Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2022

” He replied, “You probably don’t know much about supply chain, but I am leading a supply chain team for a company that sells tools to Home Depot. As he spoke, I discovered: The Company Was Blindly Fielding RFP Process. As he spoke, I discovered: The Company Was Blindly Fielding RFP Process. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

Rise in Inventories. Less Effective at Inventory Management. Inventories grew twenty days over the decade. Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory. Despite spending 1.1%

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

The event is designed to Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Less than five percent of companies are outperforming their peer groups while driving improvement. The analysis is designed to provide Industry benchmarks by peer group and to celebrate the success of 23 companies out of 28 peer groups. The reason? The reason? There are many.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In my work with manufacturing companies recently, I am thinking a lot about the need for diagnostic testing. When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. I am working with a company with issues in delivering customer service. inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In the past study, of 600 companies studied, 4% make a list. This question always makes me smile.

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Arkieva

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It was clear that the stage was set for subsequent discussions on supply chain innovation topics, the direction of the industry in the near future of 2030; and what companies today have to do to stay ahead of the curve. Strength – Inventory Turns & Operating Margin Vector Trajectory (30%). Cross-Functional Alignment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Only four percent of companies outperformed their peer groups. Orbit Chart of Four Industry Sectors at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns (Year-over-Year Averages for the Sector). While market potential declined, individual company performance declined faster. Implementation of Sales Forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

In the sector, the bullwhip impact is high, the inflationary pressures of crude oil prices immense, the variability from energy outages painful, and inventories relatively low. The cash-to-cash impact for debt-laden chemical companies with 2% growth and 4% margins offers little room for error. Focus on right-sizing inventories.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2024

As cars become more connected, autonomous, electric and configured to order, automotive manufacturers are increasingly becoming software companies. Software companies operate much differently than traditional manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. This year, 88 percent of participating retailers reported that the pandemic resulted in an increase in overall risk for their company. Deliveroo opens brick and mortar store in London.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Companies with resilient supply chains had a sustainable advantage during the unprecedented logistical turbulence that emerged during the pandemic. Adjusting to the new norms, companies learnt the need to revise their existing business functions models, reorganise their labour and redefine the roles and skills of their labour.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

To trigger such widespread improvements without harming other areas of the company, manual intervention is no longer an option. Nearly all strategies put forward by organizations, including Carlsberg, come with a 2030 or 2040 asterisk. Connected Automation Automation is pivotal in addressing the speed aspect of sustainability goals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

No company in the past decade achieved the promised economy of scale. Companies performing the best have three characteristics: Business Model Innovation. Smaller, more agile companies outperform the larger and well-known brands in the retail, beverages, food, and pharmaceutical industry sectors. Leadership. Celebrating Success.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

The trucking industry was down 80,000 drivers in 2021, and that shortage is anticipated to balloon to 160,000 by 2030. million by 2030. It’s a global problem. The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. China, which had a worker surplus of 55.2 million to 75.3

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

Being the original author, I laugh when technology companies attempt to explain the Gartner S&OP maturity model to me in briefings.). Manufacturing companies are statistically less satisfied with their S&OP processes in 2019 than they were in 2016 at a 90% confidence level. The Research. . Was it technology? Process definition?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

Schneider Electric has committed to convert its 14,000 fleet vehicles to electric by 2030. Technicolor, which makes high tech equipment for the connected home, found their sales team drove the business but created havoc by entering new requirements or cancelling them too late for operations to keep up, so inventories grew.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Diagram the flows and understand how businesses within the company interoperate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

I wanted to help companies drive step-changes in performance. My argument centered on the observation that as new technologies evolved, companies did a lift and shift. Companies want a definitive Return on Investment (ROI), limiting the opportunity to test and learn with new technologies. The approach was not as profitable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. While companies want to improve supply chain performance and drive value, it is easier said than done. For many companies, improving results is elusive. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

They are not the same, and the delivery of a demand-driven strategy does not mean the company will enable a customer-centric supply chain, or build/implement outside-in processes. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. For most companies it is weeks and months, but can be multiple quarters.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Today, each company is different, and most are struggling. Let me explain.

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Synovos

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The platinum medal puts RS Group in the top 1% of the 100,000-plus rated companies assessed by EcoVadis with each company rated on the material sustainability risks and issues for size, location, and industry. Together, the two form the world’s first MRO supply chain services company with true global reach.

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Synovos

JULY 24, 2023

In November 2021, RS launched its 2030 ESG action plan, entitled ‘For a Better World’, which has four global goals and 15 ambitious actions for 2030. The approach also supports six of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and lays the foundation for the Company’s long-term vision to 2050.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Seeking the next sequel in technology adoption, I want to write how the confluence of new technologies changed companies’ abilities to improve decisions. Not much has changed in technology approaches; and most companies, over the last decade, went backwards not forwards on S&OP maturity. For most companies, this is an issue.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

I had never had a vendor thank me for giving a company a negative review. (I The company is now owned by JDA. During the period of 1996-2001, the company struggled. ” I used to say that companies in the household products sector–Colgate, P&G, and Unilever–built the best supply chains.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With reports of retail layoffs and overstaffing at companies (such as Walmart and Amazon) to cover Omicron-related staffing shortages, it would appear the shortage of workers may be abating. Forecasts by Korn Ferry cited that by 2030, more than 85 million jobs might go unfilled as there won’t be enough skilled people to fill them.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In addition, the much-publicized inventory issues that many retailers are dealing with are also resulting in interest in returns management. Based on surveys that RLA has done in the past year, most returns are handled in-house and are often done in the same distribution centers where store/e-commerce inventory is kept.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This integration ensures the visibility of inventory, efficient order processing, and synchronized fulfilment across all channels. Having clear visibility into inventory is critical for omnichannel fulfilment. Offering multiple fulfilment choices allows companies to cater to diverse customer preferences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

We analyze data for all public companies in thirty-two industries. Becton Dickinson will make our Supply Chains to Admire list in September, but there will be no pharmaceutical company on the Supply Chains to Admire list even though Novo Nordisk and Biogen are making the most progress. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2021

According to BCG , by 2030 annual food loss and waste will hit 2.1 With the misuse of resources becoming a global issue, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals listed a target of reducing food loss and waste by half by 2030. Let us begin with a hard look at some numbers related to food wastage. billion tons worth $1.5

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QAD

MAY 12, 2022

Sustainable business practices are not only good for the environment, they can increase company viability in the long term through growth, global competitiveness and customer satisfaction. The company has also contributed millions to support national parks. Contributions to Manufacturing Sustainability.

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QAD

JANUARY 18, 2022

The global pandemic forced companies to rethink employment policies on the fly, finding new ways to keep employees productive, engaged and, most of all, safe. Companies that can afford to do so have raised pay rates above minimum requirements. India is the only country expected to have a surplus of skilled labor by 2030.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2023

He added that one-third of all medium to large warehouses will have at least one robot platform operational by 2030. In addition, 96% of the surveyed companies are currently or planning to use robotics and 93% are planning to increase the size of robotics fleets.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. . It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

Companies attempt to grow through mergers, global expansion, new products and services, and line extensions. While most companies attempt to shape demand–through promotions, new product launch, pricing, sales incentives and marketing–they confuse demand shaping with demand shifting. The River and The Quest for Growth.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Trillion by 2030. . These demand and supply adjustments are very typical for companies with responsive sales and operations planning processes, including Apple. Trillion by 2030. Tesla alone has reportedly declared audacious plans to be able to build and sell 20 million EV’s in 2030, a 13-fold increase over this year estimates.

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