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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OptiProERP

JANUARY 17, 2024

While the overall trend is toward more integrated and flexible systems that can process voluminous amounts of data, yielding analytics and metrics for improved decision-making, a majority of manufacturers still have yet to commit to the newer, “smarter” technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages. In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted. inventory turns.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

The 2018 RILA Retail Supply Chain Conference was a great opportunity to hear what retail leaders are focused on, and excited about, as we chart the future of our evolving industry. That dialogue set the tone for the conference in some key ways. As we gathered in Phoenix, Ariz. and a lot more. Challenges Ahead in 2018.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. It is needed. What is disruption?

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

The 2018 RILA Retail Supply Chain Conference was a great opportunity to hear what retail leaders are focused on, and excited about, as we chart the future of our evolving industry. That dialogue set the tone for the conference in some key ways. As we gathered in Phoenix, Ariz. and a lot more. Challenges Ahead in 2018.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure. I also believed that this company would have the best inventory and customer service. I was wrong. We never found this company.

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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. They are lightweight, flexible, and simple to integrate, making them perfect for use in warehouses with limited room. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the Supply Chain Management trends apparent at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May was highlighted by several vendor/customer presentations focused on the value of Collaboration and Visibility projects. Tom McDonough , Sr. Director Product Marketing. safety stock or other planned parameters).

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Cerasis is squarely focused on transportation management through technology and managed services , however, there are logistics companies who offer fulfillment, warehousing, freight forwarding, and more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. Orbit Chart of Syngenta and Monsanto of Progress on Operating Margin and Inventory Turns. It is unlike any other conference. Network with Leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Vendor Managed Inventory processes–once hailed as the panacea of demand sensing–largely operate in isolation within sales organizations (of the thirty-three organizations that we interviewed last year, no market leader has connected these demand signals). ” They questioned, “ How long will this recession last?

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As warehouse management and EDI systems have become more sophisticated so has the ability for retailers to identify which shipments are arriving that aren't compliant with vendor routing guides and SOPs. . : Come up with a set of internal metrics that will go towards eliminating problem areas. Do you have proper inventory visibility?

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

That could mean excess inventory sitting in a warehouse, gathering dust or depreciating. Their functionality, and charting, has made my life easier many times in managing certification programs, and producing critical metrics data. I use them all of the time for various needs, with great success.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I also provided an early look at one of the supply chain physics laws that I will be working on with my colleague Tom Linton, who also presented at the conference: Supply Chain Physics Law 3 : Shorter distances between parties in the supply chain improve efficiency, communication, and speed of execution. and will operate more efficiently.

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Vinculum

APRIL 17, 2020

Is your organization facing a shortage of essential supplies and inventory prompted by panic buying and stocking up of consumers? The unpredictable situation is resulting in many cancellations like concert tickets, business conferences, airline reservations, etc. Are the unpredictable demands and market uncertainties a struggle?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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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. In a similar vein, their forecasts for the automotive market would have been on new automotive sales and dealer inventory. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. I am not quite sure.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Contract analytics can provide a summary view on performance and pricing deviations, risks, statistics (expiry, renewal and pending), procurement and sales metrics. This included budgeting tools, commodity management data, SAP inventory data, contract information, and other data from multiple parts of the organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

This is a key differentiator and vastly different to the principles we know today of relational software in rows and tables and traditional data warehouse approaches using ETL where processing data requires movement. Inventories are high, and we have excessive ocean capacity. Instead, the program processes the data where it resides.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Warehouse workers have to pay attention to forklift movements. Forklifts are necessary pieces of equipment for some inventory warehouses and manufacturing plants. Factories and warehouses need strategies in place that limit the potential risks associated with forklift operation and solutions to sustain best practices.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Warehouse workers have to pay attention to forklift movements. Forklifts are necessary pieces of equipment for some inventory warehouses and manufacturing plants. Factories and warehouses need strategies in place that limit the potential risks associated with forklift operation and solutions to sustain best practices.

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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

JULY 24, 2013

Macy’s had been bragging at conferences about their work on cross-channel fulfillment with progress made in using their stores to ship directly to customers. More and more companies are struggling to make progress in operating margin and inventory cycles. The traditional metrics within each silo are a barrier.

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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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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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The Lean Supply Chain

MARCH 22, 2015

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to insure success across the supply chain.These metrics should be reviewed frequently to insure 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

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Two weeks ago, I sat in the audience at Pivotcon , a conference focused on the advancement of digital business. Only 57% of retailers have a perpetual inventory signal, and too few companies (22%) have invested in mining channel data through the use of a Demand Signal Repository (DSR). It is a conundrum. What should you do?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response? The Takeaway from CSCMP Conference: The Data Problem Runs Deep. For example, Walmart began enforcing its new OTIF requirements in August.

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