Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. I believe that value is what you create. 3) Risky Business?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I would also like to encourage supply chain professionals in the healthcare value chain to share their opinions by filling out our survey on the current state of the healthcare value chain. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Stephen Cleminson ( @stephenathale ), Alliances Director at Ivalua, reports that a survey conducted by his company in the United Kingdom found, “87% of UK businesses see ‘greener’, sustainable supply chains, as a competitive advantage.”[4] First, they suggest a intra-company conversation take place. The post St.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As a result, I invested in building qualitative survey capabilities and built a database of twenty years of supply chain ratio data (for more on this capability reference the research report, The Effective Frontier and check out our community ). Companies cannot achieve supply chain excellence by working discrete projects in isolation.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no doubt, that the retail landscape is increasingly looking like an online one as traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, such as Toys R Us, Foot Locker, and Best Buy mobile shutter hundreds of stores unable to keep up with the changing customer that wants fast, free delivery all with just a click of a button. trillion, a 3.8

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Each survey that I do comes back with data as a major challenge. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. The company wanted to be customer-centric and focused on net-promoter scores and results of an annual survey. The problem?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Using quantitative surveys, we collected the data in Figure 1 in 2014. Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. This is why we continue to fund surveys which we share openly and freely. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.

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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.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

Each month we actively manage 2 to 4 quantitative surveys and we currently sit on over 5,500 responses. In the next couple of months we will be mining the cross-survey data for greater insights and sharing them with you in the form of infographics. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” ” Currently working on a series of surveys to help clients answer these two questions, I struggle with the current state. Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. A copy of the survey results are downloadable here (PDF, free, opt-in).

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

However, this year promises a significant paradigm shift where traditional performance metrics are replaced by technology-driven frameworks, as recent breakthroughs with Generative AI in supply chains have demonstrated. Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024. The same holds for the supply chain organization.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2015

If you leave her to build reports and metrics that she needs in excel then she’ll spend all her time crunching numbers instead of planning your company’s largest asset. I covered this last week , but I really can’t stress enough how important it is to select metrics that support all of your business goals. Hierarchies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering? Customization?

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

Our survey on Revenue and Trade Promotion Management is closing soon; and we will have some pretty strong research to pass along on this topic; but you and I both know it is going to tell us that nearly half of the trade promotions continue to produce less than planned ROI. Oh heck, why not just tackle the big one right away?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As legislation focuses ever more heavily on environmental protection though, and consumers increasingly consider sustainability in their purchasing decisions, all supply chain organisations will need to find the way forward. When they know what to look for, they can add granularity to your search for environmental performance excellence.

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

In a Deloitte survey of retail professionals , 60% reported that AI tools improved their ability to forecast demand and manage inventory in 2024. Execute in-stock, on-shelf success The ultimate test of supply chain excellence is ensuring products are actually available for purchase when and where consumers seek them.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

No Purchase Orders were used. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant's supply chain excellence. Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success.

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IQMS

JUNE 4, 2019

excel at orchestrating a variety of technologies to find new ways to excel at product quality, improve shop floor productivity, meet delivery dates, and control costs. is an excellent objective for any research effort. The survey was conducted by Market Measurement, Inc., The survey included 230 executives at U.S.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2016

Most likely the company will still need to forecast raw materials, purchased components, and/or sub-assemblies to be able to meet customer demand. Contrary to popular belief using Excel as a forecasting “system” is not a best practice. Spreadsheet Sabotage.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. Retail shops are vendors for each individual customer buying sneakers. It would make more sense to buy lemonades rather than produce them in-house. Blurred lines.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

A survey conducted by American Shipper in April 2015 found that about 60 percent of manufacturing and retail shippers plan to expand their trucking carrier base; roughly 40 percent plan to expand their ocean carrier base. Adopt performance metrics for carriers. It is still a people business. He currently serves as Sr.

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Precoro

JULY 29, 2024

In fact, 43% of GPOs that took part in the 2023 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey cited overall procurement risk had increased significantly as compared to 20% in the 2021 study. At its core, an online procurement system centralizes purchasing activities. Procurement operations are no exception. Let’s break them down.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 27, 2022

Supplier Relationship Management is the relationship that develops between a buyer and supplier, which is subject to the exigency of the goods or services purchased and supplied to an organization and dictates the nature of the working relationship that the buyer should look to nurture with their suppliers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

However, visibility of channel relationships–customer orders and consumption/purchase–in the demand network, or the use and consumption of materials in the extended supplier network, is an ongoing issue. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders). The solution failed.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 3, 2017

I would love to state the actual number here; but our survey on revenue and trade promotion management has yet to be launched. 93% of Pinterest users use the platform to plan or make purchases. Can you name the top three tactics used by sales people in planning a promotion? tic toc… buzzer! That helps a lot, doesn’t it?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2022

In this way, you will position yourself better in the market, because customers will know why they should buy from you. A target audience is a group of people most likely to be interested in buying your products. You can use SWOT analysis with market trends, competition, and buying habits to gather information for the next step.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 18, 2021

Reverse logistics is the process of goods returning to their point of origin – back from the purchaser to the manufacturer or supplier. In a 2018 survey of 1000 shoppers , 89% said they have bought an item online and returned it. A further 41% said they buy multiple versions of the same item with the intent of returning some of them.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Precoro

JUNE 2, 2025

of respondents in the KPMG survey on forecasting stated that planning, budgeting, and forecasting are all integrated within their organizations. Start by comparing your upcoming budget with past performance metrics , such as past income, expenses, and spending patterns, then analyze how the budget will perform in real-world conditions.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Sherman: In my book I talk about how the leaders live in a house of excellence. The foundation of the house of excellence is that your performance management is aligned to your business strategy so that everything that you’re doing in supply chain is aligned to that business strategy.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As legislation focuses ever more heavily on environmental protection though, and consumers increasingly consider sustainability in their purchasing decisions, all supply chain organisations will need to find the way forward. When they know what to look for, they can add granularity to your search for environmental performance excellence.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Create an adaptive unified buying process. “If you look at the typical buying process, it is bifurcated based on geography. If I am going to buy goods from this geography, then I use this process. At the very least, they should see a message indicating that the products are out of stock before they make the purchase.

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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. Commerce has changed since Retail Link was released, one of the major changes being omnichannel fulfillment. Why Luminate?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 19, 2020

It spans the purchase of raw materials to the final delivery of the merchandise to the customer, including the intermediate processing of the goods. Which data metrics are most relevant to your demand forecasting? ”[1]. .”[3] Those questions are: Where does your supply chain need faster and more accurate data collection?

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