Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. I think that it is time for us to take the litmus test and ask the hard questions, “Have our practices impacted days of inventory? I want to believe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Source: Dictionary.com. This makes me yawn. It is systemic.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

According to the Conference Board, despite lockdowns and COVID-19 related restrictions, consumer confidence in Asia rose in the last quarter of 2021 to 128 points from 126 points. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. As a result, consumer behaviour is likely to become more and more unpredictable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

This week, I spoke at the Llamasoft Summercon Conference. The conference was low-key. The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. We laughed, and felt a bit silly, leaving the conference room holding our new furry tchotchkes. The theatre was packed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

During the spring, I get to spend a lot of time in airplane(s) attending and speaking at technology confer ences. Software maintenance costs are rising for the CIO. In parallel, the traditional software vendors are struggling with the Innovators Dilemma. Consulting and software are very different business models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. Time horizon.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

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. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. I recently interviewed him for my upcoming book, Metrics that Matter, that publishes in August 2014. ” Supply Chain Leader.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 4, 2023

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Metrics monitoring Real-time data can be accessed globally using cloud computing. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure? is a highly complex process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

At the NRF event, I feel that the words were largely overhyped and the solutions showcased on the floor largely underdelivered. As these words filled the air in session after session, the promises were vast and overarching, but the solutions showcased in the vendor booths on the floor were largely the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

We have been taught, as supply chain leaders, that over the last decade supply chain processes have improved costs, shortened cycle times, improved customer service and decreased inventory. ” Or run the statement by any software provider, and they will share that their solutions delivered these “best practices.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

In the words of a person that I once heard speak at the conference,”It is much easier for a supply chain team to run downhill than uphill.” Traditional Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) approaches are too limited. To move the product, the company discounted the cars to stimulate purchase. A Focus on Demand Flows.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. We focus on reducing miles driven, making a delivery in hours instead of days, minimizing inventories, or increasing the utilization of our workforce. And thus, Friends with Fitbits was born.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The effect of any communications effort with this may be difficult to measure unless specific measurement tools are put in place upfront. Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Evidence may be just as useful in situations like this.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? I am not quite sure.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

In my role as an industry analyst, I have been lucky to attend many great conferences and hear wonderful speakers. One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. Reflections.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. Their words. She states that.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. o Space—holding places for unnecessary inventory. o Inventory—inactive raw, work-in-process, or finished goods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. At the Supply Chain Insights Global Conference in 2019, an attendee stopped me after the third case study of the Supply Chains to Admire award winner. ” As he spoke, I smiled. The answer?

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Alloy

JUNE 25, 2019

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference , one of the standout sessions was “The Penalty Conundrum?—?Suppliers If a shopper chooses a different brand or not to purchase at all because a product isn’t available, it’s a lost sales opportunity. Suppliers and Retailers Can Both Benefit From Renewed Focus on OTIF.”

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Those teams just need the right manufacturing enhancement tools, like ThroughPut, to immediately leverage their data and increase output today by identifying constraints faster and identifying what to prioritize. After all, humanity is now depending on the global manufacturing sector not to become the global bottleneck of supply chains.

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EMERGE App

MAY 20, 2023

Who is most likely to purchase your product immediately? A customer avatar will help develop specific marketing tools! Precisely define the problem If you can distinctly identify the problems your customers have and develop solutions, you will be shocked at how much they are willing to pay. How much do they earn?

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Those teams just need the right manufacturing enhancement tools, like ThroughPut, to immediately leverage their data and increase output today by identifying constraints faster and identifying what to prioritize. After all, humanity is now depending on the global manufacturing sector not to become the global bottleneck of supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Two weeks ago, I sat in the audience at Pivotcon , a conference focused on the advancement of digital business. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. It is a conundrum. As I read them, I laugh. I give them credit.

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