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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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. They all sound alike and each company makes similar claims of how the implementation of supply chain planning improves costs, lowers inventory and improves the return on assets.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Over my next few articles, I’ll share some tips on the kinds of resolutions you can put in place to get your supply chain performance back on track in 2015. Of course, if your supply chain is already humming, then these tips can help you achieve even greater levels of performance.

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Demand Solutions

MARCH 11, 2015

Should you continue stocking it in 2015? If you’re serious about reducing inventory, you need a stocking policy that you can put down on paper and refer to throughout the year. Extra inventory. You could choose to: - Centralize inventory of the product in a “hub” distribution center. My gut feeling is “no.”

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

Of course people like me, who stretch the limits on the useful life of a product, tend to throw outliers into the data. percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory. That followed a 1.0 percent in April.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. To overcome this, Amazon has developed sophisticated inventory management systems that allow them to efficiently store and retrieve products from their fulfillment centers.

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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

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. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. This is especially true for the Titans.

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Logility

AUGUST 28, 2018

Of course people like me, who stretch the limits on the useful life of a product, tend to throw outliers into the data. percent last month, the biggest drop since January 2015, after advancing 1.2 Expanding Consumer Product Preferences and Resulting Explosion in Inventory. That followed a 1.0 percent in April.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 18, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. It all began last summer. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2016

They initially pitched their inventory optimization project to their private equity owners as an opportunity to free up working capital. Source: Gartner (December 2015). Click below to read the story about how Findus successfully pitched their inventory optimization project to their board. This concludes your opening.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

.” As shown in Table 1, operating margin has declined 16% over the course of the decade. As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. This transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Over the course of trip to Atlanta to connect to Peru, we began a discussion. Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System?

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Procurement Academy

OCTOBER 25, 2021

That’s good, of course. It’s the biggest such event since the Paris conference in 2015, which set several aggressive goals for reducing climate-changing emissions—goals that for all our sakes, it’s important that we collectively achieve. Shorter supply chains, for example, are greener supply chains, emitting fewer emissions.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Implementing an interdependent hierarchy of metrics can drive balance between conflicting goals and consensus on the best course of action. 1 The Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics: Diagnosing Your Supply Chain Health - Gartner, 26 June 2015. These metrics help measure how fast your supply chain is creating value.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Such a transformation will take time, effort, and, of course, money. Automating processes for improved inventory turnovers. With AI, you can get better inventory management and delivery logistics while reducing operating costs.” Incorporating customer feedback to adapt to their needs. ” Concluding Thoughts.

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. Such scenario capability provides significant value across the entire supply chain, from demand and inventory planning to supply management, capacity planning, and order fulfillment.

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Demand Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2015

I discussed the importance of putting useful supply chain performance measures in place for 2015. I don’t mean that literally, of course. Or, if you have no inventory of the product and you’re not actively forecasting it, that’s an equally good reason to delete the record. Today, let’s talk about cleaning out your garage.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

Second, we just released our second Talking Logistics YOUniversity course, Building a Strong Transportation Management Foundation. We also developed a short online quiz for you to take after completing the course, and enabled an online discussion forum for course participants to post questions and share knowledge and advice with each other.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

More than 14,000 individuals have already signed up for the first course, CTL.SC1x Supply Chain and Logistics Fundamentals , of the three-course program. The SCx curriculum is part of the MITx initiative, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s selection of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Procurement and purchasing.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Of course, Amazon’s ever-growing shipping and logistics costs are a drag on profitability, which the company offsets in part with its highly-profitable cloud computing business. Source: “Tech in Asia” – https://www.techinasia.com.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results. December 2015 North American Freight Numbers. Amazon, of course, has been the main catalyst in shaping consumer expectations regarding delivery time and cost — and in getting competitors to pursue unprofitable delivery programs of their own. in January.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 18, 2021

1] The disrupter in the 1940s was, of course, the Second World War. In 2020,” Katsov explains, “managers of supply chains and inventories had to work through numerous shocks related to lockdowns, reopenings, shifts in consumer behavior and economic downturns. They are: New data and methods. “In 3] Michael C.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 4, 2022

He explains, “Your company is probably using AI, most likely on a correlation basis to improve forecasting, eliminate bias, determine inventory policies, or predict disruption due to external vectors like weather. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [10]

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2017

In fact, up to 73 percent of companies are actively using cloud-based solutions for manufacturing, reflecting a 7-percent increase from 2015. Workers now have numerous handheld devices that can be leveraged to improve inventory management and grow the company. Cloud-Based Solutions Reduce Cybersecurity Risks and Costs.

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Elementum

JUNE 7, 2022

Even with all these remediating steps taken, the course correction is still running behind: the infant formula shortage is expected to last at least several more weeks. In 2015, the Tianjin port explosion rocked maritime shipping coming out of China. And, they ’ re rationalized as transitory or par-for-the-course.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2015

Imagine a bitcoin being a unit of inventory and a digital wallet (“bitcoin address”) being an inventory-keeping location, such as a store, distribution center, or truck trailer. A supply chain blockchain application, therefore, could be used to record the balances and transfers of inventory across a distributed supply chain network.

Supply Chain Network Software 100

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Of course, all order entry cut-off date scenarios are dependent upon distance. This will be true in dictating cut-offs going forward into Holiday 2015 and beyond. More specifically, pure play online retailers must adopt an order entry cut-off date for Christmas delivery that is realistic.

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Supply Chain Trend

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Of course I’m very pleased and honoured with this. One of them is Life Styles Inventory , the other one Mental Toughness. In my S&OP pulse check 2015 , 68% of practitioners call out that behaviours are not addressed enough in S&OP implementations. It is Saturday morning 8.18

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. The balance factor tracks progress on both year-over-year growth and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and the strength factor is based upon improvement in both operating margin and inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Of course not… But, the industry is in a group think. It is tough for me to see that nine out of ten companies are stuck, and not making progress, at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Attendees at our 2015 Global Summit. No one is having a fact-based discussion. This is how we see our role.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

But there’s also something exhilarating about watching a group of kids, over the course of a few short weeks, come together as friends and as a team, overcoming adversity together, celebrating achievements together, and just having plain old fun together regardless of the score. DHL employs robot as picker’s best companion.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

And also, how much and where the optimal inventory should go so we can satisfy that customer’s needs wherever she wants to shop.”[5] There’s also the added labor, time-consuming worker training, the need to discount inventory, and additional handling and shipping fees. ”[6]. .”[7] Footnotes. [1]

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

However, over the course of several months, this slight change in pressure could cause permanent damage to the machine, or it may cause additional problems for other aspects of the manufacturing process. Cantaloupe System uses the IoT to help monitor the temperatures of their vending machines, detect thieves, and monitor inventory.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory. Implemented cross-docking in its supply network to enable inventory reductions. Inventory shortages. Place your main inventory holdings close to your logistic partner’s central hub.

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