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I laugh when business leaders tell me that they are going to replace their current supplychain planning technologies with “AI.” Each supplychain planning technology at the end of 2024, went through disruption–change in CEO, business model shift, layoffs, re-platforming and acquisitions.
Today, I am proud to launch the SupplyChain Index. It is my hope that the readers of this blog will take time to either join us today to listen to the launch of the SupplyChain Index on our webinar or listen to the replay. (We The SupplyChain Index has been two years in the making.
You are pissy and opinionated in this world of supplychain blandness. The term supplychain excellence is easier to say than define. I have been trying to define it as a supplychain analyst for over fifteen years. I had spent the last two decades in the technology market and I wanted to celebrate success.
Today, we published The SupplyChains to Admire for 2023. Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. I admit it.
Life for the supplychain leader is more complex. We are living in a world of rich supplychain case studies. Each day, the Wall Street Journal features a supplychain failure as front-page news. Traditional processes accelerate the bullwhip impact leaving leaders chained and forced into reactive behavior.
As I wrote, I reflected on the Generative AI hype cycle in the supplychain market and the contribution to noise. I questioned in this time of uncertainty if supplychain leaders will value data-driven content. This is despite investment in people and technology. Lack of Clarity on SupplyChain Excellence.
For the past five years, the team at SupplyChain Insights identified SupplyChains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). About the SupplyChains to Admire Methodology.
On September 9–11, 2014, 110 supplychain visionaries will gather in the desert at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona to think differently and define the future of supplychain. Supplychain teams are being asked to do more with less. Automation of SupplyChain Execution.
Last week was the SupplyChain Insights Global Summit. 110 supplychain leaders attended. In preparation for the summit, we readied the final report of the work on translating balance sheet results into a methodology to judge SupplyChain Excellence. A big bang technology focus has not worked.
That’s why staying on top of the latest supplychain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supplychain planning.
Over the course of the last two years, we at SupplyChain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supplychain improvement. We named it the SupplyChain Index. We have found that supplychainmetrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the SupplyChain Index.
SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supplychains.” I am a nomad, searching for a good definition of supplychain excellence. It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014.
Supplychain excellence. The answer makes or breaks a supplychain leader’s career and defines corporate value. When we look at the relative progress of industries within the Technology Value Networks in Table 1, you see a lot of red. If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric.
I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the SupplyChain Index work. He is trying to figure out the answer to these questions: What defines supplychain excellence? Who has done it best?
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For the past five years, the team at SupplyChain Insights identified SupplyChains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). About the SupplyChains to Admire Methodology.
As a start-up company in the garage, Amazon SupplyChain has made a giant leap that revolutionized many aspects of overall supplychain management. The article provides many examples about how Bezos manages various business issues and many of them are supplychain management related.
by Bill DuBois The life sciences supplychain starts with a miracle. Everything we talk about in supplychain starts with discovering that product you can market and sell. The article reminds us of what Merck R&D head Roger Perlmutter said about the subject back in 2013. “We One in twenty. Data first.
I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” At the time, the popular belief was that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies would build multi-tier capabilities. Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supplychain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces.
HighJump Software Announces New Partnership With NetSuite. UPS App For iPad Advances Suite Of Customer Technology Offerings. Chainalytics Creates New Metrics for Demand Planning Consortium. This week, both Descartes and HighJump Software announced agreements with NetSuite.
The average SupplyChain management professional measures their SupplyChain by reviewing cost reduction. Is cost reduction all that there is in measuring SupplyChain performance? 3 Key Metrics for Measuring SupplyChain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. Isn’t time important?
I have worked for Gartner Group, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and now my own company, SupplyChain Insights. I have now been an industry analyst in the supplychain management space for ten years. This month, I am proud that the SupplyChain Insights team will announce the SupplyChain Index.
Many companies talk about SupplyChain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supplychain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supplychain excellence to fitness. He felt that supplychain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.
“We live in a world where supplychains, not companies, compete for market dominance. But companies often have diverging incentives and interests from their supplychain partners, so when they independently strive to optimize their individual objectives, the expected result can be compromised. ”. What Is Value?
Over the last two decades the company successfully leveraged global scale to define supplychain leadership. With 12,000 supplychain employees operating in 80 countries with 2400 storage facilities, supplychain excellence and innovation are the foundation of corporate performance. BASF creates chemistry.
Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supplychain. At the SupplyChain insights Global Summit , Nick shared his story on driving demand-based improvements. Understanding the Lubricant SupplyChain.
I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. For most companies today there is great room for improvement in the supplychain. Companies want a supplychain that is more aligned and agile. Current State of SupplyChains. It is a slow week. It is tedious. But, guess what?
We founded SupplyChain Insights on February 9th, 2012. SupplyChain Insights is a true bootstrap startup. We also built a database of twenty years of supplychain financial ratios that we mine daily for companies to understand where they are on the SupplyChain Effective Frontier against their peer group.
by Alexa Cheater From designing, sourcing and manufacturing, to distribution and consumption, your supplychain is at the heart of your customer satisfaction levels. trillion in cash according to a 2013 US Working Capital Survey. The changes you make as an inventory manager have a ripple effect on other supplychain functions.
As an analyst in the supplychain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supplychain innovation. History of Terra Technology.
In the digital world, traditional broad-brush marketing programs become less effective, but have residual effects on the supplychain of higher demand error and increased complexity. This table is from our SupplyChains to Admire analysis, and the Index represents improvement. What Is Risk? What Are the Risk Drivers?
The legacy solutions from ten years ago are more expensive and both the traditional software licence model and the consulting model are incented to sell the MOST EXPENSIVE, not the BEST, systems. IT spending is tight, market growth is slowing, and most technology vendors are deploying very sales-driven, opportunistic strategies.
This month, the SupplyChain Insights team will announce the SupplyChain Index. The SupplyChain Index is a formulaic representation of supplychain excellence based on market valuations. Based on inquiry, we do this analysis free of charge for members of our SupplyChain Insights Community.
by CJ Wehlage A few years ago, Kevin O’Marah said Gartner’s Top 25 SupplyChains was getting increasingly boring. Gartner’s Top 25 SupplyChains has become like watching Survivor, the reality TV show that places people on a remote location, where they outwit, outplay and outlast the others. Nokia was tops at 46%.
In the process of compiling the SupplyChains to Admire report for last year’s SupplyChain Insights Global Summit , the research team at SupplyChain Insights calculated the rate of supplychain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a SupplyChain Operating Network”.
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Here’s the supplychain conferences we love and will be attending. Gartner SupplyChain Executive Conference. Kinaxis is pleased to be a Premier Sponsor and participate in panel discussion of the 2014 EMEA Gartner SupplyChain Executive Conference. SupplyChain Insights Global Summit.
Supplychain professionals understand that. As Lora Cecere , founder of SupplyChain Insights, has insisted for a long time, “The supplychain IS Business, not a department within a business.”[2] 2] So, what lies ahead for supplychains in 2024? Freelance writer Bridget McCrea thinks so.
Organizations continue to look for areas of opportunity and inspiration on the quest to improve the operational efficiency of their supplychain. While technology capabilities are plentiful, for many, it’s not immediately obvious where one should start. Today we see RFID, GPS, OCR, barcode technology as being pervasive.
Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supplychain processes. In the words of a supplychain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supplychain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.
However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. Despite the deployment of what is considered to be the most mature technologies by the organization, the most important processes–allocation and Available to Promise (ATP)–are largely manual. One of the most advanced teams was a division of DuPont. (At Measure it.
This is the third birthday of the SupplyChain Shaman. When I went to Altimeter group, my friends Charlene Li and Jeremiah Owyang said that I should be like a “shaman” and help supplychain leaders embrace new technologies. So, tonight, I also toast the first year of SupplyChain Insights.
Two years at Gartner Group , six years at AMR Research (now Gartner), two years at Altimeter Group and three years as the founder of SupplyChain Insights. Over this period, I have watched the acceptance of cloud-based supplychain solutions evolve. Users of Software as a Service solutions have higher satisfaction rates.
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