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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

To build an outside-in model, and use new forms of analytics, we must start the discussion with the question of, “what drives value?” ” Traditional planning models optimize functional processes to improve cost and customer service. A focus on cost throws the supply chain out of balance.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, the organization reported that net sales decreased 2 percent to $19.5 The use of the supply chain as a functional organization within the organization to reduce costs. It does not fit into traditional supply chain models. Here I share three examples from very different industries. General Mills is an example.)

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Rates, Rejections and Red Tape – Reading the Market Before It Moves

Freight Waves

Still Foggy at the Top – What the New Logistics Report Means for the Rest of Us For all the hope around trucking bouncing back, the new CSCMP “State of Logistics Report” just affirmed what most small carriers already feel: Things are still off. Get real with your costs: Don’t expect market rates to do the work for you.

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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. For example, a cost improvement in one function could raise the costs in another. Error is error, but is it the most important metric?

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Preparing to Run Supply Chains at the End of the Second Global Economy

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain leaders were slow to adopt advances in Big Data Analytics. In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. Procurement was operating in isolation from supply chain. – Technology Evolution Outpaced Adoption.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Outside-in Planning: Modeling based on channel and supply network signals. This week, I was at Informs Analytics Conference.

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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. Prediction 1 – Spend Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).