Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) The analysis was too short-term. A potential value of a digital twin.).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Failure to effectively filter, prioritize, and analyze data can lead to “analysis paralysis,” where data volumes hinder timely decision-making. Implementing connected fleets requires a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis to assess how long-term savings and improved productivity align with these initial expenses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He is responsible for driving strategy, customer engagement, and industry analysis. Shippers, brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for trends and data insights based on a database of $150 billion in annual market transactions. Prior to joining DAT, Adamo led the pricing and decision science teams at FedEx.

Optimal Sourcing 246

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2025

Enhanced Promotions and Events Analysis Promotions, advertising campaigns, and trade events are vital components of marketing strategy, but accurately measuring their impact on demand remains challenging. Five Ways Advanced Machine Learning in Demand Planning Is Improving Forecasting 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Cost-to-Serve Analysis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you answer the survey, I will gladly give you a custom analysis of your organization against the peer group. In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations. Functional Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A shift from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard. I like the use of growth, margin, inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital, customer service and ESG metrics. The focus on functional metrics sub-optimizes balance sheet results. Instead, focus on Forecast Value Added analysis. Funny, isn’t it? The reason?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 11, 2025

Conduct Comprehensive Financial Analysis Demonstrate tangible ROI by highlighting: Projected revenue improvements Cost savings Return on investment metrics Performance during market volatility Real-world data shows probabilistic forecasting can improve forecast accuracy by 15-25% compared to traditional methods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 2, 2025

For my long-time readers, you know that fewer than 3% of companies outperform their peer group in our Supply Chains to Admire analysis , and that the Gartner Top 25 is essentially a beauty contest for underperformers. But, as the dust settles, is there value? And what is value? Supply chain leaders love bright and shiny objects.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions. billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My goal is to convince you to ground supply chain processes and technology implementations in data analysis while tying the results to the improvement in corporate performance. As a result, the need for measurement, data analysis and clear understanding of supply chain strategy increases. What do I mean by science? The So What?

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Arkieva

DECEMBER 4, 2024

KPIs: More Than Metrics – They’re Tools for Change was first posted on December 4, 2024 at 11:02 am. Learn how to design effective supply chain KPIs that drive organization change, align teams, and improve performance with actionable insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Need For What-If Analysis. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics. In most organizations, there is a dashboard of functional metrics that shows all of the functions operating in the “Green” or acceptable levels until it comes to customer service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. The analysis covers the period from 2010 to 2019. The analysis covers the period from 2010 to 2019. The analysis includes over 700 companies across 28 industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

For a more detailed analysis, check out the Power point summary.) I find in the orbit chart analysis that 45% of companies in the report are unconsciously incompetent. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?” Today, we published The Supply Chains to Admire for 2023. be careful.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The analysis includes: Forecasting Factors Impact Areas Historical Sales Data Inventory Levels Seasonal Trends Demand Patterns Market Conditions Supply Requirements External Variables Risk Assessment Sophisticated algorithms process these factors to generate precise inventory requirements, optimize stock, and reduce carrying costs.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

Inventory Management The key starting point is implementing proper ABC analysis, and you need to look at it from multiple angles. It’s not enough to just categorise by product groups; you’ve got to dig deeper into line item analysis. Distribution Network Distribution networks need regular health checks to stay healthy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

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). A focus on functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2025

Neil’s post in response to my post of Driving Value From Outside-in Planning : In her post, ‘Driving Value from Supply Chain Planning’, Lora Cecere provides great supply chain analysis and benchmarking for her supply chains to admire.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Over the last month, I have been working on the 2019 Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The source data for the analysis comes from Ycharts.). We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The Supply Chains to Admire analysis is six-years-old. Click the link to see the detail.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

For the past eight years, each spring, I have spent six weeks deep in the analysis of spreadsheets evaluating the corporate performance of supply chains by sector. In the analysis, we use this balanced scorecard to evaluate ten years of performance. The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. With the global e-commerce market predicted to reach $8.1

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I am delving into COV (coefficient of variation) analysis. It is for this reason, that I use COV analysis to type logical supply chain flows. Most supply chain leaders cannot get their groove on because they generalize–the use of the same metric targets and tactics for the supply chain without paying attention to the flows.

Optimal Sourcing 300

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 25, 2024

Pattern recognition is the ability to discern patterns in data and use the insights for further analysis. The use of orbit charts allowed me to see the patterns of performance at the intersection of metrics over time. Wikipedia In 2014, I was exploring methods to publish what is now the Supply Chains To Admire report.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. Our analysis shows that 67% of the Gartner Top 25 companies underperform their peer group on growth, 44% on operating margin, and 41% on inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2017

If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric. While we agree that each of these companies are leaders with significant contributions to the industry, we do not find these companies outperforming when compared against their peer groups on a balanced portfolio of metrics. What can we learn from the analysis?

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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. It takes us three months and two full-time research assistants to finish the analysis.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 7, 2025

First, a sophisticated analysis and decision-making process, that incorporates real-time data and requirements.

Inventory Reduction 156

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency. Efficient supply chains strengthen collaborative relationships through automated communication systems and shared performance metrics.

Sourcing Strategies 96

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. I don’t care what you call it, but network design, what-if analysis, simulation and digital twin approaches grow in importance.) Tougher than most understand. Steps to Take Here are three steps to take: Adaptive Modeling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Agility relies on having this kind transparency at your fingertips, through concurrent planning, so you aren’t waiting on analysis and a report from a link up or down the chain. Scenario analysis allows you to weigh alternatives by calculating the effects of possible changes.

Supply Chain Visibility 331

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Resilinc

MARCH 26, 2025

Where Resilincs Supply Chain Technology Excels Spend Matters’ independent analysis provides valuable insights into our platform’s capabilities. The Numbers That Matter One metric from the Spend Matters analysis stands out above all others: our 9.0 customer satisfaction score.

Supply Chain Risk Management 91

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Bristlecone

MARCH 26, 2025

However, key stakeholders emerged outside official rolesindividuals not tagged as SMEs or change agentswho played critical roles in driving change impact analysis and influencing key design decisions. interviews) with quantitative metrics (e.g., In the IBP case study, initial appointments of change agents were based on formal roles.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, what KPIs, as metrics and indicators derived from the set of plans are taken into account and prepared for each scenario. This also considers elements of predictive and prescriptive analysis and in-memory processing. Technology for Effective Planning.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Production Capacity Analysis While traditional testing methods can be time-consuming and offer incomplete data, focusing on key production metrics within the manufacturing process provides more actionable insights. Consider these essential metrics: Asset Utilization: How efficiently are your machines being used?

Material Savings 92

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics. Listening posts use sentiment analysis based on unstructured text mining. Example of Social Sentiment Analysis. Companies are drowning in data, but struggle to get insights. These are all great candidates for listening.

Supply Chain Design Software 339

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The analysis, based on network optimization assumed average loading, and did not account for the swings. The metrics were not aligned. Map the different metrics and incentives in the organization to behavior. They were not aligned on the role of the distribution as it tied to supply chain excellence. You have to do so.

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