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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

Here I share insights on how to get started using a four-step process. To accomplish this goal, I ask a cross-functional group to audit the past year. As a group, we drill into root issues. Many times useful data exists in marketing or sales groups, but is not shared with the supply chain team. inventory turns.

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The Big Sigh

Supply Chain Shaman

He was also unaware of how to measure Forecast Value-Added, the Bullwhip impact and the health of inventory. I quickly wrote a “how to guide” on a scrap piece of paper, suggested some consultants to help him with the analysis, and sent him home to define “what makes a good plan.”

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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

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). The focus is not on who but on how to improve outcomes. Does functional ownership matter?

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I would argue to John: no one knows how to drive a step-change in process improvement. Reflection.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Leaders start by answering the question, “How to design the supply chain to drive unique value for customers?”

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

Most of the concepts were new to the team; and while the group had discussed many of the ideas at a high level, they had not been able to take the conceptual ideas into implementation. I asked the group to think of demand-driven concepts as the enabler of customer-centric strategies. As a result, there were arguments. Channel Sensing.

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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. Get Clear on How to Make Decisions. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. At the event, technologists and business leaders work shoulder-to-shoulder to Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Governance.

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