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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Last week, I shared a preview of the results through a webinar broadcast.

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Why I No Longer Believe in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and chemical companies are close behind, but they are having difficulty “taking the hill.” Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.

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Mush

Supply Chain Shaman

Take the chemical industry. The reason is that as a chemical company, they must run assets, and the methodology penalizes companies with deep asset strategies. As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. I find value in looking at these metrics together. They have shed their assets.

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Talk Doesn’t Cook the Rice

Supply Chain Shaman

It will be launched during a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a series of reports that will run in our May newsletter and throughout the summer. However, we have found that only a few companies are improving the potential of their supply chain to balance supply chain metrics. If you are interested please register for the webinar.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, at Supply Chain Insights , as part of our monthly webinar series, I hosted a panel discussion on the current state of the healthcare value network. Hosting this webinar series is one of the favorite parts of my job as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. Here is an on-demand link to replay the healthcare webinar.

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Announcing the Supply Chain Index

Supply Chain Insights

It will be launched on a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a report that will run in our May newsletter. To understand supply chain excellence, we 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.

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