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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In today’s architectures and functional metrics, value optimization does not exist. And, when procurement and tactical planning operate in isolation, there is no decision support framework to guide the trade-offs especially when the functions are tethered to different and conflicting metrics. You are right. The reason?

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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. What Drives Value?

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ESG-Driven Supply Chains: Moving Beyond Compliance Toward Proactive Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

While past efforts focused on meeting compliance requirements, organizations are now working to proactively embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into their sourcing, production, and distribution activities. Without common definitions, ESG assessments can be inconsistent or incomplete.

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Control Towers: If Only There Was A Clear Definition

Supply Chain Shaman

What is an easy definition? There is no class of technologies, or common definition, for “control towers.” While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics.

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Managing Supply Chain Planning in the World of Scarcity

Supply Chain Shaman

(Inventory is both our most important buffer and greatest source of waste.) Functional metrics align to bonus incentives, but progress in supply chains remains evasive. Muda comes from many sources. An ontology guides the learning by defining a set of terms and relational expressions that represent the core definitions.

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Please Don’t AI Stupid

Supply Chain Shaman

The issue is that when companies optimize functional metrics, they throw the supply chain out of balance and sub-optimize value. We have not designed the planning systems to serve managers, directors, and vice presidents, aiming to improve decision-making and collaboration across the source, make, and deliver processes.

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The Tale of the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Magic Quadrant and Minestrone Soup

Supply Chain Shaman

Philip, and other supply chain planning sales teams, have profited over the decades on the back of the historic definition of supply chain planning. For 80% of industries, the supply chain metrics represent more than 40% impact on value. Today, companies measure too many metrics without a clear definition of value.

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