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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. Today, I am going to share five insights that I have gleaned from our work on Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com.

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4 reasons not to miss the Quintiq World Tour

DELMIA Quintiq

It’s great to hear about new [disruptive] technologies, do some benchmarking and understand how companies have executed these technologies. Robert Meyers , Planning Manager Americas, BP Lubricants, Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2014. Lora Cecere , Supply Chain Insights, Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2014.

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Reduce Costs: Invest In Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Due to popular demand, we are kicking-off an organizational benchmarking effort. Our goal is to have companies participating in this benchmarking study to share insights with each other in a networking session in a facilitated share group in January 2018. Mark your calendars for September 4th-7th. We hope to see you there.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Benchmarking. The first step to building a guiding a coalition is benchmarking. We are offering three types of benchmarking: planning, financial and organizational. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Here we share some insights.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. The original AMR Research analysis focused on a benchmarking sample of over 70 companies. The streets below me today are icy and wet. It is a dark and dismal day. However, not for long.

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Planning Software: Insights on User Satisfaction

Supply Chain Shaman

In the recent research that we have just completed on supply chain planning benchmarking, we surveyed 430 planners. And, let us know if there is interest to participate in our benchmarking efforts in 2015. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September.

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Three Tough Headlines: What Can We Learn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. We are also working on the design of a new experiential learning game to help teams understand the value proposition of outside-in processes (think new-age beer game), and kicking off Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking Analysis for 2014. I am recovering from bronchitis.