Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

by Melissa Clow September is a busy time of year for us at Kinaxis – Many folks here are flying the skies to attend various conferences. Here’s the supply chain conferences we love and will be attending. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Automotive Logistics Global Conference. September 10-11.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. Companies typically expect that inventory levels will drop and service levels improve at the end of the first month. He added, “we needed results in the first year.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

This week, I spoke at the Llamasoft Summercon Conference. The conference was low-key. We laughed, and felt a bit silly, leaving the conference room holding our new furry tchotchkes. It could no longer be just about inventory levels. I smiled as I began to present the story of the “Metrics that Matter.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It is morning in Orlando. The sun is rising. This inbound news adds to the story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

The story unfolds as Max’s bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the “Wild Things.” The business requirements have outpaced the first and second generation of capabilitie s of the Advanced Planning Systems (APS).

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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. Tracking Progress.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Maturity in horizontal process development– Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and new product launch—also drives value. It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. Outside-in Processes.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

by Melissa Clow As we have mentioned a couple times, Kinexions , the Kinaxis Training & User Conference is taking place later this month. Benji Green, director of global sales, operations and inventory planning, Avaya. October 28-30, 2014. We have a great speaker line up, but here are 4 supply chain minds you can’t miss!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

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. Let’s start with a discussion of how to read the box and whisker plot. What else do we see in the data? I would agree.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 15, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Kinaxis hosted Kinexions Tokyo 2016 customer user conference event at the Canadian embassy in Tokyo. PSI (Production, Sales, and Inventory) analysis has been the norm in the region for quite some time. In light of this, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is an area of great interest to the participants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

It comes in many flavors–increase in inventory, changes in sales policies, new product lines– all add to the complexity. The only industry that has made progress in inventory management is consumer electronics. The only industry that has made progress in inventory management is consumer electronics. 5) Alignment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. Here they are: The Lie of Inventory Reduction. Supply chain excellence matters. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I am unsure how many business teams I had the good fortune of working with, but a casual count nears 3,000 over 20 years with over 500 conference speaking opportunities. Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. The question was, “What mattered?

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

This, together with lack of visibility, poor planning capability and outdated assets due to high cost of capital, results in ad hoc decisions made in functional silos that are more focused on cost and inventory risk avoidance and less on service, thereby contributing to inefficient (and often, inflexible) supply chain processes.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

” Steve’s response was fascinating and enlightening. I related to Steve’s story of death by a thousand cuts. Both Kimberly-Clark and P&G are going backwards on operating margin while making progress on inventory turns. 21 versus P&G’s.19 Let’s take the case of Cisco Systems.

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

These were just a few of the themes discussed at this year’s Connections 2014, Logility’s customer conference. Held at the Loews Atlanta, the conference brought together several hundred of the industry’s brightest supply chain professionals to share their opinions, techniques and experiences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 13, 2013

However, the conditions were more complex; the average company, over the last ten years, experienced a decline of 1% in operating margin, and an increase in the days of inventory of 5%. One of the primary issues, shown in figure 1, is the executive team’s understanding of the supply chain. Today’s supply chains respond.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. On the 2nd of April, I sat before a board discussing how a company could exceed expectations in the delivery of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and superior operating margins and fail at the delivery of customer service and inventory. It is a slow week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

The practices are still emerging and have morphed dramatically over the course of the supply chain leader’s career. For perspective, let’s look back at history. As a result, the CSCO’s efforts to drive alignment can fall on deaf ears. Looking Back at History. The goal was efficiency.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Does being the best at a specific supply chain function — Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Order Fulfillment and S&OP—define a best in class supply chain? Decisions are tradeoffs and need to be evaluated based on their impact and the weighting of key performance metrics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2012

The conference format and size were just right to allow comfortable sharing of ideas and lessons learned about various topics from S&OP and supply chain planning, to inventory optimization and transportation. S&OP should be the process used to align the organization.

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Logility

JUNE 20, 2017

At recent supply chain user conferences, a major concern for many companies was the talent gap in supply chain. Supply chain talent shortages plague organizations from the executive level to the shop floor and right into the customer’s home. That’s a critical talent gap, too. Rising Demand. In the broader U.S.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

From our eBook, S&OP in the 21st century , “An audit of 50 corporate spreadsheets in 2007 revealed that 94% had errors… one for $100 million!” That could mean excess inventory sitting in a warehouse, gathering dust or depreciating. That won’t end well. And, who has final audit control?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

It starts with the needs of the customer’s customer and flows through the extended supply network. 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.” Within each company and market there are distinct rhythms and flows for demand.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. Reliving the old days was made even more rich, as there was a panel session at the conference with Lora Cecere, Roddy Martin, Mickey North-Rizza and myself. So, drum roll please….

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

We determine which companies have driven higher levels of improvement (based on Supply Chain Index calculations) and shareholder value (as defined by Price to Tangible Book Value) while outperforming their peer group on growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The Results.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process. Their words. As a result, the best implementations are usually not the fastest.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The monthly cycle of S&OP meetings has been the forum in which a firm’s forecasts have been presented and reconciled across functional areas. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. The authors detailed a sequential S&OP cycle around a.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

We determine which companies have driven higher levels of improvement (based on Supply Chain Index calculations) and shareholder value (as defined by Price to Tangible Book Value) while outperforming their peer group on growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

Four years ago, I was in Europe attending a conference. In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. While companies want to improve costs and inventory, most are going backwards. Avoid Artificially Constraining Inventory Levels. You are not alone.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 10, 2015

Over the years, I’ve met many people at conferences and seminars who proudly state that “we’re doing CPFR” or “we’re doing S&OP”. After short conversations with these folks, it seems that the definition of “CPFR” and “S&OP” has become somewhat diluted. Okay, rant over.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

Today’s populist movement is about new winners and losers. Border crossing(s), port unloading, and global visibility are barriers. Today’s global supply chain has positions open that they cannot fill. In today’s economy, where both are under attack, it requires a different level of leadership.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. Christensen’s concept is that businesses will reject innovation based on the fact that the customer cannot currently use the innovation delaying the adoption of great ideas.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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