Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. I had the opportunity to visit with the SanDisk team in July 2015. When I heard their story, I scratched my head.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. There are hundreds of inventory control blog posts on how to organize warehouses, track goods and pick and pack efficiently. Firstly, let’s get a few definitions: What is inventory control? 6 Inventory Control Techniques to Optimize Stock Levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much. below transits in December 2015, before the Neopanamax locks went into service. And now on to this week’s logistics news. December transits fell 4.7%

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2015

XPO Logistics Announces Second Quarter 2015 Results. Our ability to expand same-day delivery is rooted in local merchandise inventories at Macy’s stores, as well as a newly expanded delivery footprint of our partners at Deliv [emphasis mine].”. Cargo Chief Cracks the Code on Transportation Capacity. Harrison, Macy’s, Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” This week, I published an in-depth analysis on the topic.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What is Inventory Replenishment? Inventory replenishment is the process of moving stock items along the supply chain to ensure inventory levels are sufficient to cover demand. Effective inventory replenishment processes ensure that order fill rates can be achieved while keeping inventory carrying costs under control.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

A supply chain design solution examines the trade-offs between sourcing options, production and distribution costs, inventory carrying costs, transportation costs, customs and duties processes to come up with the total costs associated with achieving a targeted service level for a particular strategic option.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2020

What is Inventory Optimization? Inventory Optimization is defined as a method of balancing the manufacturers’ capital investment constraints and goals along with the defined service-level goals over a large assortment of stock-keeping units (SKUs) while considering all demand and supply volatility situations. Inventory strategy.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2020

What is Inventory Optimization? Inventory Optimization is defined as a method of balancing the manufacturers’ capital investment constraints and goals along with the defined service-level goals over a large assortment of stock-keeping units (SKUs) while considering all demand and supply volatility situations. Inventory strategy.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

OpenAI, a UK-based AI research laboratory, was founded in 2015 by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, among other notable tech figures. All of this analysis can be done in real time, too. The plus side to this model is reduced inventory and cost savings because less storage space is required.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The composite of metrics includes growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital.) A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis. Inventory Turns.

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EazyStock

MARCH 9, 2021

What is ABC Analysis? ABC inventory analysis is a method used to classify a business’s stock items into three categories – A, B and C, based on their value to the business. In this blog post we’ll delve deeper into the intricacies of ABC analysis and how it can help businesses improve their inventory management practices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

Five months of analysis. Selfishly, we need standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. Selfishly, we need standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. It is now over.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This reminded me of what Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, said at the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference: “Contrary to what many people believe, investing in employees is not dilutive to a company’s financial results and shareholder value — it’s actually accretive.”.

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Logility

MAY 7, 2020

and up to date transaction data (order status, inventory positions, shipment tracking, etc.) to enable rich and continuous analysis and response to unplanned events. Advanced Analytics: Often the largest benefits from digital transformation come from new insights gained from new analysis capabilities. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. It is for this reason, that we asked companies participating in our 2015 Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking to share raw data. We then worked on the analysis. The activity was inductive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The analysis was industry-specific. To complete the research, we assigned each company in the analysis a unique company ID to reduce bias. For this analysis, J&J was assigned to the pharmaceutical industry. Note that there is an inverse relationship between inventory turns and inventory targets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As They include growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis. Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. In the analysis, we study 33 industry peer groups across more than three hundred public companies. The performance factors evaluated in the analysis are: Growth. Inventory Turns. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2018

The analysis should lead you to a small list of technology providers. E.G. 2015 and 2016 would be used to try to forecast 2017.). What is required for “what-if analysis?” What is required in the analysis for revenue management? What is the role of the demand process in this analysis? As an engine?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. We complete the analysis each year. In this analysis, patterns matter.

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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. A ranking in the top 2/3 of the peer group qualifies a company for further analysis. This analysis determines which companies are driving the greatest value. Inventory Turns. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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6 River Systems

JULY 30, 2020

Managing warehouse inventory, on its face, seems a simple concept: Keep enough stock on hand to fulfill orders, but not so much stock that your warehouse is filled to the brim with inventory that won’t move for months (or years). How much does it cost to store and maintain slow-moving or stagnant inventory?

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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. Inventory Turns. Progress on inventory turns is declining due to business complexity. It is more difficult now.

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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. Inventory Turns. Progress on inventory turns is declining due to business complexity. It is more difficult now.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. Over this period of 2013-2014 Shell made good progress on inventory, but faced unprecedented supply price volatility. Product Portfolio Analysis.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Economic order quantity is one of the “most commonly used inventory-control techniques”. The objectives and advantages of Economic Order Qty (EOQ) are to minimize inventory carrying costs and ordering costs while simultaneously limiting the probability of stock out to avoid any lost sales or customer loss. Boston: Pearson, 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

The answer to these questions requires the analysis of many factors. To understand the variance of planner responses, we used an analysis technique termed box and whisker plots. There are more outliers in the inventory and demand planning responses creating longer ‘whiskers.’ What else do we see in the data?

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory.

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AFFLINK

JANUARY 26, 2017

Proper hospital inventory management can be tricky: administrators and healthcare supply chain professionals must make sure their facilities have enough product to meet demand from doctors and nurses, but not too much that it negatively impacts the hospital’s budget or takes up too much space. Collect Data from the Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

Five months of analysis. Selfishly, we need a standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. Selfishly, we need a standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. The answer?

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Disposable income can ebb and flow abruptly due to natural and man-made disruptions, leaving durable goods manufacturers scrambling to dispose of excess inventory. Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The group is cross-functional and serves the business by mining demand insights, sensing market patterns based on channel data, and recommends demand shaping programs based on analysis of revenue management. The opinions, if not grounded in a disciplined approach of forecast-value add analysis, can introduce bias and error.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America. Machine learning was added to automatically fine-tune that analysis to better distinguish between “signal” and “noise.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered?

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 8, 2016

Compiling results from more than 400 healthcare logistics executives across 16 countries, the results show rapid business growth is the major stumbling block in controlling costs for pharmaceutical supply chains, with 56% of respondents admitting they struggled with it in 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. The use of unstructured text mining, and sentiment analysis, to understand and listen to customer responses to products and services in near real-time.

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