Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. The focus of the transportation suites was on cost mitigation and price negotiation. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2021

Informational Technology groups reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. Focus on functional metrics without alignment to a balanced scorecard to drive value. Over the last decade, in the building of global supply chains, organizations grew more political with gaming on metrics. Belief in efficient procurement.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. It is generally calculated as a percentage of total deliveries that were complete and on time. About Andrew Lynch.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. Scenario and simulation based planning methods that quantify and weight various short and longer term impacts of global events toward key business metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. The gap between logistics and procurement; and logistics and customer service increases process latency. Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs. The issue is not revenue.

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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. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. Photo Credit: Changi Airport Group. We want to support and enrich these local communities through what we do best: logistics and transportation services. The CMA CGM Group aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. It is generally calculated as a percentage of total deliveries that were complete and on time. About Andrew Lynch.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. While Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may be reviewed quarterly or monthly, the speed with which supply chain operations occur makes a daily view of more tactical and operational metrics a growing necessity.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

According to the June report summary , the primary driver of the latest decline was the inventory metric, which reportedly contracted 6.5 Consequently, the warehousing capacity metric increased a reported 6.8 Both metrics contributed to the overall contraction in the LMI along with contracting price levels for transportation.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This index compiles 27 different variables to include transportation movement and costs, global PMI sub-indexes reflecting delivery times and order backlog. Interestingly, Transportation Utilization is the outlier here, as both utilization metrics in the index were up significantly in September. ”. for September.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 5, 2017

A Peerless Research Group (PRG) report indicated that up to 44 percent of supply chain entities do not actively have plans in pursuing or using a transportation management system (TMS), such as the Cerasis Rater. Approximately 54 percent of companies actively run metrics on inbound freight, but these metrics may be lacking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Financial ratios allow us to analyze performance across the peer group (large against small companies) and across currencies. We also look for companies that have out-performed their peer groups.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This report, Supply Chains to Admire , compares the progress of 200 companies within their respective peer groups on both performance and improvement. There are three reasons why: Vertical excellence—having the best manufacturing, procurement or transportation function—has not worked. Aligned Metrics. ” Yes, I said.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Transportation utilization reportedly dipped a hefty 9.5 Consequently, transportation prices reportedly declined 8.9 not only described as a “ significant rate of contraction ,” but also the first time that this particular metric has reached such a low level. Consequently, transportation prices reportedly declined 8.9

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

This index complies 27 different variables to include transportation movement and costs, global PMI sub-indexes reflecting delivery times and order backlog. Specifically indicated by report authors for the July report: “ Fueling this deflationary pressure are levels of growth in available Transportation Capacity (reading in at 69.1)

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

” In this team activity people who do not know each other list four statements and ask the group to guess which statement is false. As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

It was my first time working with this group. The group laughed. ” The group was quiet as we discussed the fact in the traditional organization that functional silos are not designed to work together. When all functions are jointly focused on improving these metrics, then we can have one team. It was not measured.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

This index complies 27 different variables to include transportation movement and costs, global PMI sub-indexes reflecting delivery times and order backlog. The April report specifically indicates t hat after 23 consecutive months of contraction the index of Transportation Capacity shifted back into expansion, bumping up 11.2

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

On the other hand, only 8 percent of companies that were rated by their executives as less than significantly above average on supply chain-related metrics have the same performance. The post Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 11, 2013

In my previous article on the evolution of transportation management, Driving Value from a Transportation Management Center: Think Global, Act Local , I discussed how transportation best practices were evolving from more rigid, centralized control towers to more flexible and collaborative Transportation Management Centers (TMC).

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Organizations can rapidly identify distribution routes that do not meet OTIF metrics, are congested, or are simply unprofitable – not only at the supplier level but also at the product and store level. to guide appropriate regional capacity requirements for both individual location and point-to-point requirements.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

While shippers face the difficult market conditions of tight capacity and increased consumer demands, they are also being challenged to find transportation cost savings and improve customer satisfaction. They found that common attributes of Leader groups include: A rationalized truckload carrier base.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The country’s strict zero-tolerance strategies related to curbing Covid-19 omicron variant infection rates has resulted in a considerable number of production, transportation and services disruptions during this year. based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The country’s elderly populations are especially at risk.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Due to the enhanced visibility of data and metrics across peer groups, sales leads have improved their customer service by walking prospective customers through the operations process and comfortably answering any queries on how success is measured. Overall, MDI provides organizations with key takeaways and measured KPIs.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

While shippers face the difficult market conditions of tight capacity and increased consumer demands, they are also being challenged to find transportation cost savings and improve customer satisfaction. They found that common attributes of Leader groups include: A rationalized truckload carrier base.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

While shippers face the difficult market conditions of tight capacity and increased consumer demands, they are also being challenged to find transportation cost savings and improve customer satisfaction. They found that common attributes of Leader groups include: A rationalized truckload carrier base.

Optimal Sourcing 48

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In effect, data overload blunts your ability to take advantage of the tremendous analytical power offered by advanced transportation management system (TMS) solutions. The data is not aligned with the specific needs of the functional group. It’s easy to get bogged down in streams of data generated by inappropriate metrics.

Analysis 48

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The responsibilities, metrics, skills, strategies and mandates for each function can cause people to put their functional focus ahead of the greater company objectives. The term “Supply Chain” is more than just the name of the group that manages materials and logistics. The Role of the Supply Chain Team. Conclusion.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Command Alkon organized a Leadership Roundtable with a select group of industry executives from all segments of the HBM ecosystem to discuss “The Data We Have vs. The Information We Need.” Streamline, automate, and compress Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes. So, what are some of the data challenges the industry faces?

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TMC

JANUARY 14, 2016

In effect, data overload blunts your ability to take advantage of the tremendous analytical power offered by advanced transportation management system (TMS) solutions. The data is not aligned with the specific needs of the functional group. It’s easy to get bogged down in streams of data generated by inappropriate metrics.

Analysis 54

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Simulate the CO 2 footprint of the plan through procurement, production, and transport. Chris Cunnane ( @ccunnane ), a Senior Analyst with the ARC Advisory Group, writes, “More and more companies are looking to reduce waste and turn their supply chain operations into a circular economy. ocean plastics, product takebacks).”

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2016

Today we interview Bob Ferrari, executive editor of the blog Supply Chain Matters ( www.theferrarigroup.com/supply-chain-matters ) and founder and managing director of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group. We talked to Bob to see what we might learn from that experience. What is the makeup of your blog audience?

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