Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 6, 2025
Molexs story is interesting because they excelled at overcoming these cultural issues. The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. The buyers dont report to Mr. Gainsford.
ToolsGroup
JUNE 12, 2025
While Excel has long been a go-to for planners, the landscape has changed. Let’s explore why relying on Excel could be costing you more than you realize. Why Spreadsheets Are Failing Inventory Management Excel feels familiar. If you’re managing inventory with spreadsheets , you’re not alone—but you might be falling behind.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 25, 2024
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. but declining.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 7, 2025
So, in my journey to industry challenge to shift from inside-out to outside-in planning processes, I built the model shared in Figure 1. I observe that organizations are unclear on outcomes and the definition of supply chain excellence. Eleven of the thirteen industries studied are forecastable and stable over time. The reason?
ToolsGroup
MARCH 31, 2025
However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. Probabilistic demand forecasting, in contrast, provides a full probability distribution, revealing actual purchasing patterns and enabling inventory planners to align stock levels with demand realities. The result?
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2018
At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, 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.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 7, 2018
Putting a stick in the eye of the industry is hard work. Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. They want to talk.
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