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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Belief in efficient procurement.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies wrestle with pandemic results, they must face the reality that a new form of decision support is required to sense market shifts in markets and make decisions at the speed of business. ” Companies know they have a problem with adopting new technologies, but they do not have clear answers on what to do next.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Procurement Trends: Carving a Bigger Role in Supply Chain & Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

As time passed, procurement gradually gained a larger role in the scope of manufacturing and order fulfillment. By the mid-1950s , procurement had become a commonplace aspect of minor business, and procurement was almost comparable to secretarial work. Why Is Technology Driving Procurement Trends and the Role of Procurement?

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E2open Acquires Zyme: A Bridge Too Far?

Supply Chain Shaman

For readers of this blog that do not know Zyme, the company focuses on the management of channel data in the high-tech industry. The company is a CRM solution. The Zyme solution improves revenue management, warranty and rebate processes. The focus was on automating procurement. Investors moaned.

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Student projects focus on supply management segmentation, risk analytics, and predictive cost models.

Supply Chain View from the Field

One of the issues they came up with was the relative weighting of different categories, which included the highest rated being quality, cost, risk, on-time delivery, and information sharing. A John Deere team discussed how they attempted to build a predictive cost model.

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6 Questions To Ask 3rd Party Logistics Companies for 2015 and Beyond

GlobalTranz

Many different factors have been previously discussed on specific details of selecting a 3PL , but have you truly learned how to identify the top-notch 3rd Party Logistics Companies from the fly-by-night, intermediary 3rd Party Logistics Companies? What Is the Company’s History?

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Predictive Analytics: Supply Chain’s Cloudy Crystal Ball

Enterra Insights

They explain, “The best way to understand any company’s operations is to view them as a series of decisions.”[1] Companies that make better decisions, make them faster and execute them more effectively than rivals nearly always turn in better financial performance. The benefits of predictive analytics. ”[4].