Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I also believed that this company would have the best inventory and customer service. It is one of the primary reasons why nine out of ten manufacturing companies are stuck at the intersection of operati ng margins and inventory turns.” My favorites are customer service, operating margin, inventory turns, and ROIC.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2016

I was traveling from Northwest Arkansas airport (XNA) back home to Washington Reagan (DCA) and this alert put me into panic mode because I had to be at my home office for an important customer call the following day and knew there were limited flights available. And so has the supply chain.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” The best way to address unforeseen delays (such as we have seen with the pandemic) is to ensure that you have buffer inventory.

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