Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. To wrap up, this was my first time attending the Command Alkon conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

I will share the data in this blog, on Forbes, and in the upcoming conferences discussing a shift from inside-out to outside-in processes. Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2017

It is hard work to maintain the status quo in metrics performance. A balanced portfolio of metrics delivers the greatest value. The supply chain is a complex, non-linear system. In the setting of strategy goals, executive teams often set unrealistic goals because they are not aligned with supply chain potential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. While companies want to improve supply chain performance and drive value, it is easier said than done. Supply Chain Organizations By The Numbers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

As I sat at my kitchen table, I reviewed spreadsheet after spreadsheet of corporate performance data on supply chain financial ratios. The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Bandied about terms like best practices and “supply chain leaders” fill the air at supply chain conferences. An avid student of supply chain performance, I have asked the question of What makes a “supply chain leader” for the last six years. improvements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

” Supply Chain Leader. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2017

However, we know from our research that efficient silos do not deliver the highest levels of balance sheet performance. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system requiring a focus on a balanced portfolio. As a result, tor most companies, the goals are unclear and the financial metrics are not well-understood.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Supply chains have not morphed to manage the complexity at the same cost, quality and level of customer service. Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. Cycle Management is Stalled. I asked for questions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Instead, you book the biggest conference room in the building and invite a cross-functional team to review what happened in 2013. You just do not see the patterns of the interrelationships of metrics in an Excel spreadsheet. It is a slow week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

The rise in complexity happened faster than supply chain leaders could improve supply chain performance.) I am hearing it again in my interviews for the book Metrics That Matter. My reasoning is that it takes many years to drive true supply chain performance. We have stubbed our toes.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

As part of the survey, we asked the respondents to rate their company’s supply chain performance relative to peers in their industry (ranging from “Significantly Below Average” to “Significantly Above Average”). Is customer experience a supply chain metric at your company?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 13, 2013

In the process, I discovered that the average process manufacturing company has reached a plateau in supply chain performance. I believe that we have reached a plateau and that supply chain performance is declining. Growth has stalled. ” I think that this is true.

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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. Technology, such as integrated cloud-based platforms of applications with connected networks and data will help to improve supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat. While I do not consider this case study as a good example of demand-driven processes, I do believe that they have done some great work on implementing a customer segmented supply chain based on postponement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

In contrast, J&J that made the Gartner Top 25 list although they under performing on growth in both the pharmaceutical and medical device divisions, and they are not driving supply chain improvement (as measured by the Supply Chain Index ) faster than the peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

In the supply chain, the questions do not change; but the answers do. Quote from a Supply Chain Leader at a Conference in Europe. Yesterday, Peter Bolstorff, Executive Director, APICS Supply Chain Council, called to discuss the use of the Supply Chain Index by APICS to measure supply chain improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Note the improvement and the resiliency in supply chain performance.). I pushed hard to get the supply chain team to understand the commercial challenge; and I also worked diligently to give the supply chain team an identity, and I then asked them to stand up to that identity.”. .”

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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. Over time, I used this group as a research panel to better understand the choices made by supply chain leaders and what made a difference in balance sheet performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. So, can I say that Colgate, P&G or Unilever are top performing supply chains? Performance of the Household Products Peer Group. We will continue this discussion at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit.

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion. We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. The agenda focuses on even themes: Supply Chains to Admire. It is unlike any other conference. Network with Leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

” Based on my research, it is clear to me that buyer frustration with supply chain technology is increasing. Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. The lack of progress is troubling.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2013

When I started Supply Chain Insights, I ran into Scott DeGroot, Director of the Customer Supply Chain Team; Rick Sather, Vice President of the Customer Supply Chain Team; and Mike Kalinowski, Director of Supply Chain Operations, at conferences. The presentations were all hard-hitting.

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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. Great memories here, as so much has changed in the supply chain research world these past 5+ years. There has been so much discussion on the “top” supply chain lists.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

” Based on my research, it is clear to me that buyer frustration with supply chain technology is increasing. Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. The lack of progress is troubling.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Their functionality, and charting, has made my life easier many times in managing certification programs, and producing critical metrics data. This can lead to smarter decisions and an improvement in supply chain performance. The post Spreadsheets – A Look Back appeared first on The 21st Century Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

We will be discussing these and other issues at the Supply Chain Insights Global Conference on September 9th and 10th. I designed the agenda to help supply chain leaders rethink the future in a deeper way than any other conference agenda that I see in the market. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We are one of the very few big pharmaceutical companies with theses specialized conditions and as a result, we are quite skilled in managing the cold chain environment. I think that there are two important factors explaining the superior results of Novo Nordisk supply chain performance.

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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 named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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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., Reducing freight costs, improving supplier delivery performance, and minimizing supplier risk are three of the many benefits machine learning is providing in collaborative supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

Excited that he could follow the Global Summit through the livestream conference broadcast and follow the twitter feed for the event using the hashtag #imagine2030, I expect to see him online on September 7th-9th. We reviewed the orbit charts and progress of the recent Supply Chains to Admire Analysis for 2016.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. The best planning systems are implemented carefully based on conference room pilots and focus on modeling the business. Their words.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

My goal is to help companies perform better in future quarters by improving alignment. Four years ago, I was in Europe attending a conference. I walked into the event early before my speaking slot and sat down to listen to the CFO of Samsung Europe wrap-up his speech about his supply chain. Let me share some background.

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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.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

Competing on customer experience is the new battleground in business and supply chain management is a critical enabler. That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. Source: BluJay Solutions.

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