Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. Ten-year averages – food manufacturing companies. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I think one of the huge problems is that US-centric food companies (Kellogg, General Mills, Smucker’s, Conagra etc.) Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. Rules, engines, policies and metrics need to align.

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Alloy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Channel Performance in Walmart Luminate gives you a true omni-channel view of sales, whether the purchase is in-store, delivered, shipped to store, picked up, or shipped directly to the customer. It may be best thought of as a hyper-targeted focus group, available on demand. .” – Joel Beal, CEO and Cofounder @Alloy.ai

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. For most, it is a sore point.

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BlueYonder

MAY 18, 2023

Lessons From ICON 2023 This blog was written by Judah Reynolds, with Panasonic Connect’s Marketing Planning & Capabilities Group. Two things I heard at ICON really stuck with me: The first was, “Nobody wants to buy new software, what they want is a solution to a problem.” He attended ICON 2023 and shares his key takeaways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define. His reasoning? We want to help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Food Drive-Thru Experiences. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Food instability in Africa could be an outcome because Russia and Ukraine supply 29% of worldwide wheat exports and 17% of corn with significant exports to the middle east and Africa. Over 93% of companies use Excel Spreadsheets to develop their plans. Functional metrics introduce risk and throw the supply chain out of balance.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Streamlines Internal Procedures Spending data analysis sheds light on similar purchases between different departments. It enables them to cooperate even more closely to create fewer purchase orders and get things done faster by grouping multiple items and services into one purchase. Let's learn more about them.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 24, 2022

For example, you may look after PPE and office equipment in-house but have a supplier of maintenance equipment monitor this inventory on your behalf who raises purchase orders when stocks are low. Identify identical or similar MRO inventory stock items to determine if spending can be reduced through bulk purchases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I worked first at Gartner Group and then at AMR Research. I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. In food and beverage companies, I think that we are at a supply chain crisis. I was a skeptic.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. getting buy-in from drivers and other stakeholders) and implementing appropriate metrics to measure and drive performance.). Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure Group, also presented at the Executive Forum. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. In Agrosciences is the customer the distributor of seed/additives, the farmer or the downstream purchaser of food products? Shown in Figure 1 is a cost-to-serve analysis from the food industry.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Consumer demand across many product categories experienced a sudden shift, as well, with demand for essential products like food, cough medicine, disposable gloves and toiletries increasing sharply, while demand for non-essentials like clothing and jewelry declined sharply. ” — Michael Varney and Wil G.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. Content Summary: Soft drink giant Coca-Cola Co. Media Image.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Niels van Hove founder of Supply Chain Trend, interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. A group, eligible to comment on the current state of S&OP. A group, that has shown passion to improve S&OP and a willingness to provide ideas for the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence. Orders do not represent market demand. If this is you, don’t accept the status quo.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I am buying a sheep and goat farm alongside a larger space for a garment factory so that I can control where the cashmere and wool is coming from, how it is processed and how it is manufactured before it is sent to my customers. If you want to optimize your supply chain, the way to do it best isn’t to buy some fancy new machine.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Picking also directly impacts the throughput metric, hence improving the productivity and speed of the picking process, which directly improves the throughput of the distribution center. “It’s helpful to look at your order picking process as a profile group. Take a second look at your most basic organizational tools.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Mobile apps can generate reports and monitor performance metrics. David Armendariz is the general manager of the Information Technology practice group for Lucas Group. The use of big data and data analytics in the logistics landscape provides excellent opportunities to make informed data-driven purchase decisions.

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