Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my research, I find that the lack of alignment has a direct impact to value (operating margin and market price to book value). Functional Metrics. This maniacal focus on improving functional metrics threw the supply chain out of balance and made the organization less able to work together to solve issues.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Let me just state for the record that “Saying that you are going to write a book, is far more exciting than writing one.” Writing the book is helping me to get perspective. It is tedious. I find it easier to write in the winter.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Movement solves for this by empowering AI agents to clean data, then communicate and act at the operational level, including booking shipments and performing complex reroutes, all while keeping stakeholders informed. This extensive connectivity has resulted in impressive metrics: 1.2

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Instead, we found that the companies with the lowest total supply chain cost (a total of source, make and deliver) had average costs in manufacturing and distribution. We are a month away from the publication of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter.

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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. We enjoy writing them!

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Are you looking for logistics management books? In this article, we will show you 5 books that'll help you learn logistics faster than any other logistics book. Logistics Book Ranking Factors To provide the book recommendations, first, we collect the name of the books that appear on Amazon.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages.

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 13, 2013

Book Review - Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy. The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the book " Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy " and explain how it can help you to create sustainable supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

In this article, we rank books based on their influence, popularity, recency and practicality and then we come up with the list of the best supply chain books. Finding Best Supply Chain Books We've found that most recommendations for on the web are based on just personal opinion. A number of citations of the books are collected.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

He recently wrote a book titled, “How the World Ran Out of Everything.” I would like for us to move past the conventional view of sourcing strategies and globalization to drive improvements to the supply chain in a variable world. The populist narrative of sourcing globalization is only part of the story. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Sitting waiting for a confirmed booking.) The focus of planning is volume not value, and leaders struggle to change and embrace bi-directional orchestration to capture the price/volume trade-offs between source, make, deliver and plan. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. This is unprecedented time.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process. It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Forward-thinking organizations have transformed the department into an untapped gold mine that creates value for the entire end-to-end manufacturing process—from design and sourcing to production and delivery. Our latest e-book, “ Is Manufacturing Missing Out On Procurement’s Value Add? Here are some key insights from the e-book.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 12, 2017

Madhav Durbha I recently read this very interesting book, “Be the Business: CIOs in the new era of IT” by Martha Heller. In the book, the author made several very interesting observations about how the role of a Chief Information Officer is changing in the age of cloud computing, personalization of tech, and the rise of shadow IT.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” COVID impacts also continue. Don’t Be Like Ford.

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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. Publication of our next book. This analysis has been fun and insightful.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China. Some components are currently obtained from the single or limited sources. So this section will explain some characteristics of Apple Supply Chain through various metrics and compare them with Amazon Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I cavalierly penned a chapter on the evolution of supply chain thinking from cost to value. I found this out the hard way when Keith Harrison , contributor to the Forward of the book, asked me to define what I meant by ”value.” What Is Value? It sounds simple, but it is not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 9, 2013

I was writing the book, Bricks Matter and I wanted a better definition of Supply Chain Excellence. This research was the backbone of the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter series of reports. Instead, they have measured functional metrics or focused on projects. It started at my kitchen table. The Building of the Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 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. The source data for the analysis is public reporting of balance sheets and income statements. The Supply Chains to Admire analysis is now in its third year.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

However, the logic Cisco uses to manage the disruption is very robust and details are summarized into the infographic below, Note: metrics data is for illustrative purpose. Cross-functional team, part standardization, back-up suppliers, dual-sourcing, supplier collaboration are the basic foundation that is tried and true. Discussion.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Each customer in US or EU might already control the source of raw materials, ask you to provide dedicated production lines, nominate 3pl companies and air/sea carriers. 7) Adopt Both Service and Financial Metrics. 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time. 3) Align Demand Planning Across Supply Chain. A Case Study.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Why advanced technologies such as blockchain , AI, and the IoT get a lot of attention, but that focusing on real-life solutions to issues like labor shortage, safety, and capacity sourcing instead of wasting so much breath on disruptions that won’t take place for decades is more productive for those who work in freight.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2017

To achieve Stage 5, S&OP must be “a fully integrated business planning forum… (where) metrics are value-based and aligned across the network and enterprise to support the required trade-offs.”. Gartner’s research is echoed by Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights. Finance and supply chain spoke the same language—the language of success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are a portfolio of metrics which correlate to higher market capitalization. Value, i.e. Price to Tangible Book Value (PTBV). Performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

According to Kurzweil’s new book, nanorobots may be the key to stopping human aging and letting us live for thousands of years. The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 But now, scientists are saying that the fountain of youth could be a reality, but just in a very different form.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

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. A Supply Chain Leader will make progress on both of these key metrics with a very tight and controlled pattern. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). 5) Design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The metrics reward functional thinking. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is writing her third book, Leadership Matters.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Ive seen KPI “packs” the size of phone books, and even KPI sets circulated as a monthly magazine that no one reads. Unlike most of the KPIs we recommend, perfect order is a composite of several elementary metrics. Aside from applying the SMART acronym, my basic take on KPIs is this; Dont have too many! What about DIFOT?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2017

Traditionally, the focus has been on building efficient organizational silos for make, source or deliver. As a result, tor most companies, the goals are unclear and the financial metrics are not well-understood. This year-over-year comparison, enables visualization of performance on two metrics. Overview of the Methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

With the rise in complexity, most Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are going backwards (inventory turns, ROIC, operating margin and growth). Open source needs maintenance. With the evolution of open source software, be sure that the solution that you are purchasing can be maintained and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. Instead, I think that it needs to be holistic to balance the trade-offs of source, make and deliver together. (I know… I am showing my age.). Let me continue with my story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader. Based on our research at Supply Chain Insights , today, 34% of supply chain organizations have source, make and deliver reporting through a common organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The metrics shown in Figure 1 are difficult to improve together. Most companies improve singular metrics but are not able to drive portfolio.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

When source, make and deliver report to the same organization, progress is quicker. The company that plays to win does not strive to have the best manufacturing costs, or the best procurement practices; instead, the team focuses on winning together cross-functionally on a commonly held portfolio of metrics.

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