Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2023
The use of descriptive analytics along with agile planning techniques (what-if analysis, discrete event simulation, and network design) helped. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. Analytics investments are essential.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 29, 2014
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. Today, supply chain design has become a process all to its own. Instead, it needed to be steps of continuous designs. The reason?
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Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. Mistake #3. My challenge? Measure it.
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. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. Time horizon.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 21, 2013
In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They lack the greater understanding of planning and value network design. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. It is now shifting again.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 7, 2018
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. The design principle is that history is a good predictor of the future.
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. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. You got it! vs. General Mills, Inc. A Case Study.
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