ThroughPut

JANUARY 19, 2024

This allowed the company to prioritize those customers and services that aligned with their operational capabilities, sustainability goals and profitability. By analyzing key metrics like travel time, return travel, and time spent on-site, the company was able to make data-driven decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2022

When companies consider implementing enterprise software, standard operating procedure would be to look at a public company’s financials before deciding to implement the solution. If the software company is private, the prospective customer often asks for the right to view their financials. The Rule of 40. The problem?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Supply Chain Excellence as defined by a methodology whereall companies are put into a spreadsheet and compared across industries is meaningless. During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

These tools are now enabling new capabilities to make trade-offs between volume and cost while helping companies to redesign flows and decoupling points. 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.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 5, 2013

Companies spend a lot of time and energy measuring operational metrics, the “what” of supply chain performance, but they generally fail to measure the “how” aspects of performance –i.e., the interpersonal skills of employees that also play a critical role. In this episode, Tracy Maylett , Ed.D,

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As a result, companies are writing new case studies through their actions or inaction. The company needs to focus on the design of flows, building outside-in processes, creating an effective supplier development group, reducing complexity, and driving bi-directional orchestration to a balanced scorecard.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Companies have data lakes, but do not use their own data. I don’t understand why companies want to move data in and out of data jails that we call relational databases but are so unaware of the techniques to use data from data lakes through schema on read technology approaches. technologies. Measurement. I think clearer.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. Your research found that 9 out of 10 companies are stuck.

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Hybrent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Then I’d go back to my computer and go into our old system to make purchase orders for each of up to ten different vendor companies. I’d make them out, print them out and then go to each company’s website and enter my order there, or call or fax it in. Using Hybrent has cut the work I need to do manually to less than half,” says Crow.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

No company interviewed was able to successfully use their current what-if solutions to model pandemic impacts. Companies need an easy-to-use sandbox deployment to visualize supply chain constraints and the impact of variability. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I think that more companies would benefit by getting their COV on … Let me explain. Companies do not have one supply chain, they have many. Most supply chain leaders cannot get their groove on because they generalize–the use of the same metric targets and tactics for the supply chain without paying attention to the flows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supply chains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. Only supply chains that are agile, adaptable, and aligned provide companies with sustainable competitive advantage.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While one might argue that the availability of better data and insights can help companies make better decisions, let me share why I struggle with the analogy. The issues of process latency—a company’s ability to align on data to make a decision—are greater with the heightened levels of disruption. See the pattern?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

History will also include case studies of mergers and acquisitions. No company in the past decade achieved the promised economy of scale. Companies performing the best have three characteristics: Business Model Innovation. Companies with traditional definitions of marketing and sales struggle to beat the competition.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is all about the alignment of metrics and objectives. With so much data available, companies need to delight the customer and take advantage of all the predictable information that they have. This is where companies need to question how to connect and collaborate with customers and partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. I just do not think that you can put companies in a spreadsheet and shake them up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2017

If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric. Some of the strongest case studies of supply chain leadership are in this value chain. In the court of public opinion there is a worldview of ‘who does supply chain best’ Executives usually have a short list of companies they admire.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. In each industry sector, companies face unprecedented variability. I pulled up my covers to go to sleep four hours later.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

In the visibility use case avoid three watch outs: 1) Make Sure That The Data Is Actionable. In many deployments of telematics, companies get visibility on truck status, but the data is an overkill. As shown in Figure 2, many companies do not know the location of second and third tier suppliers. Company Effectiveness Using Data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

As driver pay increases, so does the incidence of drivers jumping ship, switching companies for the next best payday. Deploying driverless vehicles could take a significant bite out of operating costs, considering that approximately 75% of company expenses are tied up in labor. Curiouser and Curiouser. Keep Your Eyes on the Road.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Later that afternoon, I hosted a webinar featuring blockchain case studies. Yesterday, Bristlecone and IBM presented case studies. The case studies focus on cold chain safety/alerting for out-of-condition limits for milk transport in India and the use of blockchain for fresh produce monitoring.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

This case study from Schneider Electric will highlight a framework and the key success factors for implementing visibility and collaboration solutions to gain benefits not just for your organization but for your entire ecosystem of partners. Daniel Kolacko, vice president, global planning, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 28, 2018

Submissions consist of case studies describing your company's supply chain innovation that emphasize innovative and measurable results. Finalists are asked to present their case studies at CSCMP's 2018 EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. You must be a CSCMP member to submit a case study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The company makes highly complex machines at a low-volume. As shown in Table A, the Company ranked 3 out of 12 companies in their peer group on driving supply chain improvement as measured by the Supply Chain Index. The company stuck to a no-tether policy – no battery pack or phone attached to the device. Time to Value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Companies spend millions of dollars to implement supply chain planning technologies to drive insights for better decisions; however, there is a failure to design a work environment to enable success. In many cases, the organization is right to question the answer. Ironic since the company spent millions of dollars on the technology.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Metrics Definition. Each company can send up to three supply chain leaders.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2023

Be sure to measure current order picking metrics, such as: Picking accuracy Picking rate Fill rate On-time rate Travel time You may also need to evaluate other relevant inventory KPIs. For example: Inventory accuracy / error rate Order turnaround / cycle time Cost per order And any other metrics valuable to your operation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Companies that directly connect financial data to supply chain data without creating a feasible plan at an item/location level rate themselves significantly lower on S&OP effectiveness creating higher costs, levels of inventory and order short shipments. The data in Table 1 is from a recent research study. The takeaway?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Companies compete. The definition of the methodology and the final results sit behind the paywall of Gartner (Gartner requires that companies pay for research). This year, the methodology was based on five factors : Peer rating 25% (Supply chain leaders are asked to rate the companies on the list.). Companies celebrate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Today, each company is different, and most are struggling. Metrics Definition.

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Supply Chain Insights

MARCH 20, 2013

Participants of the class will gain insights into questions like: Why are companies stuck on the Effective Frontier’s performance plateau of growth, profit, complexity and cycle management? How do companies use new forms of data like social and sentiment data to listen, test and learn to shoppers, customers and consumers?

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Some of the crucial scenarios that prescriptive analytics allows companies to answer include: What does the customer want? By using prescriptive analytics, companies can optimize their supply chain operations, reduce costs, and make better decisions, ultimately enhancing their overall supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The result of this study was that, when companies embarked on the information system initiatives, organization boundaries become blurring, inter-firm relationship got stronger and this change helped to create the new marketing and distribution channel structure. The concept is more profound and requires the right mindset.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

Over the years, I’ve come across many large, brand-name companies that have been successful by many measures, such as revenue growth and profitably, but when you peeled back the onion on their supply chain processes and capabilities, they were far from best-in-class. From the article: Columbia Sportswear added $415.6

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