Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. After six months of analysis, we decided the best fit was the combination of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Most companies have made their own organizations more efficient (ROA), but they have not reduced inventories and they have pushed costs back in the supply chain on suppliers that are less able to bear them. Look at the gyrations of Boston Scientific and Eli Lilly for the same period of time. This has made the supply chain more fragile.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The ODM’s in Taiwan have a single tech park where they all started. You didn’t have to add designers, and they leveraged the fact that they designed phones for other people, could do it quicker, and would leverage that, and would get their money back through manufacturing in a low cost environment. What good would that do us?

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Bristlecone

MARCH 23, 2020

They are the last stop in the consumer products supply chain and typically, it’s an industry rife with channel inventory. The clothing and mid-market fashion goods sector relies heavily on China for fabrics like cotton and silk, as well as China’s manufacturing capabilities. All the big OEMs like Apple, Dell, HP, Qualcomm, etc.,

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