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Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison

MIT Supply Chain

The TTPI rates countries based on five main categories: driver labor market and training, procurement practices and market structure, transportation cost structure (variable vs. fixed), innovation in trucking practices, and public policy toward developing national transportation systems. including owner-operators.

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Side-step Oxymorons to Make Progress in Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Definitions: Oxymoron: The combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness) Juxtaposition: The act of placing words or concepts close together or side by side, for comparison or contrast. True innovation is never defined initially by a mandatory Return on Investment (ROI).) Buyer beware.

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Climate Change will Drive Manufacturing Innovation

QAD

So, what does this have to do with innovation? Climate-driven Manufacturing Innovation. What’s needed are tools and technologies that go beyond current capabilities, and those require innovation. Why is Environmental Innovation in Manufacturing Not Being Reported? Everything. So, are you a leader or a follower?

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

A forum was great for networking but not for driving process innovation. For example, client-server to cloud architectures offered great promise for process innovation, but companies just moved their processes without asking how to drive new levels of value from technology. In Table 1, I share a comparison of the two methods.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

However, the key part of this comparison is the fact that Sanofi never drove improvement. While I believe that customer service and ESG should be included in the balanced scorecard, I cannot find a set of data across industries good enough to drive this comparison. Outperformers Focus on Customer-centric Innovation.

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

The Companies with the greatest success are smaller and usually drive product innovation into the market. Is a comparison of COV of channel demand versus orders sufficient? Or a similar comparison of customer orders or planned orders? The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence.

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Trying to Push Content Above the Noise

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, the focus is on customer-focused innovation and leadership. Gartner Comparison to the Industry Peer Group For more on the methodology, check out the powerpoint summary online. In the Supply Chains to Admire report publishing next week, we see 34 companies beating their peer groups for the period of 2013-2022.

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