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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire 2015

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Tomorrow, I present the Supply Chains To Admire 2015 Analysis at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in Scottsdale, AZ. At the event, we will also announce the winners of the Supply Chains to Admire methodology for 2015. The analysis is designed to analyze supply chain leader success on a portfolio of metrics.

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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

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Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I thought that the industry averages were fairly constant. A Case Study.

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2016: Building a Balanced Scorecard for Discrete Industries

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To help, in this blog post I share industry trends. 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. All industries are in decline. What can we learn?

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2016: Building a Balanced Scorecard for Discrete Industries

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, in this blog post, I share industry trends. 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. All industries are in decline. What can we learn?

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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. Orbit Chart for Henkel versus Consumer Non-Durable Industry for the Period of 2010-2019.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step in the journey is to analyze balance sheet results and understand industry trends. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results.