Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Gartner 41

Gartner Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 41

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Lean Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Cargo 41

Cargo Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Gartner 41

Gartner Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Iran 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 32

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Gartner 32

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 32

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Freight Logistics Network Optimization Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 41

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 47

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Forecasting Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

South Africa 41

South Africa Africa Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Gartner 41

Gartner Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Manufacturing Procurement 41

Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Analysis 41

Analysis Procurement Analytics Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015? market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 41

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Cargo Modeling Software 41

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

ABF’s test of the Semi trounces the standard key performance indicator if taken as a stand-alone metric but also surpasses publicly available data released by carriers in earlier pilot tests and by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. An y reaction to t hese stories? Isn't this contradicting in itself?

Supply Chain Design Software 47

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 47

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

It is data driven research: a deep analysis of performance, improvement and Price to Tangible Book Value of 320 companies across 31 industries for the period of 2009-2015. Check out their performance by plotting year-over-year metrics at the intersection of two ratios and look at the patterns. We hope to see you there!

Pharmaceutical 279

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Design Supply Chain Strategy Supply Chain Planning 279

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. As a group, public companies want to make progress to both drive and sustain metrics performance, but they cannot.

Supply Chain Design Software 370

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Software 370

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

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. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. A Look at History. Resiliency.

Pharmaceutical 221

Pharmaceutical Metrics Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Planning Software 221

Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

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.

Procurement Analytics 121

Procurement Analytics Metrics Gartner Supply Chain Planning Software 121

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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.

Supply Chain Design Software 276

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Design Supply Chain Software Supply Chain 276

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. Read the full article here. .

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 227

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Strategy Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Optimization 227

GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We will list the articles based on the number of views, featuring the top 10 from each of these 6 categories that were published in 2015. In 2015, we have already published 232 articles in several different categories. Most Read Manufacturing Articles of 2015. Digital Industry 4.0 Read the full article by clicking here.

Manufacturing 218

Manufacturing Supply Chain Software Internet of things Logistics Network Optimization Software 218

Supply Chain Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2014

We also published our third book, Metrics that Matter (available on December 22 nd ) and successfully produced our second Global Summit. In 2015, we will launch our new community, and a simulation activity for group facilitation to help teams better understand outside-in processes.

Modeling 203

Modeling Benchmarking Metrics Survey 203

Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2015

A clear sign that Mexico is currently in the supply chain spotlight was last month’s Logistic Summit & Expo 2015 in Mexico City, which attracted over 10,000 attendees and almost 200 exhibitors, including leading 3PLs, software vendors, and other supply chain and logistics companies from both the United States and Mexico.

Mexico 224

Mexico Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software 224

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

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. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.

Supply Chain Planning Software 231

Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Software Demand Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software 231

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 418

Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Forecasting Software Modeling 418

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

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 never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

Procurement Analytics 369

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 393

Supply Chain Planning Software Benchmarking Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning 393

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Year-over-year Improvement at the Intersections of the Metrics. It is for this reason, that we are hard at work on the analysis of the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series of reports.

Gartner 332

Gartner Supply Chain Software Demand Planning Software Modeling Software 332

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2014

So as we enter 2015, I would encourage all supply chain leaders to get serious about building value networks. If you miss reading the Shaman in the next few weeks and you want some new reading in the area of supply chain excellence, consider tucking my new book Metrics that Matter into your suitcase. It matters. Enjoy the holidays.

Supply Chain Network Software 312

Supply Chain Network Software Pharmaceutical Supply and Demand Supply Chain Software 312

Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

They also lack process controls and metrics. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 7-11, 2015) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. And despite all the advances in technology, supply chains are still plagued by incomplete, inaccurate, and late information. Some things never change. Time will tell.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 184

Logistics Network Optimization Software Analytics Software Forecasting Software Modeling Software 184

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

When your phone rings, and you and your supply chain team is called to the corporate office to talk about the expansion of your ecommerce strategy for 2015, here are my recommendations: 1) Embrace the Each. Some of the packages on the trucks moving right now are the first shipments of Metrics that Matter. What do you think?

Packaging 333

Packaging Inventory Reduction Supply Chain Design Software San Francisco 333

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 11, 2015

Too few companies understand that the supply chain as a complex system with finite and non-linear relationships between the metrics. This month, we will publish our 2015 Handbook on S&OP Technologies in our monthly newsletter. Companies also struggle to get to data. Have we missed anything?

S&OP 372

S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling 372