Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. But more importantly, few see demand as a process to be managed through lean processes of disciplined analysis of demand shaping/shifting analysis, backcasting, improving models and driving FVA improvements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

For a more detailed analysis, check out the Power point summary.) Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. I admit it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Lack of executive buy-in.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

While I was preparing for surgery, Gartner released the Gartner Top 25 Analysis. The analysis is now in its ninetieth year. The Gartner analysis is biased toward companies within the Gartner network. Semiconductor Industry Analysis Would you feel better about your results if you were Intel or TSMC? The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So, I smile, catch my dinner partner’s eye and ask, “In our prior conversations, you mentioned the lack of clarity on the definition of supply chain excellence in your current deployments and how this is a barrier to implementing supply chain planning properly. Armed with this analysis, you are ready to take the next step.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Need For What-If Analysis. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Here are some examples: Manufacturing: Lowest manufacturing cost, Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and Asset Utilization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. To navigate complex and fast-paced markets, an agenda of spend analysis is introduced as a part of the procurement function. From whom are we buying? In what quantities are we buying?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. Ed argued that instead of buying new packaging equipment that we should work with R&D to have a base flavor and add the color and flavoring at the head of the machine. Strong manufacturing organizations do not make the most effective manufacturers.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data-driven forecasting improves purchasing and cuts storage expenses. IoT sensors monitor various parameters like temperature, humidity, and equipment status, providing valuable data for analysis and predictive maintenance. To maintain operational excellence, establish feedback loops between staff and management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. The manufacturer pays maintenance for the planning software but stops contact with Company A. Here are my recommendations: Buy Software Like You Manage A Relationship.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel. A successful plan requires design, collaboration, simulation, what-if analysis, and closed-loop learning. What do we learn through gap analysis? ” Does the Dog Hunt? So, does this dog hunt?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have also learned that you need a large data pool to derive the type of analysis that I want to publish. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks. Instead, I would look at network flows, the form and function of inventory, cost-to-serve analysis, and the determination of the supplier network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied. These solutions require greater insights and understanding by the manufacturer and implementing company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party. days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. The key is that an excellent digital supply chain strategy starts with a clear goal rather than a list of technologies. For many tech providers, the message often becomes a religious argument. Who has the best approach?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). We have built transactional buying relationships. Yes; someday it will happen, but not any time soon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Check out the full analysis, for over 600 public companies by peer group in Supply Chains to Admire report.) At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing. From a manufacturing perspective, products vary significantly in complexity. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. To solve these problems, AGCO partnered with Proceedix to develop an application for manufacturing.

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IQMS

MAY 15, 2024

Navigating the intricate web of modern manufacturing can feel like participating in an elaborate puzzle—complex, with lots of moving parts and a grand strategy that need to fit into a complete picture of the business. For midsize manufacturers, finding growth in a competitive landscape is a delicate balance between strategy and execution.

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QAD

APRIL 7, 2022

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running. Purchasing is also required to buy goods at the lowest possible price, consistent with quality and delivery needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. This analysis needed to be completed monthly and fed to newer forms of inventory optimization technologies.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence. However, they create an unbeatable duo for procurement excellence. This allows procurement professionals to base their decisions on hard evidence rather than intuition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These include problems where centrality, connectivity, and path analysis play a key role in the analysis. ” I believe that the focus should be improving reliability (Forecast Value Added (FVA), first pass tender and yield, and manufacturing schedule adherence) while decreasing process, demand, and data latency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. You got it! A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

These can be shift in the channel, issues in manufacturing, increasing variability in transportation, or a shift in commodity prices. There are seven primary agility levers: Analysis of Form and Function of Inventory: Form of inventory is the decision of what form to hold the inventory in: raw material, semi-finished good or finished good.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Only 2% of companies are pushing forward in our Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) Regional companies outperform global brands in all but two industries in the market. And how do we measure it? (Is

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. 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 disagreed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Based on the analysis, I no longer think that this is true. This includes the automation of path-to-purchase for consumer products, active shaping of demand through price, channel incentives and promotions, eCouponing and mobile commerce for retail, and product proliferation for all. Growth is slowing. Something that no one wants.).

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QAD

JANUARY 23, 2025

This is the year that AI stops being just a buzzword and begins to evolve into an operational imperative for manufacturers, retail and supply chain companies. For manufacturers, early deployment can also open the door to monetizing the data they generate, especially when it comes to B2B sales. The global DaaS market was valued at $14.36

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. Based on the Supply Chains to Admire analysis, the first question is: Why do the cost reduction strategies not translate into operating margin improvement against peer groups?

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

But there is good news: a convergence of process, data, and technology provides the real-time and predictive visibility needed to optimize supply chain planning, ensuring food manufacturers can build resilience now and for the future. Planning Manufacturing Based on Demand. Preparing for Market-Driven Demand.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability. A monthly analysis is a good starting point. Example View – Reorder Point Analysis Why is Reorder Point Analysis important?

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