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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

To build an outside-in model, and use new forms of analytics, we must start the discussion with the question of, “what drives value?” ” Traditional planning models optimize functional processes to improve cost and customer service. You are right. Before we get started, let’s agree. The reason?

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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Wikipedia In 2014, I was exploring methods to publish what is now the Supply Chains To Admire report. The use of orbit charts allowed me to see the patterns of performance at the intersection of metrics over time. We purchase data from Y charts. (A We have archived corporate reporting from Y charts for 1982-2023.

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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. What Drives Value?

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, we published The Supply Chains to Admire for 2023. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. How Do You Define Excellence? As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. Congratulations to the 34 winners. I admit it.

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Strategic Sourcing + Smart Solutions: The Unbeatable Duo for Procurement Success

SCMDOJO

Strategic sourcing and innovative solutions are often viewed as two distinct procurement tools, but they should not be seen in isolation. Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence.

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Battered by Fierce Winds. Will E2open Survive?

Supply Chain Shaman

This notice of the Rodanthe house purchase by the National Park Service was listed in my news feed above an article that Elliott Management Partners announced a confirmed 13.8% On August 31, 2023, E2open reported fiscal second-quarter reporting. This buying spree followed a decade of seven software purchases.

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Logistics Predictions: How Did We Do in 2022 and What Will 2023 Look Like?

Logistics Viewpoints

Unlike the folks projecting election results these days, I was a little more accurate and the 2022 projections have set the stage for what will happen in 2023. Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023.