Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

Last week, I interviewed Robert Byrne, founder of Terra Technology on his demand planning benchmarking study. I enjoy creating the podcast series, and Rob’s findings in his benchmark study are always thought-provoking. This requires analytics that can learn and adapt as markets shift. Manage New Item Bias.

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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.) Understanding this relationship requires modeling. (A A Case Study.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JUNE 3, 2014

First Reports Filed to SEC on Potential Use of Minerals From a Region of War-Torn Africa. By John Kester and Maxwell Murphy June 2, 2014 7:28 p.m. The admissions were among reports by nearly 1,300 U.S.-listed “We will be looking for more companies reporting in greater detail soon.” Crew Group Inc.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Benchmarking & Best Practices Consortiums. Consortium Report. ©2014 Tompkins International. |. Supply Chain IT Systems. Material Handling Integration. Special Services. Our Focus Industries. Consumer Products. Pharmaceutical & Healthcare. Third-Party Logistics. Our Thinking. Client Success Stories. White Paper.

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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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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The problem lies in how that data is analyzed and reported. Sgaier , CEO and Co-Founder of Surgo Health, and her colleagues Vincent Huang and Grace Charles explain, “Much of artificial intelligence (AI) in common use is dedicated to predicting people’s behavior. 2] Joris M.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Inventory turnover is a key formula that’s often discussed in the context of inventory management efficiency, and crops up in most types of inventory report. Let’s take a closer look at this important metric. Now you know how much you inventory cost for the period. A Retailing Industry Perspective ”, published in 2014.

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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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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this blog, Andy discusses the health of the manufacturing industry, manufacturing technology orders, and setting benchmarks for company performance. At Wenzel we watch the PMI ( Purchasing Managers Index ) and the USMTO (United States Manufacturing Technology Orders) numbers and compare them with our own performance.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 3, 2019

Analysts from Innova Market Insights report, “Forty percent of people across the world said they are trying to be healthier by increasing their consumption of fruits and vegetables. ”[5] Benchmark analysts agree gut-healthy foods are on the rise. Benchmark analysts note, “Chefs are looking for new sources of protein.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. In early 2014, using the principles of open research, we at Supply Chain Insights hosted a study on Supply Chain Planning. All of the results are reported in aggregate. I did not see it.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

suggests that it is more likely that the business model is driving the high ROA, not Supply Chain per se. 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?

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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

JANUARY 29, 2019

The National Weather Service advises people to stay indoors, but if you must go out, " avoid taking deep breaths and minimize talking," according to a report in USA Today. Consumers tend to stay home , cutting purchases at stores and restaurants. CNN reports that " 75% of the U.S. That means dangerous driving conditions.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Recently, Whirlpool's management took a more customer-centric approach to analyzing its supply chain and began benchmarking its supply chain against other companies to identify "best in class" practices. A service level agreement with Logistics KPIs would help monitor these objectives.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

suggests that it is more likely that the business model is driving the high ROA, not Supply Chain per se. 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?

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