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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

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We purchase data from Y charts. (A Studying Performance of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners Plotting corporate patterns against peer group performance through orbit charts enables a quick understanding of supply chain excellence. As an aside, I do not think that Lenovo is an example of a supply chain excellence.

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Probabilistic Forecasting: The Future of Supply Chain Planning

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The Science of Demand Planning: Improving Forecast Accuracy Consider this example: A traditional forecasting system analyzing tire sales might observe 12 units sold annually and determine an average monthly demand of one tire. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires.

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

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to This is an example of managing a balanced portfolio and of driving a supply chain revolution. This case study is the best example we have seen of a customer-centric supply chain. In China, for example, more than 40% of the company’s business through eCommerce. We empower employees to propose and to innovate.”

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

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” At that time, the sales organization used more point-of-sale data than their competitors, they had an impressive and innovative IT team, and their supply chain processes were what I considered best-in-class. ” “Outside-in planning is a business value-driven approach vs a functional excellence approach.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

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How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. I admit it.

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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

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In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

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Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Let’s take P&G as an example. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? A Case Study.