Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

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. I called the customer service line for the manufacturer and was told that the only thing I could do was call a maintenance specialist. Customer Service Failure. Internet and Cable Issues.

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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

MARCH 4, 2013

Abby and I are writing an e-book on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. To write the book, we have been analyzing twenty years of supply chain financial ratios and looking at the trends. As I look at the preliminary analysis results for the e-book, I see many parallels to my triathlete experience. Measurement.

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Unleashed

APRIL 29, 2024

Work in process (WIP) inventory is typically found in manufacturing environments where goods undergo various stages of processing before being sold or used. Tracking WIP inventory is important for monitoring production efficiency, identifying bottlenecks, and managing costs within the manufacturing process.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

It is data driven research: a deep analysis of performance, improvement and Price to Tangible Book Value of 320 companies across 31 industries for the period of 2009-2015. Check out their performance by plotting year-over-year metrics at the intersection of two ratios and look at the patterns. Background. What Drives Value?

Pharmaceutical 110

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Special programs—new product launch, promotional packaging, and samples—are often managed as marketing programs using offline processes (usually spreadsheets). Background. 4 Maximize Buffers.

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Unleashed

MAY 2, 2022

These are the 10 most crucial metrics for SMEs – so you can get started on reducing inefficiencies and cutting costs. Using inventory performance metrics can lead to: Happier customers – who get what they want, when they want it, at the price they’re willing to pay. There are a lot of inventory performance measures you could track.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I wanted to write a celebratory book on why the adoption of new technologies and practices in supply chain had improved corporate performance. ” I heard this time-after-time in my interviews for the book Bricks Matter. But the data could not support the promise. Encompassing.

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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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Unleashed

MAY 20, 2024

UK & US manufacturing sectors shrink as costs rise, new orders fall. Unstable market conditions, client destocking, and the Red Sea crisis – in combination with the rise of average purchasing costs – are responsible for the recent drop in manufacturing PMI , according to data provider S&P Global.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. It is important not to confuse those metrics with the circular economy.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

by Jeswin Philip The Food Packaging Trends and Advances report from PMMI forecasts that the US Food and Beverage industry will experience a 2.9 % CAGR through 2022. As with any industry, food and beverage faces its own unique set of supply chain challenges, including: Expiring ingredients, manufactured product and packaged goods.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2023

This Distribution Operations Assessment tool can be used by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Principal Corporates, and distributors themselves to gain insight into materials management and logistics knowledge, identify gaps in skills and knowledge, and foster critical thinking and self-awareness.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

Within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, digital twins have potential uses for optimization, simulation, decision support, root cause diagnosis, reporting, alerting, and serving as a data repository for training machine learning (ML) models with a much broader data scope.

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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.

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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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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. Download our E-Book on Supply Chain Sustainability and Profitability with Green Logistics. Manufacturing : An essential aspect of sustainable supply chain manufacturing is monitoring energy consumption as a function of production volume. Green packaging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

Ten years ago, Amazon was an online book retailer, yet today a family can buy a wide variety of items, including groceries with next day delivery. The traditional metrics within each silo are a barrier. We are currently only registering manufacturers, retailers and distributors. There is growth in e-commerce pure plays (e.g.,

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In process manufacturing BASF, L’Oréal and The Clorox Company. In discrete manufacturing those are Apple, Cisco, Coopertires, Cummins, Edwards, Steelcase and Tsmc. Similarly, industries like beverages, contract manufacturing, food, oil and gas, restaurants and fast food, and retail apparel have finalists, but no winners.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cost of sales is an inventory accounting metric that measures the accumulated costs in getting finished goods to market. The cost of sales metric is most commonly used in the retail and eCommerce industries, whereas manufacturing businesses typically calculate profitability using the cost of goods sold formula instead.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. We produce there because the regulations say that you need to manufacture there to sell there. Service level is our most important metric.

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Locus

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Minimizing risk : By keeping unscrupulous suppliers and manufacturers at bay, businesses can protect themselves from reputational damage. At the same time it can improve accuracy in order dispatching , easily prioritize and filter batches, and speed up packaging, shipping and last-mile delivery. Book a demo with us! Sources: ??

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

I was moving from a position where I led a manufacturing operation to being a part of a team to design supply chain software to improve planning decisions. I was moving from the world of manufacturing to a new world of software. The technology world moves at a quicker pace than the world of manufacturing and distribution.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Bristlecone

AUGUST 17, 2020

In the 2018 book Factfulness , Swedish statistician and author Hans Rosling, together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund, suggest that the vast majority of human beings are wrong about the state of the world. Giriraj (GK) Sharma, Associate Vice President, Bristlecone. Beyond 2020.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. Retailers can no longer have their heads in the sand, but neither can consumer products manufacturers. Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. Also note that beauty, consumer packaged goods and food growth is also declining.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 15, 2013

Although, many of the competing brands offer enticing software packages and hand-over-foot support services the leading TMS solutions each guarantee: User friendly, reliable and state-of-the-art programming. IBM Sterling TMS package. Pitney Bowes Package Management System.

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated annual greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reporting for organizations emitting over 25,000 metric tons of GHGs per year, and those in specific industries like vehicle manufacturing and industrial gas. Scope 3 emissions would result from making, manufacturing, and building this equipment.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

manufacturers found that 60% of the companies operating in China are considering moving operations to other Southeast Asia countries in the next few years. Load Building – the ability to optimally configure transportation units (containers, airtainers, small packages, etc.) A very recent survey of U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. With a strong manufacturing culture, much of the focus was on lean production systems. In 2013, I wrote a post on the “two bookends of supply chain excellence in consumer packaged goods.” Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. New Bookends.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 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

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2017

Supply chains were halted, production was backed up, raw materials orders and payments were delayed, and the books could not be balanced. In fact, already we see initiatives led by both retailers and CPG manufacturers where this is happening. And it’s coming around the bend for consumer packaged goods. Go one step further, then.

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Arena Solutions

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Internal audits are vital for companies that manufacture consumer electronics, medical devices, biotechnology, and other industries that develop highly complex products. Engineering and manufacturing companies face a staggering amount of disruption, daily challenges, supply chain issues, and competition. 1 Why do an internal audit?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. When Kellogg had smelly packaging liners in their cartons of cereal in recalls of 2010, it would not have been a normal question for search. It was not adequate.

Pharmaceutical 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

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? 3) Digital Manufacturing What improves the life of equipment? 4) e-commerce.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. As I worked for and was involved with various enterprises over my career, some manufacturing, some service related, retail, etc. A group, eligible to comment on the current state of S&OP.

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