Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Planner turnover, time to plan, ability to get to data, system usability, and talent gaps are all major issues. In the research I notice three trends: 1) Demand Planning Is Stronger than Supply. The gap has grown.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

So, I thought that I would grab a cup of coffee and pen a short blog post before I take off for Phoenix to work with clients and attend the Manhattan Software event. Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. ” The dialogue was rich.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

It is now owned by Gartner Group and used as a commercial tool to drive client engagements. It has also been co opted by technology leaders as a moniker, and promise, to sell their software. Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Companies compete.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. The metrics shown in Figure 1 are difficult to improve together. Most companies improve singular metrics but are not able to drive portfolio. Today it is more complex than a decade ago. improvements. I was wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. It was badly implemented by a system integrator. The cost was 60% more in than average; but even more unfortunate, they never got a good understanding of how to use the planning system. Characteristics : Demand. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. In parallel, processes and technologies are changing. Three courses are scheduled for in Philadelphia. How does it help?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

We are at a software and consulting junction point. ” Steve’s burning platform is the use of analytics to drive growth through micromarketing and segmentation. While, your burning platform is probably different, but the key point is to have it be grounded in the business reality. Confusion reigns. It makes sense.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. Traditionally, supply chain technologies are batch processes. I reflected.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

The company that plays to win does not strive to have the best manufacturing costs, or the best procurement practices; instead, the team focuses on winning together cross-functionally on a commonly held portfolio of metrics. Companies also have to challenge their conventional paradigms about technology. Embrace New Technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

For the purposes of this article, I define the processes of network design as the use of analytic tools to model and optimize the supply chain. The work can use multiple technologies and combine cognitive learning, simulation and optimization. Network complexity grows quickly which rules out many of the available technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

We assumed that we did not know what the connection was between the views of supply chain planners, supply chain leaders, financial data, and planning system output (forecast error, bias, inventory targets, and slow-moving inventory). With our current systems, companies are at a plateau. The activity was inductive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

Geopolitical shifts, economic uncertainty and demand/supply volatility are rising. Technology has not caught up. The value network of suppliers and logistics providers is largely managed by spreadsheets and email with no system of record for interactions. It is About Much, Much More than Technology. This increases risk.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2015

Agility is the ability to have the same performance in cost, quality, and customer service given a level of demand and supply volatility.) In a recent study of planners, we found that the average planner spends 20% of their time planning and using the technologies. 4) Attention to Detail in Forecasting Processes. Did we miss any?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. Names for the Cross-Functional Process to Align Demand and Supply. No two companies are the same, and there are many technologies used. As shown in Figure 2, S&OP processes use many technologies, but getting to data is a challenge for all companies. This is not trivial.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. Running a public software company in the supply chain management space is a tough job. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter has been selling briskly on Amazon, and we are actively working on the program for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 9th and 10th, 2015.The

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

It is finally spring in Philadelphia. I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We Power Growth through New Technologies. I love spring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Feeling very green, I stumbled through the airport and found my way to my seat on the plane from Brussels to Philadelphia. <The To me a consultant works with a company on a project basis to implement processes or technology. One thing is clear for me, it does not happen without the use of planning technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. This is when Unilever was working on their demand-driven initiatives. With a strong manufacturing culture, much of the focus was on lean production systems. …I hope that this exuberance spills over to North America to rethink the port systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2015

In my time with the company, we grew from being the fifth largest provider of personal computing hardware companies to being one of the top three technology companies in the world. So for me Benchmarking is not against our other Technology competitors in our industry. We need to be the most INNOVATIVE area of any business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. I believed that the first generation of supply chain systems would improve operations to a greater degree than actually happened. I am an old gal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

There is a belief that investments in technology, processes and talent improves balance sheet results and organizational agility. In a recent study, our goal was to understand the impact of process and technology choices on balance sheet performance. There is no correlation between technology choices and balance sheet results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 11, 2015

Too few companies understand that the supply chain as a complex system with finite and non-linear relationships between the metrics. The average company has three-to-five Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and two-to-three Advanced Planning Systems (APS), data access is an ongoing challenge. What do you think?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. The Supply Chain is a Complex System with Increasing Complexity. Inventory is the most important supply chain buffer for demand and supply volatility. For most companies, demand and supply volatility is increasing.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2017

For years, policy discussions about America’s technological innovation-driven, high-tech economy have focused on just a few. For years, policy discussions about America’s technological innovation-driven, high-tech economy have focused on just a few.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. ” Their systems were not meeting their expectations. My favorites are Cisco Systems, Frito Lay, Intel, General Mills, Land O’Lakes, and Sandisk. Get Clear on the Definition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. The engines largely operate in isolation: they lack a seamless platform.

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