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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The result? The reason?

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. It turns out the Super Bowl happened on February 12 th in Glendale, Arizona. Many of those forecasts are not produced by demand management solutions but require other applications or tools. Doing this, increases the benefits.

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

To demonstrate, one California autonomous vehicle company, TuSimple, tested the efficacy of long-haul driverless vehicles in a recent trek from Nogales, Arizona to Oklahoma City, shaving 10 hours (42%) off of what would otherwise be a 24-hour trip. Keep Your Eyes on the Road.

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Public Markets Reward Supply Chain Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

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 build a useful tool that could help companies irrespective of size or geographic location. I wanted to better understand which metrics truly mattered.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

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. We named it the Supply Chain Index. Our aim was to maintain a 3 to 3.5

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With New Year Underway, Key Players Look Back On 2022

Intelligent Audit

As rates continue to fall, industry metrics are beginning to reflect a new reality for the transportation market. for December, marking the metric’s fastest decline ever recorded. Walmart now offers customers drone delivery service through these vendors in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. .

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. There are too few people in the world who are really knowledgeable about inventory management software tools. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion. At first when you read this recommendation you might say, “DUH!?”