categories are Financial (ROA, Revenue, Inventory Turns), and Voting (Peer and Analyst). Inventory turns, mostly, will follow Revenue. P&G = Control Tower.

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