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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. What Is The Ring of Fire?

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Yet, the attendees wanted to discuss Lean warehousing.

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Navigating The Snails Trail: Moving to Outside-in Planning Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

The order latency is the time from purchase by the end consumer to the visibility of the order. For example, when a product at retail is purchased, the shelf is replenished from backroom stock. For example, when a product at retail is purchased, the shelf is replenished from backroom stock.

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Getting Down to Brass Tacks: Can We Really Collaborate?

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. Today, as shown in figure 2, 57% of retailers have a perpetual inventory signal in the warehouse and 47% have a perpetual inventory signal in the store. …there is not substitute for an accurate PI signal in supply chain excellence.

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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

Logistics Viewpoints

Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used. Their associate engagement survey allows Ferguson to understand the driver’s impacting engagement across their 31,000 employees. 56% of employees surveyed were engaged. Getting the Most out of People.

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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

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. We are the middle of closing the study on the use of downstream data and would love to have you in the survey. For a couple of hours I looked around the room and saw glazed eyes.