Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Cargo 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

News that 3PL giant DHL will buy more than 1000 robots from Boston Dynamics, according to a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two firms. Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030.

Supply Chain Design Software 32

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

I will note we lost one member of our index when software maker and privately held Aptean acquired Logility early in 2025, and will soon lose another software company when non-public WiseTech’s purchase of e2open is finalized. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

CSCMP members can download a copy for no charge, and others can purchase one for a modest fee. Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. With overall transport costs rising 8.7% I recommend it.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. This can be a pleasant experience (it is most of the time) or controversial.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Smith’s pilots were asked to use their personal credit cards to buy fuel and stagger cashing their paychecks.” ( See More Below) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SOFTEON At one point, the company was down to its last $5,000 — which Smith took to Las Vegas and turned into $27,000 playing blackjack.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

South Africa 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

The erratic trade policy with on-again/off-again tariffs has led to price uncertainty for customers, who appear to be prepared to hold off large capital purchases until stability returns. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. a little up from 48.5

Manufacturing Procurement 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Analysis 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

The world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization also maintains CEO Elon Musk’s celebrated remark in 2017 that the Semi will travel up to 500 miles on a single charge. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

Supply Chain Design Software 47

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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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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics.

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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. The implementation of a Demand-Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP) using Orchestr8 followed in 2017. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The reason?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Descartes (@DescartesSG) March 28, 2017.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to OECD and National Health Expenditure data, US healthcare spending per person was approx $10,224 in 2017. However, leading health systems are changing this by building internal supply chain expertise and leadership and investing in fit for purpose technology to enable supply chain excellence. Share on Twitter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2017

It is hard work to maintain the status quo in metrics performance. A balanced portfolio of metrics delivers the greatest value. Companies balance supply chain metrics better in good times than bad. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain. 2) Focus on a balanced portfolio of metrics. Most are treading water.

Inventory Reduction 199

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. trillion, a 3.8

Prescriptive Analytics Software 199

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Logility

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more. Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. Quality Control. Life Cycle Maintenance.

Manufacturing Procurement 130

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more. Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. Quality Control. Life Cycle Maintenance.

Manufacturing Procurement 130

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of excellent reasons circular economies are desirable, including less waste and better use of limited resources. Steutermann notes, “While some metrics on sustainability already exist, they are mostly related to linear metrics, such as reducing waste to landfills or carbon dioxide emissions. Footnotes.

Waste Reduction 100

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. AGCO envisioned employing a 3×3 training metrics: every operation would have 3 people able to execute it, and every person would be able to do 3 operations. Today, I got a quick email from Peggy Gulick. Peggy was a speaker at the Supply Chain Global Summit.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA. & Hoberg, K.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

What is much easier to measure is cost — so that’s what drives the metrics and incentives.”[1] Horizontal (versus Vertical) Process Excellence. ” Cecere continues, “In the integrated supply chain, the core of the data were the solutions for vertical process excellence (CRM, SRM, APS, WMS, TMS, ERP, etc.).

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As I reviewed the list it struck me that it looked very close to the list I remember seeing from 2017. And Lenovo and Nokia were dropped from the 2017 list. But overall most of the list was the same as 2017. In fact if you go back 5 years to 2013 you will find that most of the names are the same as on the 2018 list.

Gartner 76

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

” Those are excellent questions to consider before making investments in any technology. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics. 7] Trevor Miles, “ Let’s be clear: Digitization is not the same as Digital Transformation ,” Kinaxis Blog, 8 December 2017. [8]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Focus on your key cost, quality and delivery metrics. Having trailers parked and unreceived outside of your Receiving docks means that this product does not show as stock and is thus unavailable for your customers to purchase. Copyright Mortson Enterprises Inc, 2017. Raise the bar on your future performance. All Rights Reserved.

Optimal Sourcing 60

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

These insights have produced the following predictions about what the leading companies will be pursuing in terms of competitive supply chain strategy in 2017. 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).

Predictive Analytics Software 40

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

In 2017, Ernst & Young (EY) published a list of the top ten (10) risks for the Aerospace & Defense industries per [7]: General Risks in Development and Manufacture Contracts. The contract may also include metrics and resulting consequences (late fees, etc.). CONTRACTING EXCELLENCE JOURNAL , 15 Jan. Description.

Aerospace 40

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. In the downturn of the market in 2017, it took the average supply chain six months to adjust, I expect alignment with this shift to be worse. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence. The reason?

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