GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

For shippers, culture and behavior have to change to apply Lean Transportation thinking. The “Them (company leadership) versus Us (shop floor associates)” mentality also needs to change for Lean Transportation to " WE. The 8 Rights To Achieve Lean Transportation Practices. Transportation takes time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

The global pivot is a definition of the point in which the global scale of the company yields gives financial advantage. For most companies, greater economy of scale is possible through the global management of procurement and transportation and local management of sales, manufacturing and customer service. Be Clear on Definitions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It serves as the compass guiding shippers toward efficient, economical, and dependable cargo transport. By crafting a well-defined strategy, businesses can mitigate transportation costs, mitigate supply chain disruptions, and uphold customer satisfaction. At the heart of it all, an effective procurement strategy remains paramount.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

As it takes time for shipping to reset back to ordinary capacity levels and flows, this change impacts rates, and can also influence other supply chain decisions where transportation rates and on-time performance play a major role. The issues of labour and transportation costs, along with capacity, will beleaguer everyone.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As a result, each time someone uses the word, you should ask for a definition. The lack of a common definition of the use of ‘research’ by industry analysts, bloggers, and consortia muddies the market. I also find that the definition of research by each analyst firm and consortia is different.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

” Planning and optimizations are done in many departments within a business, such as supply, manufacturing, distribution, warehouse, transportation, budget, labor, and so on. A second definition is] ‘… the action or process of deciding something or of resolving a question.’ and provide an answer to it.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. Specifically, I will focus on the lack of clear definition of control tower, cognitive computing, connected planning, and concurrent planning. Control Tower.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Another client wants to push the customer-centric concept in his organization, but his definition is to do whatever the customer wants. Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Flipping Book link: [link]. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. Functional metric orientation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. Specifically, I will focus on the lack of clear market definitions of the terms control tower, cognitive computing, connected planning, and concurrent planning.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Reed Deshler , the Organization Design and Change Leader at AlignOrg Solutions, explains, “By definition, an aligned organization is one that optimally syncs the work, structure, metrics, people, rewards, culture, and leadership to strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As shown in Figure 1, at a recent client engagement, there is a strong and clear process definition of the budget process and the lack of clarity and discipline in the demand flows for the supply chain. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Their career paths, their identities, and their comfort zones were steeped in the traditional definitions. Most companies think that they know what this means; but, to be actionable they need definition. This starts by clearly defining the roles of each function, and then focusing the cross-functional teams on the same metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. 2) Definition of Supply Chain as a Function versus a Way of Doing Business. It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. Robots are everywhere these days.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Warehouse Management and Transportation Management were in their infancy. It should not be functional, with a narrow focus on a singular function like manufacturing or transportation. Figure 1: Definition of the Supply Chain Organization. For clarity, let’s start with a definition. Let me continue with my story.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2021

That’s the overview of white glove services evolution and it’s another piece of the transportation terminology puzzle. It’s important to know how white glove services and transportation management go together. They must go beyond the standard delivery in transportation management, and consumers are pushing this trend forward.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

I find most companies are good at pockets of planning–demand planning, supply planning, transportation planning, material planning or plant scheduling, but the flows are not connected. Let’s start with a definition. I find five common definitions: Tight Integration of Transactional and Planning Data. Get Started.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

Starting With Definitions. To help, I wrote a few definitions on the board: Demand-Driven Processes. A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. Definition of Outside-In Processes.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Today is day three of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation , Freight. This year, most were interested in logistics management trends, and transportation - specifically in the last mile and white glove services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2017

Amazon’s because of their breath in physical and digital supply chain, innovation in material handling, transportation, etc and their vision completely disrupting the industry. They are competitive, but there is no standard definition. This year-over-year comparison, enables visualization of performance on two metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The metrics reward functional thinking. By definition, the silos struggle to align. Definition of Horizontal Processes. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results. It enables growth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

While there are some exceptions (Cap Gemini has a strong practice in the implementation of Oracle transportation planning and E&Y has built some great technologies to augment the gaps in APO demand planning, and KPMG has some great knowledge of business networks), in general, big consultants are not good at implementing supply chain planning.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. Demand-driven lacks a consistent definition. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Customer Satisfaction scores side by side with the service level and availability metrics. Predictive analytics feeding scenario planning definitely gives a competitive edge when reacting to changes in the business environment. On-time-in-full performance of suppliers and scorecards where multiple KPIs are combined. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The case studies focus on cold chain safety/alerting for out-of-condition limits for milk transport in India and the use of blockchain for fresh produce monitoring. The current efforts are improving functional metrics and traditional processes. Yesterday, Bristlecone and IBM presented case studies. The webinar was well attended.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. For example, we discovered that transportation and duties are 5x the expense of labor and overhead. Service level is our most important metric. Is it labor?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

To understand supply chain excellence, Abby and I have been studying pattern recognition for industry peer groups at the intersection of the metrics in the Supply Chain Effective Frontier of growth, profitability, cycles and complexity. The Gartner Top 25 methodology, by definition, is biased to reward the high-tech and electronics industry.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

So this section will explain some characteristics of Apple Supply Chain through various metrics and compare them with Amazon Supply Chain. Supply chain professionals also use this metric in inventory management function. In the United States, transportation cost is the big portion of total logistics cost. Inventory Turnover.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2020

Delivering on-time and in-full is essential to success and a metric used by retailers when evaluating partnerships with vendors of all sizes. But first, let’s look at the background of OTIF metrics and why they came to be. OTIF metrics are not universal. Align Production and Transportation Schedules.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The combination of technology along with the advancements in transportation made it possible. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Price to Tangible Book Value. However, globalization comes with responsibility. Network Design Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

While forecast accuracy, if used well, can reduce safety stock, what I find in the study of the global multi-national is the rise of cycle stock due to increased item complexity, and the increase of in transit inventories due to longer freight lanes and longer cycles in ocean transportation. It takes training. However, it is worth it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Ecommerce has changed the definition. As a result, unit picking, shipping and returns is redefining warehouse management and transportation processes. It also requires the definition of listening posts to understand product feedback and ratings and reviews. A shopper wants an each or an individual item.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

GT Nexus is one of the strongest providers of transportation visibility for the global ecosystem. By definition, ERP infrastructure is inside-out. Historically, our approaches have been too limited in scope and definition. Functionally defined definitions from the past decade dictates architectures design. It is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

In this post my goal is to help companies build outside-in processes through a clearer definition. This outside-in orientation needs a definition to make it actionable. Use GPS, maps and weather signals to better predict arrival and route transportation assets. Reflection. Let’s start with the basics. Start with the channel.

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