GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an engineer, former solutions architect and now CEO of a leading supply chain technology company, I have a real affinity and respect for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their teams, without whom successful enterprise technology deployments would be impossible. Recently, I’ve been asking CIOs the “What keeps you up at night?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. The manuscript is due to Wiley on March 1st for an August 2014 publish date. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence?

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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 we show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It is for this reason, that we analyze the patterns of the Metrics That Matter using orbit charts over the period of 2006-2014. The analysis is designed to analyze supply chain leader success on a portfolio of metrics. Nine out of ten are stuck unable to make improvements in these Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Companies compete. The definition of the methodology and the final results sit behind the paywall of Gartner (Gartner requires that companies pay for research). This year, the methodology was based on five factors : Peer rating 25% (Supply chain leaders are asked to rate the companies on the list.). Companies celebrate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I define collaboration as the ability to establish long-term win/win value propositions between and among companies. Yet, only 20% of companies actively manage supplier development programs to get cash to suppliers in need. Cash-to-Cash Metrics. In times of growth, when companies are funding inventory builds, cash is needed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. I just do not think that you can put companies in a spreadsheet and shake them up.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2022

Companies for three years in a row. Since the competition for the best talent is fierce, companies need an edge that will help them win; LSG is that edge. LSG’s team consists of qualified bilingual professionals eager to take on new challenges and become a part of your company. based companies. 500 Fastest Growing U.S.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Live Episode: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 12:00 ET. Building a strong transportation management foundation is a critical pre-requisite for companies to execute their supply chain strategies and achieve their growth and financial objectives. How to leverage the right metrics and carrier scorecards to manage performance.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Today we continue our series on successfully working with a logistics company, often called a third party logistics company by focusing on how to properly understand the success of the engagement by knowing all the key performance indicators that a shipper could put in place. This starts with deploying the S.M.A.R.T.

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Locus

MARCH 30, 2022

All companies in the e-pharma industry sell the same medicines or medical equipment. The prime differentiator in this market is the customer experience that companies offer. 3 Reasons Indian e-pharma companies need digitalization and automation for last-mile deliveries. India’s e-health market is projected to reach $10.6

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SCM Research

APRIL 22, 2015

However, as brand companies make consumers believe they need a new smart phone every two years, today’s global supply chains are responsible for incredibly large amounts of electronic waste. A new United Nations University report, titled The Global E-waste Monitor 2014 , details e-waste generation by region. Mt of screens, 3.0

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

But how do companies best translate strategy to action? Most companies, along with consultants, feel that they know the definition of supply chain excellence. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

For most companies, growth has slowed. We believe that supply chain excellence helps a company to better balance demand and supply. We also believe that it helps companies to be more resilient: weathering demand and supply volatility while maximizing opportunities and mitigating risks. Companies are competitive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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Supply Chain Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Starting a company is not easy. In 2014, we launched the Supply Chains to Admire methodology: evolved the Supply Chain Index ( a method to judge supply chain improvement); and launched the Supply Chain Benchmarking methodology. It is even more challenging when it is a new business model. This is the story of Supply Chain Insights.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

On September 9–11, 2014, 110 supply chain visionaries will gather in the desert at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona to think differently and define the future of supply chain. Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. It is needed. We think so.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 9, 2017

The criteria in qualifying for the Masters category is any company who has been in the top five rankings for at least seven out of the past 10 years. Another change needed is the vast difference between how the 169 peers vs the 38 Gartner analysts rank the companies. Coca Cola Company. Apple and P&G were annually #1 and #2.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 24, 2018

The 1000 largest non-financial companies in the U.S. However, their ability to collect from customers and manage inventory actually both deteriorated, masked by a significant increase in the time companies take to pay suppliers, according to the latest Working Capital Survey results from The Hackett Group. to 51 days. days vs 45.4)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

For the past month, I have been working alongside companies implementing digital strategies. In most companies, I find, that there is an organizational imperative, but no consensus on the goal. Instead of pushing innovation forward, I see companies using the term “digital” as a path for IT spending. ” Incrementalism.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

I wanted to take one particular company and calculate their results myself to understand the methodology fully. The methodology was determined with Supply Chain Insights and Arizona State University in 2014. It measures a company’s improvement in balance, strength and resiliency factors over time. P&G Balance Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

2014 was not a good year for the western ports. The stock plunged, and the company announced the intent to find a buyer in the Wall Street Journal. Today, the market capitalization value of the company is 197M. Running a public software company in the supply chain management space is a tough job.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

Wearable healthcare works by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. They work by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. Wearable fitness pioneer Fitbit was recently acquired by Google.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

While the company has several different goals, two key focuses are improved agility and resilience, and more autonomous planning. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supply chain. The company has over 300,000 products. A Complex Supply Chain.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

Over the years, I’ve come across many large, brand-name companies that have been successful by many measures, such as revenue growth and profitably, but when you peeled back the onion on their supply chain processes and capabilities, they were far from best-in-class. million in net sales in 2014 over the previous year, a 25% increase to $2.1

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the end of a two-year research project, and identifies which publicly held companies outperformed their peer group on balance sheet results. The data analyzed to compile the Supply Chains to Admire 2014 report came from publicly-available information from balance sheets and income statements. How did you define peer groups?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Kimberly-Clark. It is seldom a step change. How Have They Done?

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 16, 2015

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, its income in 2015 will be 10% less than in 2014. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 Funding is lacking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

The average company has 3-5 ERP systems and the data for S&OP comes from an average of 15 systems. 2) The focus needs to be on driving a balanced portfolio of metrics that goes across the organization. Today, most companies are struggling with the ability to improve operating margins and reduce inventory levels.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2015

The 2014 winter weather triggered a trucking capacity problem. In 2014 utilization was 100% of capacity, a crisis phase. However, based on Perry’s estimates, by 2016 that rate is likely to escalate to the 2014 rate. Paying under 30 days is a good way to distinguish your company with carriers. Currently, the U.S.

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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. Almost a year later, that was 100% correct. Ok, here’s my reasoning. Caterpillar falls out and L’Oreal comes in.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

They are precipitated by a strategic relationship between a consulting company and the executive team. The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle. The average company has more than one instance of both.) Data surrounds the company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

We developed the Supply Chain Index in 2014 as a way to measure supply chain improvement at a balance sheet level. Companies that have the most to lose, will drive the fastest rate of change on the Index. After spending five tedious years on the SCOR council executive board, I know that the governance model limited the SCOR council.

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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.

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