Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Only four percent of companies outperformed their peer groups. Orbit Chart of Four Industry Sectors at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns (Year-over-Year Averages for the Sector). Lack of Focus on Form & Function of Inventory and Designing Network Flows. How could the industry spend 1.7%

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Solutions Group , which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. About Lean Solutions Group. Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 290 satisfied U.S. Vendor Managed Inventory. Inventory Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. In fact, the teams ignore the forecast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

” E2E also means being able to see things when they are not in transit, such as raw materials upstream, inventory in a warehouse or yard, products in retail outlets, or shipments stuck in customs. Technology companies have an average of 125 suppliers in their tier-one group and more than 7,000 across all tiers.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 30, 2019

Prior to joining ToolsGroup in 2014, Mauro held global executive roles for businesses including Telecom Italia Group and Fiat Group Automobiles in customer operations, sales and marketing, IT and business development.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. The technology group wanted to implement SAP IBP, and the business leaders were resistant.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. 2013 has certainly been an interesting year! Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. If it takes 50 days from ownership transition at origin to receipt at the warehouse, you could save $2M in inventory, or $250K in working capital, if you reduce transit time by one day (50 to 49 days). Faster order-to-cash.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory. Lesson learned.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So why do we feature content related to Vendor Managed Inventory? In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. ” Vendor Managed Inventory Model: A Quick Back Story. We never ran out of or had too much inventory.

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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. In this analysis, we evaluate relative performance and improvement of a company on the supply chain metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and ROIC within its peer group.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility. He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them. And what is sitting in the warehouse. And at the cross-dock.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

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. For this story, I have grouped like competitors together. Year-over-year they have driven operating margin improvement while outperforming their peer group on inventory turns.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 20, 2014

To keep a healthy inventory level, you don’t want to cast rare steel grades too frequently. Steel and aluminum mills often plan manufacturing campaigns that group products with specific characteristics. The goal of campaign planning is to find the optimum balance between productivity, inventory and customer satisfaction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

I also continued to work on the manuscript for the book Metrics That Matter to publish in the fall of 2014. This is a networking group that meets by phone once a month. The average client that has implemented demand sensing technologies has reduced inventory by 11%. The book is now a very worn manuscript. It makes a difference.

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RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

Proper temperature prevents certain inventory from becoming unusable and keeps consumables safe for customers. Packaging Digest reported the global health care cold chain logistics market is projected to increase by $3-billion between 2014 and 2018. For this reason and more, federal regulators and other groups, such as the U.S.

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RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

Proper temperature prevents certain inventory from becoming unusable and keeps consumables safe for customers. Packaging Digest reported the global health care cold chain logistics market is projected to increase by $3-billion between 2014 and 2018. For this reason and more, federal regulators and other groups, such as the U.S.

Inventory 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

Team members need to be held equally accountable for growth, inventory, profitability, customer service, and forecast accuracy. Today, most companies are struggling with the ability to improve operating margins and reduce inventory levels. Demand Supply Chain alignment inventory turns Sales and operations planning'

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

Included in this update are updates involving Fisker , Lucid Group , Volkswagen and BYD. The UAW has fallen short in two prior votes to organize the Chattanooga facility — in 2014 and 2019, both times by narrow margins. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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RFgen

APRIL 5, 2016

Cosmetic damage to products is a common problem in inventory management, but holds special challenges for food manufacturers. As all organizations with food inventory change their practices to prevent local hunger, it may mean reaching out to partners with the warehouse management skills necessary to make sure efforts don’t go to waste.

Food 52

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RFgen

APRIL 5, 2016

Cosmetic damage to products is a common problem in inventory management, but holds special challenges for food manufacturers. As all organizations with food inventory change their practices to prevent local hunger, it may mean reaching out to partners with the warehouse management skills necessary to make sure efforts don’t go to waste.

Food 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

It is now owned by Gartner Group and used as a commercial tool to drive client engagements. Inventory Turns (15%) (based on 2014 results). Growth 10% (Year-over-Year comparison of 2013 versus 2014). There is no consideration of relative performance against peer group or evaluation of year-over-year improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. We have found that nine out of ten organizations are stuck on their ability to make improvements on both operating margin and inventory turns in the same year. Why Does It Matter? However, the research has taught us a lot.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. In some case they manage inventory at the customer’s site. “We First, the supply chain group truly needs to understand buying behaviors and key attributes of their customers. The company has over 300,000 products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

The belief was that the company—acquired by private equity firm Agman Partners in 2014—could scale the business more effectively if it underwent a digital transformation. The customer success representative would then take the inventory information and contact the route planner to verify if there was capacity, and on what days. “We

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Prior to joining Lineage in 2014, Eric spent 7 years as a management consulting within the healthcare, pharmaceutical and retail spaces. In his previous role as Group Vice President for Oracle Communications, he was a senior member of the leadership team responsible for strategy with oversight of worldwide sales, alliances and partnerships.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

After years of struggling to manage their inventory, brands are using increasingly sophisticated tools to track apparel and accessories through the supply chain, aiming to avoid the typical post-Christmas fire sales. That’s what led to especially bad inventory problems in recent years. E-Commerce Burden.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which there is a desire for harmony within the group, but the result is an irrational or dysfunctional outcome. I feel that the industry is engaged in ‘Group Think’ No one in this meetings is going to ask tough questions.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

Boston Consulting Group talks about how the “endless aisles” of the internet and omni-channel sales increase product assortment. Across the CPG industry, demand forecast errors increased in 2014 and were unchanged in 2015, according to Gartner analyst Steve Steutermann. Leverage Inventory More Effectively.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2023

To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), started a site called Spurious Correlations. Mooij, Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, Jakob Zscheischler, and Bernhard Schölkopf, “ Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks ,” ArXiv, 11 December 2014.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

October 28-30, 2014. Benji Green, director of global sales, operations and inventory planning, Avaya. One key challenge faced by the supply chain planning group is determining how to increase the velocity of rollouts to additional sites across multiple divisions within the company.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Datum: 18-20 november 2014. PLUS an all day track focussing on omnichannel retail exploring delivery options, inventory and returns. >> >> Click here to see the 2014 agenda. Chris Tyas, Group Head of Supply Chain, Nestle. >> Click here to see the 2014 speaker list. >> URL: [link].

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

P&G is in a small industry segment; the Household Products (Nondurable) industry includes only 10 companies – Church & Dwight, Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox, Kimberly-Clark, Newell Rubbermaid, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser Group, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Tupperware Brands, and Unilever. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

Examples 137

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2021

Prior to joining Lineage in 2014, Eric spent 7 years as a management consulting within the healthcare, pharmaceutical and retail spaces. In his previous role as Group Vice President for Oracle Communications, he was a senior member of the leadership team responsible for strategy with oversight of worldwide sales, alliances and partnerships.

Supply Chain Planning Software 130

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

These were just a few of the themes discussed at this year’s Connections 2014, Logility’s customer conference. Sean Willems delivered a master class on why optimized inventory policies are crucial to profit-enhancing segmentation strategies that achieve differentiated service levels and maximum return on investment.

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