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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. Analyze Past Results in Customer Service. We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The source data for the analysis comes from Ycharts.). It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. Long-term balance sheet improvement requires a focus on a balanced scorecard and the alignment of sell, deliver, make, and source to drive value. Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Teams continuously balance cost, customer service, asset utilization and inventory. For most –hamstrung by silo-based strategies for source, make and deliver–there is no clear definition of supply chain strategy. The combination of cloud, cognitive computing and open source analytics is evolving.

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Coming soon to a supply chain near you: 8 big digital disruptors

Kinaxis

Taking things beyond just smart shelves and cameras, robots are already roaming the aisles of select stores, doing their part in ensuring quality and great customer service. Key points: Create new opportunities to improve customer service with robots. Simbe Robotics’ Tally is one such retail robot. Autonomous vehicles.

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Maximize One of Your Greatest Assets: Yard Operations

BlueYonder

The end-to-end logistics network represents a big investment for companies — as well as a key source of competitive advantage. billion by 2030 , reflecting an annual growth rate of 11.26%. Yard optimization also pays off in terms of better customer service, which drives repeat business and future revenues. Valued at $3.1

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

Supply Chain Insights

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Research. We can help by testing customer satisfaction and sharing what matters by channel partner. Customer Centric Policies. Please click her for additional information.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. Short cycles require buffer inventories and short lead times. source Moody’s). Let me explain.