Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I am also developing a framework for my new book. Orbit Chart for Ecolab at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin Versus the Chemical Industry for the Period of 2010-2019. Manufacturers operate in a constrained environment, and the goal is the automation of the Theory of Constraints theory. Stay tuned.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. (The Order Policy. The use of customer segmentation to determine priority in matching inventory with orders during the order cycle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

I am deep in research analysis of a couple of efforts (wrapping up our first year of supply chain planning benchmarking for ten clients, writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter and finishing some work with a couple of manufacturing clients) that are all telling me the same thing: companies are feeling supply chain pain.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, protectionist trade policies, labor shortages, scaled-down logistics services, and higher-volume direct-to-consumer transactions have increased the cost of ingredients and finished products, left store shelves partially empty, and caused revenue loss. Improved customer satisfaction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. We like the metrics of growth, on-time and in-full orders, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Let me start with a true confession: I am a manufacturing gal. I relished the sound of a manufacturing line when I opened the door of the factory in the morning, and I liked managing inputs so that we could maximize outputs. Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. It is now part of my DNA.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Companies can win with an IT standardization policy. Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

The projected mineral supply until the end of the 2020s is in line with the demand for EV batteries in the ‘stated policies scenario’ of the IEA’s world energy model. USPS reflected the impact of PSRA on its books as a one-time, non-cash benefit of $59.6 Thanks to that boost, USPS posted net income of $59.7 That’s all for this week.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 16, 2013

Inventory mismanagement. Ingrained attitudes can block better inventory practices. Depending on which corporate silo you belong to, inventory can be a liability, an asset, or something in between. How do supply chain (SC) professionals overcome these biases and implement optimal inventory management solutions?

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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. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. Foreseeing the pricing factor on the demand side is vital for organisations to address pricing policies. fashion, automotive, spare parts, airlines). Agility and visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2020

We’re going to decouple completely from China, dramatically cut back on sourcing from other countries, and bring manufacturing back to America, right?”[1] ” He continues, “Fast forward to today, JIT has morphed into lean manufacturing with its resulting organizational streamlining. economy and American society.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the closing of the third quarter, the numbers once again signal added contraction in global manufacturing output as product demand levels weaken. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. The reported September PMI reported value 49.1 value reported for August.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Excessive costs can hide anywhere in your company’s service provision or supply chain functions, including manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and customer service. Supply/Inventory Management Inventory management problems and supplier relationship issues , too, can creep in over time and eat away at your profit margins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Dealing with the talent shortage in emerging economies will redefine human resource policies and industry consortia programs. Within manufacturing companies, with business process outsourcing, as the number of supply chain leaders decreased , power shifted to financial teams. Redefinition of Talent. It is time to make a change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

I find that the path to building an end-to-end value network usually goes through five distinct phases: improving transactional efficiency, data sharing, formulation of policy, building relationships and engaging in joint value creation. It needs to be reliable, consistent and based on profitable policies.

Sourcing Strategies 150

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

This could indicate manufactures are expecting to reduce production and are, therefore, ordering fewer raw materials. Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

This includes: new product launch forecasting, seasonal inventory targets, demand affinities, push-based inventory strategies, demand shaping activities (price, promotion, run-out strategies, sales incentives, trade incentives), and turn-based volume. The automotive manufacturer had a surplus of green vehicles that no one wanted.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In the exponentially growing E-Commerce market place customers expect, and demand, a hassle free returns policy. They will check out the returns policy before making a purchase. They will go elsewhere if there is not an easy returns policy and practice. Working in the Book Retail Industry was an eye opener for me.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 26, 2020

The main purpose of carrying inventory is to provide your customers with the goods and services they expect, when and how they expect them. Businesses make significant financial investment into inventory to facilitate the running of their business, for the purpose in which that business exists. What is inventory risk?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Nada is co-author of the book HUMACHINE besides plenty of other books. A similar idea that Nada describes in her book HUMACHINE. Google’s Cassy Korzakov already had her DI definition in this blog from 2019 , and Lorien Pratt published the book Link about decision intelligence in that same year.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Twenty years ago, Joseph Pine published a book titled “Mass Customization.” This movement was focused around manufacturing; the thesis was that the days of mass production were over and that the new world would operate with lot sizes of one while at the same time achieving the leverage advantages of mass production.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

Most, but not all companies, have ensured that their manufacturing know-how and secret sauce have remained inside their American engineering teams, but some may have had to relinquish control and exposure to those important day-to-day production details. Loss of manufacturing know-how is a loss of leverage. Manufacturing.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

These questions are predicated in large part on the ideas promulgated in “ The LIVING Supply Chain ”, Tom’s previous book. In this book, he emphasizes the importance of material being in motion. When it is not in motion, it is classified as inventory. But these must also allow local flexibility.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But alternative models are emerging, including distributed manufacturing enabled by robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D-printing, distributed intelligence brought about by the internet of things and distributed labor enabled by the internet and mobile devices. Companies can clearly make a dent. Organizational models.

Supply Chain Software 100

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 15, 2021

In the first stage of the pandemic, many automotive manufacturers reduced their orders, anticipating a downturn in vehicle sales. I describe them in my latest book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19. Companies need to think about how they are going to address this challenge.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Friedman went on to articulate that transit times to move inventory from Asia to the U.S. Regarding claims that the supply chain would have recovered by now: “ I’ve never seen it so chaotic, honestly, from an execution point of view, whether its construction, sourcing, manufacturing, shifting supply chains or freight.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As I explain in my book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, October 2015), companies can improve their disruption detection capabilities in a number of ways. Companies can then prioritize their mitigation efforts based on parameters such as value-at-risk, customer importance, and field inventory.

Metrics 67

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The staff at Supply Chain Quarterly notes, “Twenty-three years after Internet retailing giant Amazon.com started selling books online, more and more companies are seeing significant growth in the direct-to-consumer market. Today there is a lot of focus on reshoring manufacturing. and Peloton Interactive Inc., ”[3]. .”

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This is based on a book I wrote about five years ago which developed a set of future predictions on what will unfold in the biologics and pharmaceutical supply chain, (based on hundreds of interviews with executives). Examples of services wholesalers provide to manufacturers: Sophisticated ordering technology. Inventory management.

Pharmaceutical 40

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

Manufacturers may recall stock because of flaws or to replace older products with newer ones. They may recall inventory from retailers or reprocess it because it has passed its sell-by date or demand is insufficient. Procter and Gamble developed its ‘zero returns’ policy a couple of decades ago.

Reverse Logistics 40

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Getting the Service Policy Right. One of the fastest ways I know to burn money in Supply Chain management is not to have clear customer service policies or to have service policies that are poorly implemented and communicated. 3) Don’t have a one size fits all customer service policy. 5) Manage the policy.

Cost Reduction Strategies 40

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In his book, Where Good Ideas Come From , Steven Johnson writes about how this breakthrough may have been more impactful than radiology, heart surgery or such medical advances. What particularly struck me in Johnson’s book was his description of the inventive methods developing countries have used to adapt the incubator design.

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