Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

A balance sheet analysis shows that 95% of publicly traded manufacturers are stuck (when compared to peer group) at the intersection of growth and margin, margin and inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and growth. When companies were growing, I also discovered that the cost and inventory metrics better aligned with peers.

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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. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. And we follow a pattern: you do an assessment, a sourcing wave, build a process, and do it over and over. Another one that is predominant in manufacturing is corporate responsibility, around conflict minerals and human rights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I smiled on the week following the conference as the accolades piled up in my inbox. Attending the conference was Alexia Howard, Senior Research Analyst – US Foods for Sanford C. Following the conference, Alexia asked for me to share the methodology with over 150 financial analysts. Aligned Metrics.

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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. We also see that manufacturing companies with a strong dependency on BPO are less agile and rate themselves lower on innovation. Open source needs maintenance. I have done this for a decade.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 13, 2023

ICON 2023 is Blue Yonder’s annual customer conference and premier supply chain event, where practitioners and decision-makers exchange insights about their transformation journeys If you are in the manufacturing field, why should you attend this year’s event? Terence: Why should manufacturing companies attend ICON?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. It is one of the primary reasons why nine out of ten manufacturing companies are stuck at the intersection of operati ng margins and inventory turns.”

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Precoro

JULY 16, 2023

These goals can be expressed as key performance indicators (KPIs) – relevant functional metrics that can be tracked regularly to make sure that the business makes purchases in an efficient way. We have selected 5 fundamental KPIs that purchasing managers should consider.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

From May 2016 through the end of August 2017, “17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailers had departed, or announced their intention to,” according to an article published last September in Fortune. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” Source: Nulogy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Medical Device Manufacturer. The focus has been on sourcing and managed costs. Some helpful reports include: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: The Cash-to-Cash Cycle.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

A total of 137 respondents completed the survey from Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics Service Provider, and other companies in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Source: “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation,” Adelante SCM & BluJay Solutions, August 2018. and 51.5%, respectively).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The metrics reward functional thinking. The conference will be live-streamed as we discuss five themes: Supply Chains to Admire.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Quote from a Supply Chain Leader at a Conference in Europe. After, I explained this, I granted Peter permission for the council to use the Index (the use of the Supply Chain Insights content follows the principles of open source), I then said to Peter, “I am glad that you called. Need for the design of buffers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

Cloud and open source analytics are fueling new markets giving rise of new software providers in analytics with names like Board, Cloudera, EveryAngle, Enterra Solutions, FusionOps, Halo, Qlik, Spotfire, Transvoyant, Trifecta, and Trufa. The conference will be live streamed as we discuss five themes: Financial Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader. The goal was efficiency. This is a sign of organizational maturity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In my work with manufacturing companies recently, I am thinking a lot about the need for diagnostic testing. 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. As a group, we drill into root issues. Let’s take an example.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

I first heard the term only a few months ago during Zoltan Pekar’s presentation at our annual training and user conference, Kinexions. As defined by the source of all knowledge, Wikipedia, “glocalization is the adaptation of globally marketed products and services to local markets.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. SanDisk Corporation designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software. The company is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp., Source: Machine Learning & AI in Transport and Logistics, Frank Salliau & Sven Verstrepen Logistics Meets Innovation Vlerick Brussels – Nov. no opt-in). 15th, 2017 (PDF., no opt-in).

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Because he had reduced his buffers—both inventory and manufacturing—and had built a push-based supply chain using a forecasted demand signal, he was failing in many markets. It is a slow week. Most of my friends are on vacation. It is tedious.

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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. A high-tech contract manufacturer was growing rapidly through acquisition. Tom McDonough , Sr.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. It is for this reason, that I discount the reporting by APQC, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) and Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) benchmarking data. Debra built the Gartner Hierarchy of supply chain metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

While traditional forecasting approaches use statistics to model history assuming that historic shipments and order patterns represent future market patterns, in the times of market volatility, especially for manufacturers two-five levels back in the supply chain, traditionally forecasting is not adequate. We hope to see you there! _.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. In the building of global supply chains, in the last decade, across value networks, outsourcing to third-party logistics, and contract manufacturing accelerated. A Critical Review of the Contract Manufacturing Model. There are many reasons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room. The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. .” I drew the picture shown in Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

The sun is shining brightly through the conference room windows as I listen to the consultants talk. IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. In the commercial world of sell, deliver, make and source processes, we do not have the time or money to fund data scientists. It is buzzword bingo at its finest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. There is seldom one technology used within a manufacturing company to connect B2b value networks.) It is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

I am a manufacturing gal by training. While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. The conference will be live streamed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Explore 2020 is right around the corner—less than three months until QAD’s premier customer conference convenes in Las Vegas. The new Adaptive UX Action Centers and Key Performance Indicators provide flexible, built-in metrics, role-specific operational dashboards, and advanced analytics based on multiple data sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. My response is “Hogwash.”

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today. Transplace TMS Screenshots (source: Transplace).

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