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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

and HOUSTON, Tex. September 26, 2019) A new study by ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and Spinnaker, a supply chain services company, has found that only 7% of companies are reaping the benefits of digital transformation of supply chain planning. BOSTON, Mass. About Spinnaker.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Houston, We Have a Problem. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. Houston, we have a problem. Inventories are ballooning and customer service is getting worse. In supply chain, we have a problem.

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Renegade Riposte

Supply Chain Shaman

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. I believe this is necessary at the earliest stages of a supply chain transformation.

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Seven Thoughts to Build a Customer-Centric Supply Chain Organization

Supply Chain Shaman

It was a very regional, sales-driven culture, and there was no clarity between a sales request and a customer requirement. The First Step in Building the Customer-Centric Supply Chain Is Reliability. I am firmly convinced that the first step in the delivery of customer-centric supply chain is reliability. They were competitors.