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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor day also signals the end of summer, and for many supply chain leaders the beginning of 2017 strategy discussions and intense S&OP debates to finalize Q3 and Q4 planning. Analytics Techniques for Supply Chain 2030. Pick five-to-seven balanced metrics and hold all functions accountable to these corporate metrics.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. The game is designed to simulate an S&OP environment. At each round, employees gain an understanding of the value of supply chain decisions through the sharing on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. How does it help? Training.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of trip to Atlanta to connect to Peru, we began a discussion. ” Steve’s response was fascinating and enlightening. I related to Steve’s story of death by a thousand cuts. 21 versus P&G’s.19 Let’s take the case of Cisco Systems. He introduced himself as Steve.

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S&OP: Five Steps to Get Started

Supply Chain Shaman

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. In the course of the cycle of building content–research, writing and speaking–I get many questions. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” How do I get started?”

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) Look for the full report next week.).

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

…for 8:00 AM strategy meeting(s) with clients.) To use the Barnes example, in this blog post, let’s focus on simplicity. Let’s start with a definition. Companies with a deep focus on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) will often default to this definition. What is integrated planning?