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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

In the orbit chart in Figure 2, you first will notice that both VF is less resilient than Nike and that from 2015 to 2019, Nike outperformed VF. Their supply chain results in 2019 are worse than in 2015, and this was before the pandemic. Both companies outperformed their peer groups. Now, let’s take consumer products.

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Get Your COV On….

Supply Chain Shaman

Most supply chain leaders cannot get their groove on because they generalize–the use of the same metric targets and tactics for the supply chain without paying attention to the flows. In Figure 1, I share data from the risk management study of 2015. The answer is more than simple demand planning techniques.

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

It is for this reason, that we asked companies participating in our 2015 Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking to share raw data. This is our first year of completing a structured benchmarking activity, and it is my goal to broaden this analysis with more industries and companies in 2015. We then worked on the analysis.

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Give New Answers to Bridget

Supply Chain Shaman

I had worked hard to teach the team presenting to talk the language of demand , but it was not understood at the board-room level. If you want to read more on this topic and understand the impact on the value chain results, consider picking up my new book Metrics that Matter , for reading over the holidays. We can do this together.

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Planning Software: Insights on User Satisfaction

Supply Chain Shaman

There are more outliers in the inventory and demand planning responses creating longer ‘whiskers.’ ’ However, when we analyze the quartile data, we find that the range of satisfaction is greater for tactical supply planning. Figure 1: Overall Satisfaction with Planning Solutions. The industry is stuck.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015. We are stronger in supply than demand. The patterns are circular.

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Is Sales and Operations Planning a Digital Age Process?

Enterra Insights

. “The frequency of the plan needs to be common across the organization. If one business has a weekly planning system, and another has a monthly system, good luck!” ” Metrics Definition. Optimized Selection and Application of Demand Planning Algorithms. ” Reporting Structure. Footnotes. [1]