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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Over the past two decades, organizations have become more insular and less willing or able to share meaningful data.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Build a supply planning master data layer to capture supply variability of inbound receipts, conversion rates, yield, run-rates, and other variables. Current approaches result in black hole automation and bullwhip amplification.

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What Makes a Mature Planning Organization? (Part 2)

Supply Chain Shaman

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. They also are clear that the supply chain is defined outside-in based on the channel requirements and the underlying rhythms and cycles of fulfillment, manufacturing and procurement. Metrics Alignment. They lack cohesion.

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The Top 10 Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2017

GlobalTranz

We want to make sure that supply chain practitioners, as well as manufacturers, understand how all of these technologies are affecting the entire supply chain, including the supply chain & procurement side of a manufacturing operation. Omnichannel Supply Chain Metrics: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Measure?

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Water is as Important to Some Industries as Electricity

Enterra Insights

Transition to adaptive policies that enable NbS across infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction. Harness the power of technology, including AI and big data, to identify new water growth opportunities. Generate guidance to improve NbS impact metrics for water security to demonstrate the multiple values of water.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Management Fault Line

Supply Chain Shaman

This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Stalled progress on metrics: 90% of companies find themselves stuck on key supply chain metrics (cost, inventory, growth, ROIC). Companies have focused on labor outsourcing and third-party solutions to reduce headcount. The result?

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Supply Chains in Recovery Mode: Forcing C-Level Focus on Digitally Transforming Their Supply Chains for 2022 and Beyond

BlueYonder

Followed by focus on big data analytics where companies began leveraging BI (business intelligence) tools for data-driven decision making. Transport costs are soaring to ridiculous levels, especially for those shippers that did not have an organized procurement strategy for freight movement.