Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the discrete industries, we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. For each metric was show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

2014 was not a good year for the western ports. In contrast, Kinaxis, a close competitor to E2open, went pubic in 2014 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He advised that it will take an average of three additional weeks for container unloading for the west coast ports throughout 2015. Here at home, things are busy.

Long Beach 150

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Supply Chain Insights

MARCH 16, 2015

Nine out of ten companies are stuck: unable to make progress on a portfolio of supply chain metrics. The simulation game is tied to the work we are doing with Arizona State University’s Operations Research group on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. One focus to create content for supply chain visionaries. We want to help.

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Kinaxis

MAY 21, 2015

by CJ Wehlage On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. I would have preferred adding and changing the metrics to rank the companies rather that a category to remove two. I love the new Gartner Supply Chain Benchmarking model. Almost a year later, that was 100% correct.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 3, 2014

New benchmarks for excellence. While reliable service and low prices are still important, these metrics have become prerequisites for commercial success. Now the differentiators are more strategic: benchmarking, innovation, and network modeling, for example. Here are some highlights from his talk. Big Data’s big impact.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS. With the evolution of big data analytics, these Supply Chain Operating Network architectures are evolving: prescriptive and cognitive analytics enhanced by more advanced visualization and benchmarking.

Supply Chain Network Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Instead, they are standalone marketplace offerings solving one of four business problems: supply chain multi-tier visibility, inter-enterprise systems of record, benchmark analytics, and delivering collaborative workflows. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. I have never been in Africa.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

All KPIS have metrics to measure. As an example, our shipper customers who come to Cerasis for better and more efficient transportation management , meet with our account managers to review their shipping activity and use our analytics within our TMS to set new benchmarks and update KPIs so the shipper is continuously improving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. 3) Benchmark Data and Early Alerting. Figure 3: Current State.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The United Nations University estimated that the total amount of e-waste generated in 2014 was 41.8 million metric tonnes (Mt) and predicted an increase to 50 million Mt of e-waste in 2018 ( United Nations University 2014 ). The list can be continued with Cisco, achieving recycling of circuit boards with rates up to 99.5

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

RALEIGH, NC, April 15, 2014 — Is it important to connect your supply chain strategy with your business strategy? Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium is the premier source for supply chain benchmarking and best practices knowledge. According to a recent survey by Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium, nearly 80 percent of participants agree.

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

Using Orbit Charts to Benchmark EBIT versus Inventory Turns. In her excellent book ‘Supply Chain Metrics that Matter’ (Cecere, L.M., Supply Chain Metrics that Matter, John Wiley & Sons, 2015), Lora Cecere shows how we can reveal the ‘best-practice-frontier’ using so-called ‘orbit charts’. Performance in 2014 has fallen back.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

In supply chain demand benchmarking, we see serious degradation of the forecast in lag 1 (30 days in the future) versus lag 3 or 4 (or 90/120 days in the future), due to the inclusion of sales data in management overrides. Organizational DNA is defined by supply. We hope to see you there! _. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. Unlike domestic suppliers, they will respond to quality benchmarks by throwing labor-end-state inspection and rework-at the problem.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Development of the model began in 2014, and included several prototype phases, with increasingly larger samples of companies included. Based on several iterations of discussions, reviews of metrics, and benchmarking, the team settled on a system for assessing two important indications of supply chain performance.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

We trudge on with our top posts from our main blog categories by page view for all of 2014 from the Cerasis blog by featuring another area Cerasis is an expert in: Transportation. Top 16 Most Popular Transportation Blog Posts of 2014. Let’s take a look at these trucking industry trends and what kind of facts they provide.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Power of Outside-in Processes.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

These measurements can then be compared to OEM guidelines or an established baseline or benchmark. From our experience in these industries its clear that this kind of actual and benchmark data is available but it is spread through numerous points and systems. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Let’s take a closer look at this important metric. Inventory turnover is a metric you can use to calculate how quickly your business completely sells through and replaces the goods in its inventory, within a set time period. A Retailing Industry Perspective ”, published in 2014. What is inventory turnover?

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 14, 2013

December is now upon us and before we know it we’ll be starting off 2014 right, which means it won’t be long until we’re all gathering in San Diego Feb 23 rd to 26 th for RILA Supply Chain 2014. She has also authored The State Of Retailing Online a leading industry benchmark publication. Room 25, Tuesday Feb 25 th , 1:30 pm.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Now ROA and Inventory benchmarks certainly vary from Industry to Industry but on an individual basis do all of the ROAs and Inventory turns for each of these companies represent the benchmark for their respective industries? It could be based on Innovations made, true industry specific benchmarks, Supply Chain capabilities, etc.

Gartner 60

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. Recently, I spoke to a major European retailer that lost 5% of their grocery revenues to Amazon in the first quarter of 2014. Why It Matters.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2015

Many freight brokers have told me that their revenues are down compared to last year, but their margins are better, so their net profits are not very different from 2014 totals. The best growth metrics are the ones you can control. The second metric that you control is employee productivity. Tracking Sustainable Growth.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Now ROA and Inventory benchmarks certainly vary from Industry to Industry but on an individual basis do all of the ROAs and Inventory turns for each of these companies represent the benchmark for their respective industries? It could be based on Innovations made, true industry specific benchmarks, Supply Chain capabilities, etc.

Gartner 10

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