Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Yesterday, I presented to 700 global attendees on an APICS webinar. In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. Using quantitative surveys, we collected the data in Figure 1 in 2014. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.

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MARCH 5, 2019

For example, European consumers prefer to buy in their region (75%), then abroad (19%) or at the airport (6%). These statistics are similar for Asian consumers who represent the major consumer market with 62% buying luxury goods in Asia, 16% buying luxury goods at the airport, and 22% buying abroad.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 4, 2015

We are lucky to also feature the great supply chain of Staples, who recently purchased Office Depot. Supply Chain Management Academic Program Gets Hands on Experience from Staples’ Supply Chain Excellence. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and associate professor of supply chain. We hope you enjoy!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Even though things seem to be going well (all of the meeting details are well-executed and the speaker is giving an energized presentation), the room is eerily quiet. By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The So What? I am not surprised.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

increase over 2011, according to Capgemini’s 2014 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study. Leverage the 3PL’s size and scale: The size and scale of a 3PL presents greater optimization and cost savings opportunities than a shipper would have on its own. Excellence ? But it’s not just limited to large corporations.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

Thirdly I have set up global raw material supply (GMS), a supply entity that consolidates CAN’s global purchase orders and global vendors to plan and deliver raw materials for our manufacturing sites. Our buyers are purchasing micro ingredients, such as vitamins, additives, minerals, etc. All three should be in balance.”.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. Further “consumerization” of business IT.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 12, 2015

Head judge Jack van der Veen (Nyenrode Business University) explained that important selection criteria included authenticity, presentation skills, excellence in one’s own context and the ability to look beyond cultural borders. Beers was presented with the trophy by last year’s winner, Jeroen van Weesep (Lego).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

I recently listened to a DuPont present on their redesign of the supply chain. Instead, the presentation focused on making traditional processes move faster. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In buying coffee, should I focus on it being “certified organic”, should I look for a “Fairtrade” label, or for the Rainforest Alliance Certification? When buying household cleaning products, should I look for the Cradle-to-Cradle logo, or the Green Seal? Corbett, Journal of Business Ethics , 2014; DOI 10.1007/s10551-014-2474-3.

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Repl Group

JUNE 3, 2019

from 2014 to 2017. And they also show that although there’s not as much additional spend as in previous years, there are still extra purchases to be secured. Purchases that you want to secure in your retail stores. Strong Growth is a Ghost of Christmas Past. But in 2017 and 2018, growth was stunted at 2% and 2.7%

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2012

We are familiar with the concept of buying online books, electronic goods, gift articles, apparels. But do we purchase grocery online (excluding the perishables) in India. All questions asked do we really need to purchase grocery online when we can get it in a nearby supermarket. I dont think so.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7% As we predicted in 2011, the number of store closings to occur in 2014 will hit record numbers. What is worse than the 2014 store closings will be the bankruptcies in 2015. of total retail sales to 10.3% of total retail sales.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 27, 2019

This is what the event sought to address in all the sessions and presentations: How do we ignite change and move toward a sustainable future? Kailash, an Indian children’s rights activist has saved more than 80,000 children from child labor, slavery and trafficking before he received a Nobel prize in 2014. Sustainability Excellence .

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Moreover, since the SMEs are experts in their areas of expertise only (eg: SMEs for inventory, purchasing, shipping, financials etc.), they find it difficult to integrate the requirements and present a holistic picture to the IT vendor. Supply Excellence. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 13, 2013

Also, with increasingly shorter lifecycles for the components, it is getting increasingly important in the High-Tech industry to plan the components considering substitutes, before placing a buy signal to the Suppliers. Supply Excellence. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Follow us on. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

In my current project about a year ago, North America region Supply Chain Planners were having major concerns related with flawed planning resulting from incorrect or no Source of Supply (SoS) for receipt elements such as Purchase requisitions &/or Planned orders. Supply Excellence. January 2014. Keep sharing! Posted by: Kr.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2012

For example, imagine if it was possible to predict the percentage of customers that were interested in buying a black colored Reebok T-shirt against a brown colored one or to predict the percentage of customers interested in buying a sportz model of a car versus an another model. Supply Excellence. Follow us on. Recent Posts.

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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. Speaker(s): Rob Bass, Vice President, Distribution, Best Buy Co., Room 25, Monday Feb 24 th , 10:30 am.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

An interruption in delivery of parts from a partner in Europe can therefore also have implications in China,” said [Markus Duesmann, BMW board member in charge of purchasing and supplier network]. As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Automotive value chains are international. Total Answers 11. Total Votes 11.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

With mechanisms like downloading a e- prescriptions or a link to health videos demonstrating a health condition related exercise , one can effectively deal with issues like sky rocketing medical costs, problems associated to appointment and being present in person for a doctor checkup. Supply Excellence. January 2014.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Instead of using plastic gift cards, consumers are allowed to store their gift card numbers on their cellphones and smartphones and then redeem their gift card by presenting the stored information on their phone at checkout. Supply Excellence. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Follow us on. August 2013.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 2, 2015

I see many supply chain leaders that have visibility, some in excel and some in automated tools. The Supply Chain Anarchists had a meeting in late 2014, to figure out a way to stop supply chain progress. The traditional horizontal Plan-Buy-Make-Deliver model is gone. They must not have run a supply chain. He said it’s easy.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

The manufacturer has access to the distributor’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders. Definition: Solicit your suppliers to come into your company to assist you with Supply Chain Cost Reductions, and other important issues, rather than your suppliers soliciting your purchasing dollar. If not, modify it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I found two presentations that spoke to me. The first presented in June 2001 outlined where we were in supply chain and what we needed to do. The second presentation given in 2004, shared the results. The retailer’s plan was never normalized against inventory and as a result it did not reflect buying behavior.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2014

The research presents some interesting data and asks the question – “Was Integrated Planning a Hoax?” The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. I did not see it. Yet, the positive market perception continued. Study Results.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2014

The research presents some interesting data and asks the question – “Was Integrated Planning a Hoax?” The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. I did not see it. Yet, the positive market perception continued. Study Results.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Ali, 2014) making it difficult for monitors to distinguish the impact of a REE from the rest of the ore. These credits can then be purchased directly by manufacturers. Making it possible for manufacturers to buy credits –– and thus valorise and support the certified practice –– without physically holding the certified assets.

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AFFLINK

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A group purchasing organization typically finds that it spends 80 percent of its budget on their top 20 suppliers, and they also organize other resources such as time by spend. The fundamental challenge in shipping for supply chain managers is the requirement to wait until all parts are present before shipping the product.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. By 2014 and 2016 revenue was back up to almost its previous high point. In 2013 we had $8M of raw material inventory – due to poor purchasing, poor safety stock decisions, and a lot of WIP in the system. Today, we are at 5.5M

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

No Purchase Orders were used. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant's supply chain excellence. INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014. We came to the conclusion, that each fastener type be put in a slot in a special rack that Fastenal gave us.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

manufacturing facility in 2014. Nike @Nike Morgan Stanley predicts that Nike will move 20% of its production to more automated factories by 2023 to accommodate the new “buy now, wear now” shopping environment and “fast fashion” demand driven by e-commerce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the end of 2014, many leaders that I work with are preparing their 2015 strategies. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. As I read them, I laugh. I give them credit. Only 9% of commerce flows through B2b networks.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Lenovo acquired the Data Center Group from IBM and moved the entire organization to RTP in October 2014. So procurement will buy ahead, and work with suppliers to understand the situation in the market, and that may drive up inventory in one sector. The Personal Systems Group is headquartered in Beijing.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2012

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