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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

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. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.)

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

What’s more, bots don’t require paychecks, benefits, vacations, training or other workforce overhead. You can also build metrics to support your hiring practices, making sure you’re paying drivers what they’re worth to inhibit churn, enhance acceptance rates or stem the tide of driver turnover. Keep Your Eyes on the Road.

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Three Years. Where Has It Gone?

Supply Chain Insights

Nine out of ten companies are stuck: unable to make progress on a portfolio of supply chain metrics. The simulation game is tied to the work we are doing with Arizona State University’s Operations Research group on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Public Training on the Digital Supply Chain. We want to help.

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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Pick five-to-seven balanced metrics and hold all functions accountable to these corporate metrics. I strongly believe that conventional training on historic functional processes is not sufficient. Next week, in Arizona, 120 supply chain leaders will be meeting to network on the Future of Supply Chain 2030.

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Supply Chain Shaman

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. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

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Will that be automatic or semi-automatic to manage your supply chain?

Kinaxis

by Christopher Hatcher Years ago when I was in the army, one of the most memorable days of my mostly forgettable BASIC training experience was flipping the switch to automatic. Like most training in the Army, the thought was that if you do it long enough it would become ingrained in your psyche and muscle response.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

” 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. What I loved in my experience with the Schneider team was the focus on building teams and internal training. The question was, “What mattered?