Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. In February 2014, the price was $103.40. To see the analysis of more industries, check out the slideshare presentation.). I hand-pick the presentations. Moving Forward.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

October 28-30, 2014. Session Title: “End to End Visibility and Supply Planning — Schneider Electric” In Alain’s main stage presentation hear how end-to-end supply chain visibility is key for becoming demand-driven and building value in supply networks. Learn more.

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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. The audience listening to these presentations does not have the courage to raise their hands and ask the question, “How do you define demand-driven value networks?”

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Datum: 3-4 December 2014. The Life Sciences SCM Summit breaks away from the traditional conference mould of a presentation-heavy session. Through interactive peer discussions, get up-to-date knowledge on: Theme One: End-to-end Supply Chain Metrics. 5th Annual Life Sciences Supply Chain Summit EU. Organisatie: Eyefortransport.

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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 Insights

MARCH 16, 2015

And we’re celebrating our third birthday by giving all of you a present. 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.

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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. Bryan Ball highlighted the top disruptive supply chain trends including the increasing speed of business, talent and training, and measurement and metric alignment. Analytics Everywhere. Commentary.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

What kept nagging at me though is that the presentations were largely about “righting the ship” rather than “moving from ship to air.” Undoubtedly the most inspirational presentation was by Reuben Slone of Walgreens. It immediately brings home the need for trade-off across competing metrics and objectives.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that was the main point of the keynote presentation: to illustrate to all the stakeholders in the HBM ecosystem (producers, suppliers, contractors, and haulers) the possibilities and opportunities that exist to elevate the way they communicate, collaborate, and orchestrate (plan and execute) their processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Second Phase: 2006-2014. Delivery Metrics: Perfect order delivery although good to continually refine. It is a story of when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. A second response was provided by Niklas Hamnstedt Chief Procurement Officer at TE Connectivity: “I would like to see a stronger rating of supply risk and a supply risk metric.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production and use of biobased products replacing petroleum-based products has the potential to reduce GHG emissions up to 10 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents. In 2014, America’s biobased industry contributed a total of 4.22 million jobs in 2014, with each job in the industry responsible for generating 1.76

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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. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. So, why did I ask SanDisk to present? The use of inventory postponement strategies and the design of buffers was the focus of Kehat’s presentation. This figure outlines the flows.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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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. The results confound me. They are not consistent with market perception.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. The So What?

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2019

Everybody is presenting this in a different way, from one retailer to another. He asserts, “Suppliers just need to figure out the best way to improve their supply chain and logistics so that they can hit a metric to improve the flow of inventory.”[5] LinkedIn, 8 December 2014. [5] Footnotes. [1]

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

From “5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives” originally published on January 14, 2014: 1. You have to equate the value proposition to metrics the CFO understands and cares about, such as working capital, cash flow, and other items linked to the company’s P&L and balance sheet. Ask “What are the risks?”more

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2019

They explain, “If a company scores an impressive 99 percent in all four categories measured by the standard Perfect Order Metric (POM) — complete, on time, damage-free, proper documentation with correct invoicing — the result would be a POM score of just 96 percent. ” Apptricity Blog , 25 November 2014. [2] Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In my presentation at the 2021 International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF), I then combined decision types with augmentation and automation efficacy as per figure 4 (which I would also slightly change now: I would add augmented analytics, which is more applicable for strategic decisions than decision augmentation).

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Establish appropriate metrics that correspond with the steps outlined in your contingency plan. data backups) taken in the present can payoff immensely in the long run. It is also important to regularly test your contingency plan to make sure it is up-to-date, and is relevant to the current operational environment.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Where EBIT or EBITDA per inventory $ or per working capital $ helps in getting meaningful benchmarks and aligned targets, they are not common financial metrics. We will close this blog by discussing the Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) which is close to the EBIT% vs CCC, and which is a more common financial metric.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 23, 2016

However, obstacles have presented themselves several times since then, and the latest bout of violence is not entirely new. According to a company press release, Starbucks purchased its first crop in the Republic of Congo in 2014 and has helped many local farmers since then. The company plans to only grow this endeavor.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 23, 2016

However, obstacles have presented themselves several times since then, and the latest bout of violence is not entirely new. According to a company press release, Starbucks purchased its first crop in the Republic of Congo in 2014 and has helped many local farmers since then. The company plans to only grow this endeavor.

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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. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. We hope to see you there! _.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Opportunities abound — but big gains depend upon sound change management AI presents nearly limitless opportunities to boost the productivity of supply chain professionals across every industry, every team and every need. Metrics are critical as well. Take onboarding and training new employees.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Establish appropriate metrics that correspond with the steps outlined in your contingency plan. data backups) taken in the present can payoff immensely in the long run. It is also important to regularly test your contingency plan to make sure it is up-to-date, and is relevant to the current operational environment.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

OEE is a pervasively used metric in manufacturing as it combines availability, performance, and quality, defining production effectiveness. Combined with other metrics, it’s possible to find the factors that impact manufacturing performance the most and least. Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Presentation (14 pp.,

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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

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. S&OP also presented challenges, but we have since changed to a more structured approach to drive greater business ownership. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today? Keegan McCready, Sr.

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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. Room 25, Tuesday Feb 25 th , 1:30 pm. Speaker(s): Debbie Fortnum, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Belk, Inc. ?

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 24, 2015

To flip the conversation, supply chain executives need to be able to present scenarios and options back to the business. By speaking in terms of trade-offs, where cost, speed and service are a portfolio of levers, they engage the business to present what problem it is trying to solve rather than just give directives.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Speakers from both the sessions presented their views on why and how business partners are critical to IBM success and how working together results into a win-win situation. Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. January 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process. There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. Read the full article here. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. Balance: The ability to balance a portfolio of metrics to maximize market capitalization and free cash flow. My journey of sharing these insights with clients has culminated in the writing of my second manuscript, Metrics that Matter.

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