Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 7, 2025
Compared to peer group performance for 2013-2023, 59% of the Gartner Top 25 score below their peer group on average revenue growth, 41% below inventory turns, and 41% below their sector on invested capital. The celebrated group is doing the best on the operating margin, where only 24% rank below their peer group.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 25, 2024
By charting the performance against peer groups, I could see the story. The first step was to find a reliable data set and establish the peer groups. We purchase data from Y charts. (A The second step of establishing peer groups was trickier. There is no perfect methodology, and the peer group discussions continue.
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Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2018
The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. L’Oréal’s Performance Compared to the Peer Group. We complete the analysis each year.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. At this session, we will launch the “supply chain fundamental score” (a simple measurement to determine value generated by the supply chain as compared to the peer group). Drop me a DM on LinkedIn if you want to attend.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 9, 2024
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. As shown in Figure B, the Company outperforms their peer group but lacks resilience.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies. This gap grew over the last decade.
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