Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. Tipping points are fascinating to watch. What Is Value?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. They lack alignment. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This includes 3D printing, robotics, the Internet of Things (IOT), Sentiment Analysis, Cognitive Learning, and Supply Chain Operating Networks using canonical many-to-many data models. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. When there is a common reporting strategy, progress in metrics performance at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns is faster. The goal was efficiency. This is a sign of organizational maturity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. In this period, a combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence on future profits, and speculation in individual stocks, made investors overlook traditional metrics in favor of confidence in future technological advancements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

” When I first started working on the book Bricks Matter , I believed it too. After two years of studying corporate balance sheets and talking to supply chain leaders, I now see things quite differently. Which supply chain metrics correlate to market capitalization by Morningstar sector? Results of the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

Sit back and listen as companies share insights on the adoption of robotics, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, manless vehicles, new forms of analytics, and the emergence of new business models like Alibaba, Amazon, and Uber. Join us for a critical view of supply chain 2030 through the insights of leading economists. We give to you.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

It is for this reason that I have defined market-driven value network processes in the book Bricks Matter. Some supply chains also have inputs from the evolving world of the Internet of Things where machine sensors transmit frequent streams of data. Demand in the demand-driven network is about much, much more than forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2015

I would encourage you to read the new book, out now, titled The Lenovo Way –Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance. Yolanda Convers and Gina Qiao wrote the book and it does a great job mapping our journey. The design of the culture has been deliberate over the course of the last ten years. There are no excuses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. In the building of global supply chains, in the last decade, across value networks, outsourcing to third-party logistics, and contract manufacturing accelerated. A Critical Review of the Contract Manufacturing Model. There are many reasons.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Internet of Things (IoT) brings more connectivity in the supply chain network to advance visibility and agility to the logistics and supply operations. fashion, automotive, spare parts, airlines).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

It includes Internet of Things, Digital of Everything, and Commerce of Anything. IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

Instead, companies link suppliers to multiple signals: manufacturing production plans; distribution requirements; and current inventory positions, to help suppliers better plan for supply. Each year we organize the best-read posts in a more readable format and publish a softcopy book. Supply Chain Visibility and Supplier Connectivity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

However, companies mature in the concepts of demand know that each order has latency–the time to translate market take-away into re-order points through the channel to the manufacturer. The automotive manufacturer had a surplus of green vehicles that no one wanted. Yes, the manufacturer made more green Volvo cars.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Or is it the use of the Internet of Things to transform manufacturing or reduce issues with counterfeiting? This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). The opportunities are numerous. This challenge to the status quo is uncomfortable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The Internet of Things. In this blog post, I will apply this methodology and discuss the potential redefinition of three digital processes: Digital Manufacturing, Digital Path-to-Purchase, and Digital Agriculture. Or did the machine fail in the digital manufacturing process? Digital Manufacturing. 3D printing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

I am a manufacturing gal by training. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. Sit back and listen as companies share insights on the adoption of robotics, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, manless vehicles, new forms of analytics, and the emergence of new business models like Alibaba, Amazon, and Uber.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. Planning data is time-phased data, and sensor data (like Internet of Things and RFID) is streaming data. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As Price to Tangible Book Value (PTBV).

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

The caller had prior experience with a major household products company and recently transitioned to a smaller, but global discrete manufacturer. 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.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2016

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our last post covered the Top 5 Manufacturing blogs of 2016. We have already covered the top 6 trends for 2016 in manufacturing. Read More About the Metrics for Supply Chain Here.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is that time of year again where we feature the most viewed articles on the Cerasis blog in each of the six main categories we write about: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. . Most Read Manufacturing Articles of 2015. Powered by the Internet of Things & Digital Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The traditional manufacturing job defined the middle class. Each time, I turn on the channel, manufacturing jobs frame the global debate. Ironically, as global manufacturing jobs decrease, there is a need for talent for the global supply chain. Price to Tangible Book Value. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

He explores the trends in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things but also realizes that these technologies will never reach their full potential when the basic prerequisite of collecting data hasn’t been met. Mobile apps can generate reports and monitor performance metrics. Dr Julian Stephens. ScienceSoft.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. One thing to keep in mind about who qualifies for consideration is that only big public companies are included in the rankings, and by “big” we mean they need to have sales of $12 billion or more. Media Image. transactionID.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We have also featured on our blog over 90 guest bloggers featuring voices from experts in all of the five main categories who have talked about such subjects as the Skills Gap, Reshoring, Technology, Innovation, STEM, the Maker Movement, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain, the Internet of Things, and much much more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Manufacturing is core to the middle class and a healthy economy. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. Digital Manufacturing: We have been trying to finish a research study on digital manufacturing for ten months. e-commerce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

While regional supply chain teams could focus on operational decisions–deployment, DRP/MRP logic, and finite planning/scheduling within manufacturing, and transportation routing–global teams must get good at tactical planning globally to drive synergies. Process Integration Across Functions. New Business Models. Supply Chain 2030.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And since so many aspects of supply chain management affect both customer experience and financial metrics, supply chain innovation efforts need to take these factors into consideration too. However, competing on customer experience without taking a financially-disciplined and informed approach can be a recipe for failure.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

This should tell us if the supplier values those things our organization does and provide some measure of present competency and direction and investment in future competencies. Dave Munson @saddlebackbags Dave Munson is the founder and CEO of Saddleback Leather and of their leather factory, Old Mexico Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

As I closed the book, and prepared to go to bed, my mind raced. I read Chapter 17 in the book on the difference in productivity impact of the two industrial revolutions many, many times. The effect was primarily on office productivity and entertainment, but not on manufacturing. Admittedly, I am a geek. This resonated.

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QAD

APRIL 8, 2021

Similarly, data has been around for ages, starting with early Sumerian and Chinese writing systems, throughout centuries of data in printed books and since the 20 th century in digital form on our computer systems. That is why libraries were built to store books, allowing scholars to easily access the information they needed.

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