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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement. Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results.

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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. Consider the case study of Sleep Number that outperforms in the furniture sector. Build Teams.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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What About the Supply Chain Index?

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, I am finalizing an agreement with Arizona State University to fund a PHD student in statistics under the guidance of George Runger to try to finish the work. We have found that nine out of ten organizations are stuck on their ability to make improvements on both operating margin and inventory turns in the same year.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

History will also include case studies of mergers and acquisitions. It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. There is no correlation between technology selection and balance sheet performance.

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The Journey for Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We We are also finishing up quantitative studies on inventory optimization and Sales and Operations Planning.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered? What Worked.