Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. Adopt performance metrics for carriers. It is still a people business. He currently serves as Sr.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence. What does this mean? Disintermediation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. Economic markets plummeting… D aily we see the financial charts roll across the news. The water cooler is buzzing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). However, localized sourcing shortened leadtimes and improve responsiveness.

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Vinculum

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It may be an excellent time for merchants to consider D2C channels now that this space isn’t going anywhere but up. D2C is also set to enjoy the lion’s share of eCommerce growth as consumer preferences shift toward convenience and ease of purchase. MYTH: To start selling, direct sellers must purchase their inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . Top 10 Supply Chain Articles from 2015. No Purchase Orders were used.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Source: Gartner. Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1. ROA: (2017 net income/2017 total assets)*50% + (2016 net income/2016 total assets)*30% + (2015 net income/2015 total assets)*20%. Source: Gartner (May 2018).

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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

JANUARY 11, 2016

The source of the content is research. Last night, as I was working on the report for the newsletter, I wrote a summary of the last study which we completed in 2015 on the adoption of technology. The purchase of supply chain solutions remains a complex sale with increased power by Line of Business Leaders.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In other words, many supply chain and purchasing solutions looks at historical transaction activity (what happened in the past and is captured in our ERP systems). This is a radical representation, as it requires thinking that the key performance metric in this case is agility and responsiveness to customer and technological change.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Although Lean principles provide an excellent basis for managing energy costs, such costs are often left out of an efficiency drive… Why is that? Today manufacturers must continually look for waste reduction, process improvement and supply chain efficiency to meet competitive pressures and their customers’ cost reduction requirements.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Source: Gartner. Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1. ROA: (2017 net income/2017 total assets)*50% + (2016 net income/2016 total assets)*30% + (2015 net income/2015 total assets)*20%. Source: Gartner (May 2018).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the end of 2014, many leaders that I work with are preparing their 2015 strategies. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. Too few companies understand the differences between syndicated data sources and the use of channel data.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

This article was first published in June of 2015. Their ability to perform with excellence exists only while supply and demand conditions remain stable—which is a rarity in today’s environment of globalisation and on-demand consumerism. BRICs Are Moving to Buying, Not Just Making. What Happened to These Trends? A 2018 Update.

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