Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. The engines largely operate in isolation: they lack a seamless platform. In Figure 1, I show a Miro board activity that I like to do with groups. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Many try to start with technology. Responsive. The gap was large.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Each requires design and fine tuning. However, only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains. The strategy department in most shipper organizations sits in finance while the network design technology expertise is usually a much lower level in operations. Challenge the current state.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Each requires design and fine tuning. However, only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains. The strategy department in most shipper organizations sits in finance while the network design technology expertise is usually a much lower level in operations. Challenge the current state.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

While most consultants and technologists want to sell technology, and are eager to slap in a new piece of software, my caution is to slow down and better understand root issues before having a technology discussion. When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. They gave lip service to the need for IT standardization, but ran their process on a custom built model that enabled reverse bill of material, and profitability analysis. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. It was hard for me to rationalize the world of manufacturing that was deliberate and designed versus the emerging practices in supply chain. Supply chain design looks very different by company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. What to do? Focus Outside-In. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. What to do? Focus Outside-In. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The combination of technology along with the advancements in transportation made it possible. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. In the analysis, we study 33 industry peer groups across more than three hundred public companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Slowly, as shown in the image of the consumer value network, supply chain leaders expand the scope of their supply chain operations from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier with a clear view on the customer. The metrics reward functional thinking. Network Design Maturity Model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. The argument that I want to make here is that the supply chain problem has changed, but we are implementing the same old technologies without stopping to realign against new goals. A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. ” I am in the middle. Here I share my world view.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp., Reducing freight costs, improving supplier delivery performance, and minimizing supplier risk are three of the many benefits machine learning is providing in collaborative supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. Instead, invest in a network design group to understand your potential. Ask the team to use supply chain network design models to determine what is possible in the supply chain. You can help.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The advent of transportation management systems (TMS) in the 1990s introduced near-infinite metrics and data points into the supply chain yet brought with it more questions than answers: How do we centralize the data? Most systems are flexible enough to merge data from external sources into the algorithm architecture.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If there’s any piece of technology or analytics that can help with the most advanced data-driven decision-making in the supply chain right now, that’s prescriptive analytics. These analytics techniques serve as essential tools to transform descriptive metrics into actionable insights and informed decisions.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. Today, there are many top 3PL warehousing companies that handle warehousing, fulfillment, logistics and distribution services for companies of all sizes. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

In order to understand customer better, we divide customers into a different group and we call it "segmentation". The most primitive way to segment customer is ABC analysis that groups customer based on the sales volume or profitability. 2) Customize Logistics Network. 7) Adopt Both Service and Financial Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. The original principles of a value network that can sense, shape and translate demand with near-zero latency are being lost in the fog. The acronyms keep coming….

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. The greatest value happens when companies can link across source, make and deliver. Supply chain planning is decision support technology. Get Started.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been leading a few calls for the International Institute of Analytics, as a faculty lead for the manufacturing group. They are saying “we need to down the analytics platform, and define the roles and responsibilities of that area.”. Don’t just limit yourself to one or two data sources, but drive creating thinking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. Debra built the Gartner Hierarchy of supply chain metrics. Self-reporting of data does not meet this standard.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

New technology aims to make the supply chain more efficient, yet investing in the wrong technology further complicates productivity while hindering profitability. Sebastian Jungels @seb_jungels Sebastian is a co-founder at KAPUA , an enterprise SaaS provider, where he helps companies to improve their forecasting accuracy and speed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

Most of the concepts were new to the team; and while the group had discussed many of the ideas at a high level, they had not been able to take the conceptual ideas into implementation. I asked the group to think of demand-driven concepts as the enabler of customer-centric strategies. Buffer Design.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The linkages between the enterprise and local teams are very tight, to ensure that functionally unique applications are inventoried centrally so all parties can leverage these tools. All of these groups (supply chain IT, systems, supply chain analytics, planning and logistics analytics) participate in the Supply Chain Director’s Council.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. Brain storm the impact of the collaborative economy, eCommerce, and shared service models. As you think about the products/services sold embrace new business models.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Philosophy: What approach to supply chain fits the industry, culture, time, technology, capabilities and objectives of your organization? . My first Monday in, I asked for a full report of all our supply chain metrics, and my analyst told me he could get it to me by Friday. I told him I needed it NOW, not in a week.

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