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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

Compared to peer group performance for 2013-2023, 59% of the Gartner Top 25 score below their peer group on average revenue growth, 41% below inventory turns, and 41% below their sector on invested capital. The data outcome is open source and can be used to improve project outcomes. Before we get started, let’s agree.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Downsizing inventories over the past decade crippled the response.” 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. Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods.

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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

This data source synchronizes corporate reporting across global markets while tracking restatements, name changes, and currency shifts.) The second part of the story is that inventory turns for Lenovo are 10.8, Ranking at #13, PepsiCo outperforms on inventory turns, but performance is declining. We purchase data from Y charts.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Shaman

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? We placed them in the industry that they were the most like, e.g., the primary source of revenue. There are a lot of misconceptions about inventory. Inventory is one of two primary buffers in the supply chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 3-7, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… UPS Freight Announces 2013 Rate Adjustment. Cass Freight Index Report for May 2013. Amazon plans big expansion of online grocery business: sources ( Reuters ). Rates have still remained quite flat as they have most of 2013. Just like political campaigns, the budget planning process never ends.

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Supply chain inventory optimization – Beyond the analytics

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater From designing, sourcing and manufacturing, to distribution and consumption, your supply chain is at the heart of your customer satisfaction levels. The equivalent of 7% of America’s GDP is tied up in inventory, and accounts receivable and payable. trillion in cash according to a 2013 US Working Capital Survey.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas. industrial economy drove revenue and operating profit below expectations [in Q2 2013],” said the company in the press release. “In