The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Andrew Lynch and Joe Lynch discuss the true cost of OTIF failure. About Andrew Lynch.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Our preliminary findings suggest that supply chain resilience has been increasing in importance over time, but still remains secondary to the end goal embedded in the perfect order metric – the right product, to the right place, at the right time. However, supply chain resilience is more than just a concept to practitioners. More to come!

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

Now Gartner reports that SCP BPO is gaining traction ( Market Guide for Supply Chain Planning BPO or BPaaS, 29 July 2019 ), particularly in North America and Europe. Companies moving to BPO in these practice areas are experiencing supply chain improvements in metrics such as inventory turnover and customer service. versus $4.84

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. Prior to joining Starbucks, he worked at the executive leadership level in Europe, Latin America and North America at ICI, a global chemical company. How do you define the metrics that matter?

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Logility

JANUARY 14, 2020

Year after year, survey after survey, forecast accuracy continues to be one of the top metrics for measuring supply chain performance. Hear from Citizen Watch America, Clarios, Finish Line, Haggar Clothing Co., Smithfield and Tillamook County Creamery Association.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Source E2open Shipping Index). Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Source E2open Shipping Index). Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982. Focus on Cost.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics. The Effective Frontier.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Andrew Lynch and Joe Lynch discuss the true cost of OTIF failure. About Andrew Lynch.

Cost Reduction Strategies 147

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

This segment also distributes a broad range of non-Cardinal branded products and provides supply chain services to hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers in North America. The medical segment’s supply chain consists of 61 North American distribution centers and 27 global manufacturing plants.

Supply Chain Planning Software 175

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 20, 2019

Now Gartner reports that SCP BPO is gaining traction ( Market Guide for Supply Chain Planning BPO or BPaaS, 29 July 2019 ), particularly in North America and Europe. Companies moving to BPO in these practice areas are experiencing supply chain improvements in metrics such as inventory turnover and customer service. versus $4.84

Supply Chain Planning Software 136

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Stord

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Stord’s performance metrics in servicing Veritiv were 99 percent or higher for on-time pickup, on-time delivery, tender acceptance, and invoicing accuracy. “It Serving customers in a wide range of industries both in North America and globally, Veritiv has distribution centers throughout the U.S.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“Procurement and supplier management have become a central part of supporting strategic priorities for organizations – whether it’s helping to mitigate disruption or improving ESG metrics,” added Saric. Effective supplier management will be agile enough to identify disruption and the impact it will have on suppliers and take action.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

294 manufacturing facilities produced more than 90 million metric tons of food and beverage in 2021. But in North America, distribution is predominately through their company-owned fleet. There are continuing efforts to reduce the weight of their tractor and trailers in North America. The new contract with ADM is a 7.5-year

Supply Chain Design Software 188

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The winners drove long-term value (measured by market capitalization) while outperforming on the portfolio of metrics shown in Figure 1 and driving improvement faster than their peer groups. Celebrating Success. Target Setting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

It is now our fifth year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies are outperforming their peer groups on the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while driving improvement. This is the fun part of my job. This work is not easy. For greater insights, see Table 2.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Year-over-year Improvement at the Intersections of the Metrics. It is for this reason, that we are hard at work on the analysis of the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series of reports.

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synchrono

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s when they can find their way around The Mall of America without a directory. Built in 1992, The Mall of America still ranks as the largest in the US with more than 500 stores, just about every kind of restaurant you can imagine, and last but not least, the 7-acre Nickelodeon theme park. Planning Your Lean Journey.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 15, 2018

The $7.5bn Kemper power plant once drew officials from as far as Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway to marvel at a 21st-century power project so technologically complex its builder compared it to the moonshot of the 1960s. It’s promise? Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars Wrigley chose Transplace, now UBER Freight, for North America and a partnership with Maersk/E2Open for ocean freight. Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution. 95% is very high performance on this metric; It implies significant transportation cost savings. Planners are far more efficient.

Supply Chain Planning Software 207

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

To make the list, companies out-performed their peer group on operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital while driving significant improvement in financial metrics over the period.Supply Chain Improvement is based on a detailed analysis calculated factors for balance, strength and resiliency. Learn More. LogiPharma.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2015

America, there is a growing need. It’s simple; it is a need to efficiently and effectively measure, track and monitor the right metrics to better manage, control and optimize costs. In the volatile and ever changing domestic transportation market in N. What is it? It sounds very simple, but in truth there are complexities.

Metrics 100

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Chris’s primary research covers all aspects of freight transportation including combinatorial procurement auctions, robust planning, portfolio management, performance metrics, and infrastructure design. Cassandra Gaines.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 147

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 26, 2018

Oxfam America examined the treatment of the women, farmers and food-sector workers and many big grocers fared poorly. Tesco Plc ranked the highest in the first-ever study of supply-chain policies from humanitarian group Oxfam America released on June 20, leading in transparency and worker-treatment metrics. Jumbo Group Ltd.

Food 81

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 3, 2023

Luciano Sieber, Vice President of End-to-End Supply Chain for North America at Colgate-Palmolive, sums up the need to recognize and master volatility: “Resilience has a clear definition at Colgate: thriving in a world of uncertainty.” As a result, we’ve seen a 10% increase in service metrics.”.

Supply Chain Planning Software 93

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative. Corporate ESG Reporting Today .

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

These three headlines from Transport Topics and Food Shippers of America magazine tell the story of one of the most important challenges facing shippers in North America leading into 2018. The bellwether metric – spot rates – are pegging the meter. Here’s the story and the solution to the mounting challenge.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. At each round, employees gain an understanding of the value of supply chain decisions through the sharing on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The seven on-line classes are: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. How does it help? Training.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Now, it’s also important to realize that produce grown in North America may not be subject to lockdowns in Shanghai, but there’s another factor at play. Yes, all parties have metrics and KPIs that help them know when to switch carriers or where to throttle ordering, but that’s not acceptable to customers.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

PDF, no opt-in) Youichi Nonaka, Senior Chief Researcher, Hitachi R&D Group and Sudhanshu Gaur Director, Global Center for Social Innovation Hitachi America R&D. Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Lab, Hitachi America Ltd. Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Lab, Hitachi America Ltd. PDF, no opt-in) Chetan Gupta, Ph.D. Date: Sept.

Manufacturing Procurement 42

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. This is 15 days longer than the same quarter last year and an additional five days than the previous quarter. BE READY FOR THE NEW NORMAL.

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

Minor Figures is likewise localising its supply chain as it expands: “One of the strategies we have been using to be able to keep pace is to localise supply chains,” Ben says, “So we’ve now got manufacturing in Australia, we’ve now got manufacturing in North America, and we’ll expand that across to another site in Europe as well.”

Supply Chain Planning Software 98

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

The recent uptick of sustainability bonds from global companies like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and most recently Amazon sends a strong market signal that focus on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer just a trend – it’s the new business imperative.

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Freight Plus

APRIL 16, 2018

Freightwaves reports. , "Freight trucks are the lifeblood of America's consumer economy—they represent 70.9 Wages continue to rise for America's truckers as the trucking industry contends with driver shortages coupled with an increased demand for shipping services.". percent of the nation's freight by tonnage shipped and 81.5

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

XPO Logistics to Acquire 3PD, the Largest Provider of Heavy Goods, Last-Mile Logistics in North America. Oracle Delivers Transformational Capabilities with New In-Memory Applications for Oracle Value Chain Planning. HighJump Software Acquires Evenex. SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 130

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” McKinsey & Company analysts, Jacomo Corbo, Oliver Fleming, and Nicolas Hohn, note that reinforcement learning was used in advance of the 2021 America’s Cup yacht races to improve boat design and performance.

Supply Chain Design Software 200

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

A total of 137 respondents completed the survey from Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics Service Provider, and other companies in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Is customer experience a supply chain metric at your company? Absolutely, it’s where we line up all of our key performance indicators.

Innovation 100

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