Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. Why do we spend four months doing this? We aim to move companies from a cost-based agenda to drive value in their supply chains. Reality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. I wanted to better understand which metrics truly mattered. However, as many of you know, I am stubborn. I wanted to know more. I hungered to know the patterns. Definitions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Supply Chain Improvement is based on the work that we completed with an Arizona State University Operations Research team to determine the Supply Chain Index. Enlightened leadership that focuses on the management of the supply chain as a complex system. Aligned Metrics. This is what I think works: Leadership.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

The Supply Chain Is a Complex System with Increasing Complexity. As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. I find value in looking at these metrics together.

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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.

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W. Chaturvedi: So far this year, Ohio, Arizona and Tennessee have seen the most job announcements associated with reshoring. Carey School of Business. Resilinc: What’s the current status of reshoring manufacturing?

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While progress was indicated against key business performance metrics, investors prompted a reported 25 percent decline in the company’s stock value. Rivian Automotive Last week, Rivian Automotive reported on the fourth quarter and full year financial performance that disappointed company investors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During The Index is a methodology developed by Supply Chain Insights LLC, in cooperation with the Operations Research Team at Arizona State University (ASU), to gauge supply chain improvement. It needs to be managed holistically as a system.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In July, TSMC had to postpone the plant opening in Arizona until 2025 due to labor shortages. This is part of a larger dilemma across the industry—is it better to build new fabs or renovate aging fabs ? Both are costly and time-consuming endeavors. Labor shortages are also causing factory disruptions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Companies say that they want to build the end-to-end supply chain from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier, but the investment is primarily in enterprise systems. It is a slow week. Most of my friends are on vacation. It is tedious.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization. Tight integration of decision support to ERP introduced nervousness into the complex system called a supply chain, decreasing resilience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity. Notable exceptions making improvements at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin are companies like Carlsberg, Cisco Systems, Hershey, and Novo Nordisk. This week, I published an in-depth analysis on the topic. Tracking Progress. Finance needs education.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. As an ex-AMR Research analyst, this was my favorite venue.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I believed that the first generation of supply chain systems would improve operations to a greater degree than actually happened. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. For me, this has been discovery. I am sorry.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

“Steady progress is being made though, aided by web technology that helps companies share information, systems integration for seamless supply chain handoffs, and perhaps most importantly, by the fearlessness of pioneering organisations. Now, supply chain officers are getting in on the strategic decisions that are being made.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. I want to help. My energy is high.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory. Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

To give you an idea of what this is doing, the classic retail metrics, “same store sales” and “sales per square foot”, are no longer being reported by Macy’s department stores. This is largely driven by the emergence of e-commerce, and in the process, is turning traditional business models on their heads.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In their world view, the future would be the coalescence of robotics, learning systems, and voice automation. Their expressed a worldview of digital printing, collaborative economy and automated systems has major ramifications for the supply chain. Supply chains are complex systems that need to be adaptive. I feel their pain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

The system sports six pairs of stereo cameras, powered by a pair of Nvidia Jetson modules, offering a full view of its surrounding. Its GPS guidance system, coupled with geofencing, keep the system on track for initial tasks, such as tilling. That could certainly help farmers keep their growing on track.

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