Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

But how do companies best translate strategy to action? Most companies, along with consultants, feel that they know the definition of supply chain excellence. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

For the past month, I have been working alongside companies implementing digital strategies. In most companies, I find, that there is an organizational imperative, but no consensus on the goal. Instead of pushing innovation forward, I see companies using the term “digital” as a path for IT spending. ” Incrementalism.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. . The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2016, attendees were encouraged to think about the past, present and future of their businesses from a fresh perspective as they gained insights into the latest analytics and optimization technology.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Soon thereafter, the genesis of #ThankX was born: Concierge Community Couriers (based in our very own Philadelphia)!

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed. Amazon is clearly not the only company making plans for the upcoming holiday season. The company’s operating profit rose to $2.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 10, 2018

“someone must have their mojo working over at the record company” In the 1990s supply chain had MOJO. 90% of public manufacturing companies are treading wate r. Improvement on the key metrics of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is elusive. Then it was sexy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

In addition, to spur growth, companies are quick to add products to the item master, but slow to rationalize the portfolio. In 2014, 70% of companies experienced three business discontinuity events with at least one resulting in a material impact to the balance sheet resulting in financial reporting. This is significant.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. Each company has a different format and working definition for each of these data elements. Each company has a different format and working definition for each of these data elements. The reason is simple.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

The planners in this study work for companies that have deployed (what I consider to be) the most mature demand and supply planning instances in the world. In Figure 1, I share an analysis of user satisfaction of demand, tactical supply, inventory and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) technologies using this technique.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. Cross-Company Academy is a 7 month online training course, Bootcamp is a 2 day in-person training course.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

It is finally spring in Philadelphia. I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We For most companies, there is confusion on the charter.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

I am deep in research analysis of a couple of efforts (wrapping up our first year of supply chain planning benchmarking for ten clients, writing reports for the Supply Chain Insights newsletter and finishing some work with a couple of manufacturing clients) that are all telling me the same thing: companies are feeling supply chain pain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. The processes are very different by company. While many consultants argue on the name–the debate rages with strong arguments of “Should it be Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP), or consensus planning?”–the

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 21, 2022

This is why freight shipping is the best value for safely forward stocking heavy and bulky inventory to guarantee 1-2-day nationwide delivery. Full truckload (FTL), also known as TL, is ideal for customers moving enough inventory to fill an entire truck, while less than truckload (LTL) shipments are too small en masse to require a full truck.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The innovation you need today will not come from large consultants or technology companies. Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service. Locate them in an innovation center, not a function.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system. Last week, it felt like August not May.

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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 Insights

JULY 23, 2017

At this time of year, we find many companies planning workshops to stimulate thinking on building a digital supply chain and igniting next-generation supply chain thinking. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Summer is ending. Forge a strategy?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

However, at a practical level, companies struggle with the implementation of strategy due to a lack of definition. In my work with organizations, I ask companies to be patient and remember that we are on a journey. Today, while companies speak the words of end-to-end supply chain management, there is functional quagmire.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the six months ended October 31, 2021, the Company reported operating earnings of approximately $4.5 The overall financial condition of the Company remains strong, with cash and investments of approximately $111.3 During the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, the Company paid shareholder dividends of approximately $3.7

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. Over time, companies acquired assets. This is difficult for the average company since only one in two supply chains have source, make and deliver reporting through the same organization (reference Figure 1). The year was 1985.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At LogiPharma 2019 in Philadelphia, Deepak Ghodke, Vice President, Bristlecone Labs, spoke about how it is, therefore, not at all surprising that the increase in AI adoption has also extended to enterprises in recent years. to gain real-time visibility, traceability and utilization analysis of inventory, assets and products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Over the last decade, each company took a different path to power global growth. These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Facing flattening volumes, the Company failed to regain supply chain momentum post recession.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Most companies fail before they succeed. While companies have deployed large planning systems, Excel ghettos have popped up in most organizations. In many companies, SAP has a lock on the decision processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

These were once strong companies with bright futures, but they were rigid and inflexible. As growth slows, and global-infrastructures mature, more and more companies worry that they too will make this list. Companies need shorter product cycles with easy customization. Each company defines it slightly differently.

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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

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Most companies fail before they succeed. When companies reward fire fighting, they never get good at planning. While companies have deployed large planning systems, Excel ghettos have popped up in most organizations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Now, the company has announced that it is expanding its same-day, Prime delivery service to 6 more US cities. Amazon has invested in what it calls “mini-fulfillment centers” closer to where customers lived in select US markets, initially in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 16, 2023

The conference content included both the vision for these capabilities in the broader Körber offering, as well as presentations by companies that utilize this platform in conjunction with other Körber products, such as one of its warehouse management systems. And future investment spending includes 14.4

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That history also explains the current state of the “barcode industry” – especially for manufacturing, distribution, life sciences and wellness, aerospace, and food and beverage companies. For an in-depth look at current industry trends, download our 2022 Digital Inventory Report: A Brief History of the Barcode. Those would come later.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2020

’ Robotics and AI will cause a serious ‘double-disruption,’ as the coronavirus pandemic pushed companies to fast-track the deployment of new technologies to slash costs, enhance productivity and be less reliant on real-life people. ” McKinsey & Company, 30 October 2020. [5] “[1].

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. Labor is an important input with 50-60% of employees of the company reporting through supply chain organizations. Most companies say that employees are an asset, but treat it as a cost. Is talent a cost or an asset? The results?

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