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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Research. The Company Cohort is a private program for 30-50 team members within a company to learn new concepts and raise innovative ideas submitted during the course.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years.

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Clorox Successfully Implements a Program for Value Chain Segmentation

Supply Chain Shaman

In our research we find that over the course of the last decade (2006-2017), we find that each vertical industry has a well-defined pattern of performance. In this period, Clorox was acquiring products with significantly higher margins and lower inventory turns. At the time, 40% of inventory of the Clorox company were these wipes.

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JDA’s Project with SanDisk, a Western Digital Brand, Recognized for Its Impressive Supply Chain Transformation

BlueYonder

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the project: Project goal: SanDisk’s goal was to operate a responsive, best-in-class supply chain for flash memory products that would achieve optimal balance between service level and inventory turns across scenarios to create a better experience for its commercial and retail partners and customers.

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Key Manufacturing Takeaways from FocusConnect 2016

BlueYonder

Through the course of keynotes, workshops and the flow of conversation at the event, a number of several key trends emerged: Drones in the warehouse. The supply chain of the future. Supply chain segmentation in Europe. So exactly what does that change look like, and how does the industry prepare?

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

My hand was enjoying the warmth from the porcelain coffee cup and I was loving the solitude when a supply chain leader approached me with a cup of tea in his hand. No, of course not,” I said, as I shifted to make room for him to sit. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy. By Lora Cecere. “I

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Secret Confessions of a Supply Chain Junkie

BlueYonder

There are tons of articles, white papers and blogs about today’s supply chain challenges: globalization, off-shore manufacturing, supply chain segmentation, big data, mobility, social media, price optimization, warehouse throughput, labor scheduling and in-store picking.