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How to Ditch Paper for Digital Inventory with Mobile Barcoding

RFgen

Why Inventory Should Be Digital. Embracing Digital Mobility for Inventory Management. Tips for Making Your Digital Inventory Mobile. Take the First Step in Your Digital Inventory Strategy. In the meantime, mobile barcoding is a cost-effective value-add for any digital inventory tracking system.

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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.” Have a great week!

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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? We Give to You.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Lately, as I reflected on my conversations with John (fictitious name) when I was at AMR Research, I yearn to go back in time. AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. I would argue to John: no one knows how to drive a step-change in process improvement. Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Reflection.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. As a result, after three months of research, writing the sequel on S&OP technologies is a challenge. Teams continuously balance cost, customer service, asset utilization and inventory. The question central to the research?

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Building A Guiding Coalition for Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Through case studies, research, and facilitated discussion, we will jointly imagine the possibilities for Supply Chain 2030. As we begin the new decade, 2030 feels the same. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030. When I started the event in 2012, the focus was on 2020. ” I find it true.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes. Market-Driven Processes.