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. Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” The stories border on the ridiculous. Marketplace Rebirth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Time horizon.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Efficient SCM starts with a well-managed network of suppliers and vendors. Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. In this case, the supplier receives a commission from both the customer and the manufacturer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Today, technology providers are selling analytics. It is about answering the questions that we do not know to ask and testing and learning from market data (in vitro) to understand effective frontiers in complex non-linear systems. In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My Reflection. Why is this important?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Last week, at Supply Chain Insights , as part of our monthly webinar series, I hosted a panel discussion on the current state of the healthcare value network. 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.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions. In the short term, the focus is on improving the ability to minimize the impact of supply chain disruptions by “illuminating” the end-to-end supply chain network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Medical Device Manufacturer. We have used Lean process systems and swim-laned ourselves to death. In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. The focus has been on sourcing and managed costs. It is now shifting again.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Resilinc’s Rick Freeman weighs in on the future opportunities for high-tech and semiconductor companies Despite the stabilization of the high-tech and semiconductor supply chain, the industry still faces pressure due to ongoing import/export restrictions and changing regulations governing semiconductor production and sourcing.

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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. Vice President of Global Operations Strategy, Seagate Technology. His reasoning?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

There is no system of record for data over time, and the use of a portal gives the posting company a false sense of effectively communicating. There is messaging available from ERP to suppliers, but it is inside-out and one-to-one with limitations for communication to a network. There are other options, but each has limitations.

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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. These technologies are mature. I feel that many of these technologies are now legacy.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These metrics provide valuable insights into how well your inventory is managed. Using ShipBob: ShipBob’s analytics tools provide real-time data on sales and inventory levels, allowing for accurate calculation of the turnover ratio. Let’s explore the top indicators of inventory health and see how they can be effectively monitored.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. . The winds of a recession are whipping. Current State.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

True collaboration is systemic. Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. High-Tech and Electronic Supply Networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

At that time, manufacturers talked about customer-centric supply chains, but were afraid to aggressively adopt ecommerce strategies. Manufacturers, today, are aggressively pursuing e-commerce strategies. If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” ” I have been studying the evolution of inventory technologies as an industry analyst since 2002. It is truly a case of process, people and technology.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

It boasts excellent infrastructure, including well-connected harbors, well-educated people, and multilingual capabilities, making it an international logistics hotspot. The Netherlands offers a robust infrastructure, comprising not only road networks but also rail and water transportation, including short sea and deep sea routes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am a manufacturing gal by training. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. I am not quite sure.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. The first evolution of technologies were built by best-of-breed solution vendors. The first step in the journey is a kick-off meeting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. Networking. Marketing Yourself.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

At another client there are 80 ERP systems, and the supply chain team cannot see across instances. Digital media and technologies were quickly absorbed into marketing processes and redefined the norm. Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. Network Response. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At the summit, it will be great to network with old friends, and share insights, but there will be no play for me this weekend. Recently through my analysis of the planning benchmarking work, I have become fascinated on the role of inventory in the market-driven value network. This is a series of preparation calls. Rising Volatility.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

What is the #1 technology topic Descartes CEO Ed Ryan gets asked about? Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. The Descartes Global Logistics Network has 16,500+ customers on it, with more than 13 billion messages processed per year and more than 66 million routes/resources managed per year. pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. Human Systems. ” I am in the middle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. The culture is dominated by “lifers” and technology investment is conservative.

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Do you remember the time when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were announced across the world, followed by the panic purchase of essentials to the point where supermarkets and grocery stores were left with empty shelves? Reshaping the manufacturing world to meet new demands. Historical data method.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. They use advanced ERP software and S&OP strategy to match supply with demand, and turn over inventory faster and faster.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. End-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and execution support software are critical in agile supply chain performance.

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