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 are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. Look at the purchase of materials as a buy-sell transaction. Originally healthcare suppliers sold to physicians.

Modeling 236

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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?

Procurement Analytics 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence.

Supply Chain Design Software 297

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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?

Vendor Strategies 55

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence.

Customer Service 285

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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).

Manufacturing Procurement 102

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

There is an inverse relationship between margin and supply chain excellence. Zimmer’s strategic framework focuses on growth, operational excellence and prudent capital allocation. Leaders need to start a system to improve measurement and tie performance to buying incentives. I don’t think so. It matters more. My Challenge.

Supply Chain Planning Software 289

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The report’s findings, based on a survey of indirect procurement professionals, demonstrate that the need to improve operational efficiency and eliminate internal complexity is the biggest reason for adoption. ” Respondents to the RS and CIPS survey share this view. “It

Optimal Sourcing 52

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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.

Manufacturing Procurement 98

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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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.

Pharmaceutical 167

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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

Prescriptive Analytics Software 161

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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?

Analytics Software 238

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For example, if a company’s shipment gets stopped by customs at the border, they may be required to show where it was manufactured through proof of purchase orders and invoices. In parallel, companies should leverage Resilinc to issue surveys to suppliers. When an event happens, they rely on Excel sheets and hundreds of phone calls.

Supply Chain Strategy 58

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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.

Inventory Management Software 100

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Supply Chain Insights

MAY 10, 2017

I have never been a survey taker. And for at least that long, I have consumed every report based on surveys among the industry trade press, analysts, consulting firms and vendors. We are about to release a survey that is going to look a little different from those you have already completed over the years. Not really.

Survey 110

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 165

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. This starts by clearly defining the roles of each function, and then focusing the cross-functional teams on the same metrics. “Lucky me,” I thought, and smiled.

Manufacturing Procurement 285

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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.

Inventory Reduction 150

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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.

Supply Chain Design Software 98

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 84

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

Ten years ago, Amazon was an online book retailer, yet today a family can buy a wide variety of items, including groceries with next day delivery. ” We recently completed a survey of over 90 retailers to understand this dilemma. The traditional metrics within each silo are a barrier. eBay, GiantNerd.com., Amazon Effect.

Supply Chain Design Software 256

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 56

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 11, 2021

As a pain point revealed in the HICX Supplier Experience Management Survey , Charlotte explains that the ‘new normal’ has cemented the need for more efficient communications across the board. We have clear metrics that talk about payments on time to suppliers, or, if they raise an issue, how quickly is that getting resolved.

Procurement Analytics 52

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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.

Sourcing Strategies 90

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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.

Inventory Reduction 150

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Vinculum

MAY 11, 2022

Here is a list of the metrics to strengthen the multichannel strategies: 1. In these metrics, you have to deal with channel-wise sales in a great way to manage the sales metrics more broadly. On the above-mentioned metrics, one can quickly go for the sales in a greater way to enhance the promotion in the multichannel platform.

Cost Reduction Strategies 52

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

JANUARY 9, 2021

So, if you want to keep your customers close, ensure your satisfaction with solutions that help them achieve the goal that generated the need for that purchase. This is an important way for your team to ensure that customers will not face future difficulties with the services or products purchased. What is Customer Success.

Purchasing Training 52

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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?

Optimal Sourcing 283

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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.

Reverse Logistics 98

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SupplyShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

The easier you make it for suppliers to give you data, the more likely that they’ll buy in, start tracking their sustainability KPIs, and provide high-quality answers to the questions you ask. Right now, supplier survey fatigue slows down operations. Or, you can rely on solutions that auto-calculate these metrics.

Sustainability 52

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 31, 2020

It measures on-time delivery performance and tracks metrics through a supplier scorecard given to all vendors working with Publix. . Publix calculates this metric monthly and reported to vendors. . However, the grocery chain evaluates scorecard performance when assessing brand purchasing decisions.

Vendor Strategies 52

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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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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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?

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. This includes the automation of the list and driving demand before the store, driving demand in the store, mining the data from checkout and listening to sentiment post purchase. I give them credit.

Analytics Software 291

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HICX Solutions

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In our second interview in the series on ‘Solving the Procurement Data Dilemma,’ which supports a full survey carried out by HICX and Raconteur on the subject, Gren Manuel speaks to Richard Wilding, OBE. It is therefore key that these are taken into account and monitored as part of the procurement function.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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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.

Forecasting 100

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