Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

As an analyst in the market for the past ten years (first with Gartner, then with AMR Research, followed by my work at Altimeter Group and now with my own firm Supply Chain Insights), I have stood in front of clients doing strategy days advocating “best practices” and I wanted to set the record straight. We have stubbed our toes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

They came to Boston to tell us the story of Llamasoft. I smiled as I began to present the story of the “Metrics that Matter.” ” I was excited to share that companies that more actively design their supply chains outperform against their peer group on the Supply Chain Index. As I listened, I began to reflect.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 26, 2018

Jumbo Group Ltd. Tesco Plc ranked the highest in the first-ever study of supply-chain policies from humanitarian group Oxfam America released on June 20, leading in transparency and worker-treatment metrics. based human-rights advocacy group. Grocers including Walmart Inc., and Whole Foods Market Inc. and European Union.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

My travels this week took me to California and Boston. I will meet with a small group of supply chain leaders to discuss analytics and supply chain organizations at the Shaman’s Circle on Amelia Island and I am preparing to do a focus group session for Elemica early next week. Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia.

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

Bryan Ball highlighted the top disruptive supply chain trends including the increasing speed of business, talent and training, and measurement and metric alignment. Read SC Digest’s full review of the Under Armour keynote: Under Armour’s Athletic Supply Chain.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. It strained production functions and increased the need for trucking services, which led to falling performance metrics that rippled across organizations.

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EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to Boston Consulting Group , those asset managers likely to take advantage of data, machine learning, and AI are will more likely thrive in the future. The 551 million metric tonnes of CO 2 emissions reductions that were logged by suppliers worldwide via CDP in 2017, led to cost savings of some $14 billion.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 24, 2020

Descriptive analytics includes examination of the preceding (or historic) data to figure out developments and estimate metrics over time. A joint study done by Boston Consulting Group and Google found that “CPG companies can generate more than 10% revenue growth through more predictive demand forecasting.” Descriptive Analytics.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

v] A Boston Consulting Group study found that companies with more diverse management teams have 19% higher revenues due to innovation. The Hackett Group found that companies that allocate 20% or more of their spend to diverse suppliers can attribute as much as 15% of their annual sales to supplier diversity programs.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” Today, I know of less than twenty-five companies that actively sense demand, and while we talk about the use of channel data and the building of demand sensing processes to use channel data, it is still an elite group of supply chain leaders that are perfecting the techniques. It was a cold, crisp winter in Boston.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 1, 2019

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. It helps organizations improve fundamental business metrics such as productivity, product reliability, quality, safety and yield, while reducing downtime and lowering costs.”[3]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

A “100-page-plus document was filled with “supplier shall” statements that detailed FedEx’s obligations and outlined dozens of metrics for how Dell would measure success. Language like ‘supplier shall’ and pre-defined performance/penalty metrics are classic terms within buyer-supplier agreements.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

From a survey of 1000 executives worldwide, they identified a group of supply chain leaders who exhibited customer-centricity as one of four traits leading to more effective, resilient, and better-performing supply chains. Boston: Springer), pp.413–422. Oxford Economics & Sap. www.oxfordeconomics.com pp.1-15. Olhager, J.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Currently, she is COO and Head of Customer Success at Solvoyo, a leading supply chain planning and analytics SaaS company based in Boston. Nil has also been an active member of women’s professional networking groups, advocating for women’s leadership roles in the technology and entrepreneurship fields.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

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. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Sorry to break the news.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A little digging into Fremont reveals that companies such as Tesla, Lam Research, and Boston Scientific are among the top employers in the city, which may explain why so many patents have ties to the 235,000 people who make up America’s 98th-largest city. . The Northwest came in second, remarkably close to the West in every metric.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Because an ERP system provides a comprehensive view of a company’s operations, it can be used for tracking and reporting on ESG metrics. On the other side, changing regulations may penalize unsustainable practices and companies may be forced to move away from non-sustainable activities. 5 ways that ERP plays a role in ESG?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I was hoping for 70F+ weather, but even Florida fell victim to the Polar Vortex, with temperatures only in the 50s (which felt tropical, nonetheless, compared to Chicago and Boston). I woke up at 2:15 am on Wednesday and couldn’t fall back to sleep. I don’t know what I did, but on my way out, I somehow managed to get the duck mad.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

Boston Consulting Group executives, Lars Fæste ( @Lars_Faeste ) and Antoine Gourévitch ( @AGourevitch1 ), insist, “Leveraging the power of fresh, granular data for business success is becoming a question of life or death.”[6] And these sensors are producing data at an unprecedented rate.”

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

McKinse y, Cap Gemini and the Boston Consulting Group all suggest digital transformation is about applying digital technologies [such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain] to operational processes and creating improvements.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

They also lack process controls and metrics. It’s only been a couple of weeks since I wrote that convergence in the 3PL industry is accelerating , pointing to the number of large M&A deals announced in recent weeks, including UPS buying Coyote Logistics and Geodis Group acquiring Ozburn-Hessey Logistics. Some things never change.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Forming strategic partnerships with a select group of your best suppliers can allow you to capture a wide variety of benefits—including the potential for scale advantages and priority service.” ” — Customer-Centric Supply Chain Transformation , Boston Consulting Group; Twitter: @BCG 34.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Reed Deshler , the Organization Design and Change Leader at AlignOrg Solutions, explains, “By definition, an aligned organization is one that optimally syncs the work, structure, metrics, people, rewards, culture, and leadership to strategy. A more dynamic culture. Corporate alignment starts at the top.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Debbie Lentz @RSComponents Debbie Lentz is the President of Global Supply Chain at RS Components and the Electrocomponents Group. I think it’s about two things: raising awareness and getting in front of new groups of people in order to get new talent through the doors, and then providing high-quality training to increase retention.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The pilot called air traffic control in Boston and reported: “We don’t have a problem as of flying-wise but we need to return, return back to New York. beverage industry paid $2.175 billion in Section 232 tariffs on 10.295 million metric tons of aluminum since their implementation. We cannot get the horse back secured.”

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