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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

and HOUSTON, Tex. Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. BOSTON, Mass.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. Houston, We Have a Problem. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns.

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Renegade Riposte

Supply Chain Shaman

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. I get called frequently to talk to supply chain leadership teams about inventory.

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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Supply Chain Talk: Do Numbers Tell the Full Story?

Arkieva

At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. percent in Houston. For those that have worked in the supply chain, the situation is similar to reducing inventory and increasing receivables at the same time. Look again! There might be more to the story.

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The State of Holiday Shipping & Learnings for Next Peak Season

Intelligent Audit

According to the Journal of Commerce , the New York and New Jersey port backlog is increasing and leading to more instability in terms of product replenishment and inventory management in the weeks after Christmas. UPS to Houston has experienced the most delays—8.9%, followed closely by New York and Los Angeles.

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, this is not a valid assumption, and most manufacturers lack the inventory buffers for inconsistent flows. On March 16th-18th, I will be on a book tour in Europe discussing the concepts of Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Uncategorized cargo global trade inventory ports supply chain visibility'