Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. Note that the industry aggregate actually went backwards, as did operating margin and inventory for the period 2015-2017. This has pushed the company to hyper-connectivity with the final consumer. Supply Chains to Admire Methodology. Growing Pains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software. The company is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world. Why does it matter to you?

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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. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns .

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. While the macroeconomic signals trigger market downturns, to meet Wall Street expectations, manufacturers usually push products into the market. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Chinese restated and devalued of the Yuan.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. Dean: In smaller and less complex manufacturers, mature processes can be achieved through a combination of manual and technology-enabled processes.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

This article was first published in June of 2015. Therefore, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit each of the trends listed below, with a brief update as to how the situations have developed, and a look at the state of play in 2018. BRICs Are Moving to Buying, Not Just Making. What Happened to These Trends?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Unless you are customising your manufacturing for each product, we’ll assume the production cost is the same each time the same product is produced. The tools for determining Cost To Serve include standard spreadsheet applications, such as MS Excel, and network design modeling software. The reason for this is simple.

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