Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimate that, by the year 2030, 2.1 BCG analysts report, “The average North American household wastes approximately 130 pounds [of food] annually. By any metric, the situation looks grim. 3] Staff, “ Closing the Food Waste Gap ,” Boston Consulting Group, 2022. [4]

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimate that, by the year 2030, 2.1 BCG analysts report, “The average North American household wastes approximately 130 pounds [of food] annually. By any metric, the situation looks grim. 3] Staff, “ Closing the Food Waste Gap ,” Boston Consulting Group, 2022. [4]

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Event The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) recently concluded its ASCM CONNECT 2023 North America Conference. While schools view these metrics as positive to their programs, they sometimes do not seek businesses input to the desired skill needs. “ Starting salaries are second only to data engineers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

In Figure 1, performance better than average for the peer group is highlighted in light green. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Overall, in the industry, there is more forward momentum in consumer products sector than the food/beverage peer groups. They cannot be grouped together. It is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Three weeks is substantial and may tip the hand to reshore more manufacturing into North America. I will meet with a small group of supply chain leaders to discuss analytics and supply chain organizations at the Shaman’s Circle on Amelia Island and I am preparing to do a focus group session for Elemica early next week.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the beginning of 2022, our published Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains included among others, a prediction that a heightened cycle of acquisition activity among enterprise and specialty supply chain technology providers will occur. Customers span not only Europe but North America.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

In addition to the procurement executives, I also got to meet Captain Dick Phillips, the captain of note in the film “Captain Phillips” We had a chance to talk about his experience, and he also presented to the group about the incredible experience he went through. In addition, I sat in on a set of interviews on the main stage.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. It strained production functions and increased the need for trucking services, which led to falling performance metrics that rippled across organizations.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

In the wake of COVID disruptions and the financial advantage earned by companies focusing on ESG despite major market uncertainty, investors are rapidly recognizing the strategic importance of these metrics as well. In fact, nearly 70% of consumers in North America think it’s important for a brand to be sustainable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For the past four years, as we have done our work, we have tracked Novo Nordisk’s continued improvement against the pharmaceutical peer group. As shown in Table 1, based on continued improvement initiatives, the Novo Nordisk company outperforms their peer group in all areas except inventory turns. She joined Novo Nordisk in 2012.

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QAD

MAY 16, 2019

The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Odette International are releasing the fifth version of the Materials Management Operations Guideline/Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE) assessment this summer. supplier selection and assessment, new product launch, use of metrics in the supplier assessment process). What is MMOG/LE?

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

In the wake of COVID disruptions and the financial advantage earned by companies focusing on ESG despite major market uncertainty, investors are rapidly recognizing the strategic importance of these metrics as well. In fact, nearly 70% of consumers in North America think it’s important for a brand to be sustainable.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I joined Blue Yonder as a finance director, and at the time, was supporting the North America professional services team and then moved on to support professional services globally. From back office to customer journey, to communications to metrics, and strategy. What’s your career journey been like at Blue Yonder?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

We wanted to see which companies were driving the fastest rate of improvement on the supply chain metrics that matter. In this process, we asked L’Oreal to comment on how they drove greater improvement than their peer group in cost and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) in the cosmetics and beauty category. Here I share their story.

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Locus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

percent in North America in 2022. First Attempt Delivery Rate: The Metric for CEP & Retail Success. In 2021, retail e-commerce holiday season sales in the United States amounted to about 213 billion US dollars. Forecasts suggest that online sales for the holiday period would grow by about 2.5 Where does Locus fit in?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Metrics are critical as well. Prior to founding FourKites, Matt spent 7 years in the enterprise software space working for market leaders such as Oracle Corp and i2 Technologies/JDA Software Group. But be wary of setting “moonshot goals” that may take years to achieve.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 27, 2013

An explanation offered by Christensen was what he coined“The Church of New Finance,” in which business school professors act as the high priests that indoctrinate their MBAs into a belief system of complex, ratio-based financial metrics as the only correct system of measurement.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

At automaker BMW Group, for instance, plant employees can walk up to seven miles per day. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site. Moving around a large factory can be exhausting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. More and more vessels will be committed to the China/Europe lanes causing an increase in costs for Asia North America.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. The goods flow through 2 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 66 final mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. The company recorded 1.9

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Enterra Insights

MAY 10, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. A unified data model allows the transference of a plan across different models, groups, and systems. … Shortages and price hikes will abound.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. North America Simulation Output. The reason?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. Famous Pacific Shipping Group ). Air cargo carriers in North America posted an 11.4% Deloitte ). Wall Street Journal ). Automotive News Europe ). Wall Street Journal ).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

based Albemarle providing upwards of 100,000 metric tons of battery grade lithium hydroxide to supply 3 million Ford EV batteries starting in 2026. Volkswagen’s recent announcement of plans to open a battery production facility in Canada to support North America production needs has some elements of such a strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

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. Greater margin performance than the industry average for the peer group for the period of 2006-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The teams feel good because cash-to-cash metrics improve; but in many cases, in the joyous celebrations, companies do not realize that they have reduced capabilities with suppliers and not made improvements in inventory. To help, we are sharing all the work we have done on maturity models and supply chain performance metrics.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 3, 2021

The survey results highlight the growing importance of sustainability, with 59% of logistics executives (and within that group 71% of those in consumer manufacturing industry) planning to offer flexible delivery windows for online orders to maximize sustainability. Importance of Sustainability is Growing in Logistics. Canada, or Mexico.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Top companies now collect from customers over two weeks faster, pay suppliers nearly three weeks slower, and maintain less than half the inventory of typical companies in their industry, according to new working capital research from The Hackett Group Inc. Companies came out of the recession knowing they need cash to survive.

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Freightera

JANUARY 31, 2017

In north America, 80% of the trucks return empty , and 30% of the trucks on road are empty. In north America, 80% of the trucks return empty, and 30% of the trucks on road are empty. DPM is a Group 1 carcinogen, causing lung cancer and associated with bladder cancer.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

However, the mechanisms for cash management have historically been fragmented with The Hackett Group estimating that some $6tr is locked up in supply chains across North America and Europe alone. Companies recognise that cash is critical to fund innovation and growth, enabling them to compete in this new world order.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

They also lack process controls and metrics. It’s only been a couple of weeks since I wrote that convergence in the 3PL industry is accelerating , pointing to the number of large M&A deals announced in recent weeks, including UPS buying Coyote Logistics and Geodis Group acquiring Ozburn-Hessey Logistics. Some things never change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. Balance: The ability to balance a portfolio of metrics to maximize market capitalization and free cash flow. My journey of sharing these insights with clients has culminated in the writing of my second manuscript, Metrics that Matter.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: $14.2 Sanchez 13.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Mobile apps can generate reports and monitor performance metrics. David Armendariz is the general manager of the Information Technology practice group for Lucas Group. Mobile apps: Pulling these reports several times a day can be tedious and leads to performance not being monitored in real-time. David Armerdariz. Lucas_Group.

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

million metric tons (or 60% of the world’s supply). million metric tons. firm Freeport-McMoran and Eurasian Resources Group. The famously idealistic Silicon Valley company has pledged to source all of its cobalt in North America. Where Do Companies Get Their Cobalt? It’s followed by Australia, which has 1.2

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

million metric tons (or 60% of the world’s supply). million metric tons. firm Freeport-McMoran and Eurasian Resources Group. The famously idealistic Silicon Valley company has pledged to source all of its cobalt in North America. Where Do Companies Get Their Cobalt? It’s followed by Australia, which has 1.2

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