Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. I recently interviewed him for my upcoming book, Metrics that Matter, that publishes in August 2014. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence? I am behind.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Ed argued that instead of buying new packaging equipment that we should work with R&D to have a base flavor and add the color and flavoring at the head of the machine. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. The So What?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities. Don’t assume that there is a standard definition, and just because a 3PL signed a contract to deliver it, don’t expect that you are working on the same definition. Don’t fool yourself.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Definitions: Provocateur. It starts with the lack of a clear definition. Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. We are driving functional excellence and incrementally. (To

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Definitions Before we move to the discussion of the actions to take, let’s get clear on some definitions. days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. Their career paths, their identities, and their comfort zones were steeped in the traditional definitions. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. It had been this way for over two decades. .” Let me explain.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. Big data is used to understand a customer’s propensity to buy, the tendency to return, conversion of clicks to orders, demand sensing signals, individualized promotions, etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. Most know very little about the true definition of demand driven. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. The book is a story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience. Figure 1: U.S. Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison. Somewhat nailed it.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

Consultants and technology leaders are rebranding under a “digital umbrella” without clear definition. Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. I am often uncomfortable.

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Procurement Academy

JANUARY 16, 2025

A process audit report is designed to, ultimately, streamline processes, enhance decision-making and drive overall procurement excellence. Typically, a procurement audit report will review areas such as the agreement of contracts, pricing data and purchase information, financial statements, stakeholder data and supplier performance records.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. It is about the new definition of the digital supply chain.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

From the Purchase Order (PO) Status Report to the RFQ Performance Report, each report is dissected to provide a clear definition and a deeper understanding of its significance. Join us on this exploration as we uncover the definitions hidden within the realm of procurement reports and access free sample reports!

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

Starting With Definitions. To help, I wrote a few definitions on the board: Demand-Driven Processes. Market-Driven Processes. The definition: an adaptive network focused on a well-defined value-based outcomes. Definition of Outside-In Processes. I know of ten demand networks using this definition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning.

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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. Companies balance supply chain metrics better in good times than bad. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain. 2) Focus on a balanced portfolio of metrics. Most are treading water.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to 2019 Definitive Healthcare data, U.S. Buying supplies, equipment, low preference items and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive and while it’s not an area where you want to skimp, there are certainly ways to reduce these expenses without impacting quality of care.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

You’ll note in the headline I use the preposition “of” instead of “to” when describing the “journey of Supply Chain Excellence.” The differentiator is whether Supply Chain Excellence is defined as a one-time project or as on ongoing process. Circuit City failed to adapt and is now history.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

The only solid case study about supply chain risk is definitely from Cisco System. The company won the ISM 2012 Award for Excellence in Supply Management (category:process). Metrics look very simple and its kind of nice to have something like these. In general, you may not be able to get all level of metrics. Discussion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

When I think of the definition of the word agility, I think of Gumby, pictured here. One of the largest issues for organizations to drive supply chain agility is the lack of a commonly held and well-understood definition. Q: You mention that Executive Buy-in is the biggest stumbling block. I would start with a clear definition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. This creates many issues.

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Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

Modern platforms pull data from a wide array of sources: ERPs, relational databases, Excel files, cloud apps, third-party providers, and beyond. Packaged Analytics, KPIs & Reports Ready-to-use reports, metrics, and dashboards that accelerate time-to-insight. They served a purpose but lacked flexibility and real-time relevance.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Available to Promise (ATP) Available to Promise (ATP) is a real-time inventory management metric that tells you how much of a product you can promise to customers without overcommitting. It supports smarter buying by showing which categories or products deliver the best ROI. Why is GMROI important? Want to dive deeper into KPIs?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark); but for most companies that I have worked with, I see that they have purchased and implemented inventory technologies, but there has not been an impact on future years results in either Days of Inventory or Days of Working Capital. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. What I Think it Means.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. Mistake #3. My challenge? Measure it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. The company sold on Amazon, operated its own website, managed outlet stores, and could purchase end-aisle displays in major retail chains. Raise your hand and ask for definitions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

With the rise in complexity, most Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are going backwards (inventory turns, ROIC, operating margin and growth). With the evolution of the cloud, in-memory processing, and advancements in analytics, the traditional definitions of technologies, consultants and analysts are shifting. They are very different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. Definitions Matter. However, when you ask each group for a definition of “integrated” the definitions are different. Definitions matter. Here are my thoughts: 1) Failure of the Industry Analyst Model.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

No one should be surprised that consultants, pundits, marketers and academics have found ways to argue about the definition and ultimate business value of Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Early challenges to IBP included a lack of an accepted academic definition, the absence of a governing body and a bias toward supply chain applications.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

In this post my goal is to help companies build outside-in processes through a clearer definition. This outside-in orientation needs a definition to make it actionable. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Reflection. Let’s start with the basics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

The primary difference is in the definition of the word ‘service.’ E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. Prior to the buy-out, E2open’s stock price was battered with a decline in the company’s shares by 74% over the last year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” Most demand planning happens in Excel Ghettos not in the expensive technologies implemented in 90% of manufacturing companies. ” I am in the middle. Here I share my world view. Everyone has a bias.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Ecommerce has changed the definition. Disintermediation.

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