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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The result? The reason?

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ToolsGroup’s COVID-19 Action Center Offers Support for Swift and Efficient Response to Supply Chain Disruptions

ToolsGroup

BOSTON (May 5, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today announced a new online COVID-19 Supply Chain Action Center and resources to help companies quickly respond to Coronavirus risks and speed supply chain recovery. It gives you great visibility of the whole inventory.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. Companies entered the pandemic with twenty more days of inventory than at the beginning of the great recession. I began analyzing correlations of groups of metrics to market capitalization and found that the most significant correlation was between market capitalization and growth.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Vendor Managed Inventory processes–once hailed as the panacea of demand sensing–largely operate in isolation within sales organizations (of the thirty-three organizations that we interviewed last year, no market leader has connected these demand signals). It was a cold, crisp winter in Boston.

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Supply Chain at Your Fingertips

Logility

Bryan Ball highlighted the top disruptive supply chain trends including the increasing speed of business, talent and training, and measurement and metric alignment. Bill Nienburg outlined Under Armour’s bold and aggressive supply chain strategy, built on 4D collaboration with a multi-dimensional data-driven processes.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Short cycles require buffer inventories and short lead times.

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Navigating Disruption in MedTech

QAD

The medtech industry association, MassMEDIC, recently held a “Virtual Supplier Showcase” event. Joanne: “Abiomed delivered over $1M worth of PPE to local hospitals in the Boston area and we continue that line of communication and support to this day. How did you work together to serve and deliver products that were needed most?