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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

Compared to peer group performance for 2013-2023, 59% of the Gartner Top 25 score below their peer group on average revenue growth, 41% below inventory turns, and 41% below their sector on invested capital. This brings me to the unveiling of the outcomes of the two-year project with Georgia Tech. The answer is not th e Gartner Top 25.

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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

Mike Carroll, a vice president at Georgia-Pacific, and Ron Norris, director of innovation at GP While Generative AI has sparked great excitement, a form of artificial intelligence called Causal AI might offer much greater potential. Georgia-Pacific (GP) has demonstrated an application of Causal AI to dramatically improve touchless commerce.

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Step Past AI Hype Drive Real Value

Supply Chain Shaman

Yawn and walk on if the answer is i mproving demand error or reducing inventory levels. On December 5th, Supply Chain Insights is hosting a small event at Georgia Tech to share the results of a two-year research effort to connect financial metrics by industry to supply chain performance to drive value. See You on December 5th?

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

We are no longer just forecasting demand but also when trucks and factory machinery are likely to break down ( predictive maintenance ), the optimal amount of inventory to hold and where it should be held ( inventory optimization) , and labor forecasting in the warehouse.

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Solving the $1.8 Trillion Inventory Distortion Problem with Karl Swensen

The Logistics of Logistics

trillion distortion inventory problem. Trillion Inventory Distortion Problem In this podcast, Karl Swensen, CEO and Co-founder of Pull Logic, discusses how their AI-enabled technology helps retailers, brands, and manufacturers reduce lost sales by addressing supply chain and selling process failure points. Summary: Solving the $1.8

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Build Political Capital to Drive Supply Chain Planning Success

Supply Chain Shaman

In our work with Georgia Tech using data from 1982-2023, we find that the R² of the Regression analysis of Cost-of-Goods Sold/Inventory Turns when compared to correlations of Operating Margin/Inventory turns to Market Capitalization/employee is 40-65% lower. For additional insights check out our presentation at Informs.

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Thirteen Years a Blogger

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite the evolution of technology, none of the 28 industry segments I follow can drive improvement at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. We paused publishing the report this year while we worked with Georgia Tech on the right balance of metrics to drive market capitalization/employee. Change is Hard.