Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) My takeaway? The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Organizational alignment in manufacturing organizations is worse between operations and finance teams today than in 2013. I give you this evidence in this blog.).

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Talking Logistics

MAY 31, 2013

NAFTA Trade in March 2013. The bottom line is that this announcement points to a big reality in the market: the development and testing of “self-driving” vehicles is progressing very quickly, and while industry executives expect fully-autonomous vehicles to be widely available by 2025, I’m betting it will happen sooner.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 17, 2013

Chainalytics Creates New Metrics for Demand Planning Consortium. In the enterprise software world, Netsuite is becoming the Pitbull of the industry, with various supply chain and logistics software vendors forming partnerships with the company to help expand their presence in the small and midsize business (SMB) market. We’re toast.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

However, in the writing of the recent report on the Household Products and Beauty industries, my observation is that companies are stuck in neutral and going backwards. Who is performing the best in this industry? The industry as a whole struggled. As an analyst, I get to watch and observe industry progress. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We built peer groups based on like industries. The NAICS designation was developed by the US Federal Government to characterize groups of companies within an industry. If the company had multiple divisions crossing over many industries, where did you place them? Which companies were considered in the study?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

As I highlighted in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2013 , tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the preferred computing platform for business professionals, which is why technology providers are designing and optimizing their applications for these devices. Song of the Week: “Miracle Mile” by Cold War Kids.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2017

When we look at the relative progress of industries within the Technology Value Networks in Table 1, you see a lot of red. The first number in a cell represents the average value for a specific industry for 2010-2016, and the percentage on the second line is a comparison of the average for 2010 when compared to 2016.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2024

Under pressure to reduce injuries and deaths from crashes involving heavy trucks, FMCSA in August 2023 notified the trucking industry that it would entertain requests to waive agency decisions made in 2018 and 2020 that ruled federal hours-of-service rules (HOS) preempt MRB laws in California and Washington, respectively, for interstate trucking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. I believed that supply chain excellence could not be generalized from industry to industry. I wanted to better understand which metrics truly mattered. Definitions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

Instead, what I observed when I looked at the data, was that most companies that I had worked with (in my role as an industry analyst, I had worked with over 300) were going backwards on margin and inventory turns. As an industry analyst, in prior roles I had never had access to this data. “Ugh,” I said.

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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. We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The result? The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

He is an industrial engineer with a diploma in transportation and logistics from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven. Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The This trend was characteristic of the chemical industry. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

These values are then rolled up into a score where all of the companies of the Fortune 500 are stack-ranked across industries. This data is then shared with Gartner’s industry analysts, and the analysts vote on which companies they think exemplify supply chain excellence. The intent was good. The approach is too simplistic.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We built peer groups based on like industries. If the company had multiple divisions crossing over many industries, where did you place them? We placed them in the industry that they were the most like, e.g., the primary source of revenue. Which companies were considered in the study? We tried to use NAICS code designations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

It seems like yesterday that I transitioned to become an industry analyst. I have now been an industry analyst in the supply chain management space for ten years. 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.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 6, 2013

The success of the third-party logistics industry is evident in the generally high marks given to 3PLs by respondents to a survey as part of the 2013 17th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, which identifies trends and explores how both 3PLs and shippers are using these relationships to improve and enhance their businesses and supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Here are some of the quotes from the workshop I led yesterday that helped me to better understand the industry: “A process born out of chaos is chaos. In the evolution of supply chain excellence over the last decade, the gap in core capabilities to drive supply chain excellence has grown between healthcare suppliers and other industries.

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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. Aligned Metrics. Supply Chain Design.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 2, 2024

Supply Chain Trends Matthew Lekstutis , CEO of SGS Maine Pointe, writes, “While predictions are as volatile as the future they predict, trends are often more reliable, and preparations for those trends are well within the abilities of every company in every industry. eft, 1 February 2013. [3] billion [in 2022].”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Recessionary environments cause disruptions in the manufacturing industry around the globe, leading to long lead times, shortages, rising prices, and complications in transportation lines. Another area where AI can help retailers increase profitability and reduce their environmental impact is reducing waste in the grocery industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Growth 10% (Year-over-Year comparison of 2013 versus 2014). Opinion makes up 50% of the rating; and in the ranking system, company comparisons are against each other with little consideration of industry drivers. Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Why Do I Think This? .

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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. I am searching for something that can be meaningful across industries and across company sizes. We used the period of 2006 to 2012 to build the model and we used the formula to attempt to predict 2013. I shake my head.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. Will your UPS store or Third-party Logistics (3PL) provider, through printing on-demand, become the new provider of parts for industrial equipment?

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

List of Top 10 Supply Chain Analytics Books 1) Supply Chain Metrics that Matter (Wiley Corporate F&A) 1st Edition This book offers an in-depth guide to understanding the link between corporate financials and supply chain maturity, evaluating the progress of over a hundred companies from 2006-2013. 8) Supply Chain 4.0:

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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. To understand supply chain excellence, we have been studying pattern recognition for industry peer groups at the intersection of the metrics in the Supply Chain Effective Frontier of growth, profitability, cycles and complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The third industrial revolution was much shorter and smaller in impact. I read Chapter 17 in the book on the difference in productivity impact of the two industrial revolutions many, many times. Gordon’s reason for the difference in impact of the two industrial revolutions? ” The vision of industry 4.0

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Kinaxis

APRIL 4, 2019

Is there a more challenging industry than life sciences? The article reminds us of what Merck R&D head Roger Perlmutter said about the subject back in 2013. “We by Bill DuBois The life sciences supply chain starts with a miracle. One in twenty. A rate that hasn’t increased in over a decade. Will we see more miracles?

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. I find it more objective because it is broken down by industry. However, they seem to fall under the conglomerate issue, where multiple business units may skew the summary metrics.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 9, 2017

Consider that Samsung has consumer electronics, visual display, semiconductor, heavy industry and biotech divisions. 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.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Background We''ve previously covered supply chain issues of the world''s leading companies including Amazon in the article " How world''s leading companies manage supply chain ?" ( click here and scroll down to General Merchandise Retailing Industry ). Anyway, we feel there are something missing.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.” Be Sociable, Share!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Early 2012 marked the end of the third decade and 2013 finds us into the fourth. Due to improvements in connectivity, 90% of industries have made improvements in productivity (revenue/employee). Due to improvements in connectivity, 90% of industries have made improvements in productivity (revenue/employee). Complexity has Grown.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Supply Chain Excellence as defined by a methodology whereall companies are put into a spreadsheet and compared across industries is meaningless. In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. Conclusion: Figure 2.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Instead, you book the biggest conference room in the building and invite a cross-functional team to review what happened in 2013. You just do not see the patterns of the interrelationships of metrics in an Excel spreadsheet. It is a slow week.

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