Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

About the Supply Chains to Admire Research. Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are a portfolio of metrics which correlate to higher market capitalization.

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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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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There are many ways to measure supply chain performance in terms of resilience, but there is one that’s easily overlooked even though it is gaining in importance: Detection time. The post Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

An avid student of supply chain performance, I have asked the question of What makes a “supply chain leader” for the last six years. Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. improvements. I was wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. 19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. A similar pattern exists for Colgate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. While I do not consider this case study as a good example of demand-driven processes, I do believe that they have done some great work on implementing a customer segmented supply chain based on postponement. I had the opportunity to visit with the SanDisk team in July 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

At Supply Chain Insights , we are taking a more methodical approach. When full-year public data becomes available in April, we take each industry and analyze results over the period of 2006-2015. Pharmaceutical Ranking for the Supply Chains to Admire Analysis. This is problematic for the supply chain leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. Lora Cecere is the Supply Chain Shaman.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Based on the analysis of supply chain improvement (as measured by the Supply Chain Index ) and supply chain performance, we ranked the supply chain leaders by industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Performance of BMS and Merck at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015. Understanding What Drives Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In this Forbes article, I write about my insights from the Supply Chains to Admire Work , an annual assessment of balance sheet performance, and a hard look at supply chain performance. The Journey. I hope this helps: Organizational Alignment. Organizations that are better aligned outperformed.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Combining the strengths of unsupervised learning, supervised learning and reinforcement learning, machine learning is proving to be a very effective technology that continually seeks to find key factors most affecting supply chain performance. How the Use of Big Data Analytics Affects Value Creation in Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. I designed the agenda to help supply chain leaders rethink the future in a deeper way than any other conference agenda that I see in the market. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights. About the Author: Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

percent in 2015. This means company supply chains have to account for items with high demand in a limited timeframe. One of the best sources of seasonal data, however, is companies analyzing performance that comes from their own records. restaurants featured pumpkin-flavored options in 2010, that number rose to 14.5

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

percent in 2015. This means company supply chains have to account for items with high demand in a limited timeframe. One of the best sources of seasonal data, however, is companies analyzing performance that comes from their own records. restaurants featured pumpkin-flavored options in 2010, that number rose to 14.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. This is in preparation for the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire Report. The agenda focuses on even themes: Supply Chains to Admire.

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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. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. However, they accepted the challenge and defined customer strategies for each supply chain type.

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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). Bringing It All Together: The Connected Supply Chain.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2016

The MAPI Foundation recently released predictions for how the supply chain will grow and evolve from 2016 to 2018. While the supply chain fell short of previous expectations for growth in 2015, it continued to have a strong fourth quarter in 2015. Read More About the Metrics for Supply Chain Here.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And since so many aspects of supply chain management affect both customer experience and financial metrics, supply chain innovation efforts need to take these factors into consideration too. For more insights and advice on this topic, stay tuned for an upcoming research report to be published in Q1 2018.

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