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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? My second observation is that for 96% of public companies supply chain excellence is slip-sliding away. Reflections on Excellence. Tom Peters. Here, in this blog, I explain.

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Orbit Chart Comparison of L’Oreal and Estee Lauder. To understand the extent of the achievement, note the comparison to their industry peer group in Table 1. The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere.

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What Does Good Look Like S&OP?

Supply Chain Shaman

Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Most companies buy decision support technology, but do not redefine work to improve decisions. Over the last decade, as companies became more global, more and more meetings were added to the calendar to manage the S&OP process.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. Popular Beliefs on Supply Chain Excellence Do Not Align With Results. .

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The sad fact is that most planners spend six to seven hours a day in meetings and struggle to get timely information. Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? in inventory value.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Job satisfaction wanes as the days filled with an endless cycle of meetings, with many not useful.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Q3 is a tough quarter: the list of companies failing to meet revenue guidance will continue to grow. The question is, how can a company not meet guidance? The market tolerates an underperforming company that meets guidance more than a top performer that misses guidance. For this blog post, never mind the comparison.