Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Focus functional metrics to improving reliability. Tie policy to action.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the early 1980s, As a result, we did not have a perpetual inventory signal. Without a perpetual inventory signal, we were never synchronized on where to place customer orders. As a result, inventories ballooned after the DRP implementation. The metrics were not aligned. The metrics were not aligned.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

It comes in many flavors–increase in inventory, changes in sales policies, new product lines– all add to the complexity. The only industry that has made progress in inventory management is consumer electronics. It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Functional metric orientation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

The process as is implemented in many companies focuses on balancing demand and supply based on preestablished rules and policies that serve as guardrails for the planning process. Strategic placement of inventory buffers to ensure sufficient ability to absorb shocks. One off recommendations are made about facility locations (i.e.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How will the policy be executed? Today, there is not a well-defined template on how to build and operate a supply chain defined by customer policy and segmentation strategy. Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies.

Inventory Reduction 150

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RFgen

MAY 28, 2025

In this guide we walk through the essential steps to design a layout, implement labeling and slotting strategies, manage inventory with lean principles, and adopt technology solutions that keep operations agile. Balance lean inventory with resilience to supply chain disruptions. Inventory planning informs space and labor allocation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

This is often managed with the help of supplier management software or inventory management software. That’s where Procurement Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come into play. Procurement metrics and KPIs allow organisations to measure results and guide best practice performance. Undamaged shipment rate.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

She found that the best combination of metrics to evaluate total cost is a balanced scorecard of revenue per employee, operating margin, inventory returns, and return on capital employed. At the same time, sales teams need visibility into upstream constraints such as supplier lead times, inventory positions, and risk exposures.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant? No reproduction, transmission or display is permitted without the written permissions of Keller International Publishing Corp Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing

Canada 98

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. (The Order Policy. The use of customer segmentation to determine priority in matching inventory with orders during the order cycle.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. In North America, 81% of consumers said they would stop buying products from brands they learned were harming the environment. Retailers are following suit.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar Inventory is often the single largest asset on a company’s balance sheet and your inventory management process can have a huge impact on your organization’s bottom line. When you think about the priorities of your inventory management process, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? We want your feedback.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Humans will still be very much in the picture, he argued, but one of the most important elements in the relationship between human and machine will continue to be trust.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

When asked what stage in the end-to-end supply chain process maturity they were in, most people in the course said their companies were good at transactional efficiency, and were currently focused on data sharing, moving to policy development (see Figure 1). For example, inventory turns are plotted with operating margin (see Figure 2).

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Kinaxis

JULY 23, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar This post concludes my inventory management blog series. Throughout this series I’ve proposed an elevated role for the inventory manager that challenges the assumption that an inventory manager is a victim of his colleagues’ business decisions and plays only a limited role in formulating inventory results.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

During this time, the same AI tools that underwrite new technologies have been key in improving efficiency and optimizing all areas of logistics and supply chain processes including forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, manufacturing, network optimization, and more.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar So you’re an inventory manager, and your CFO just asked you to reduce inventory by 10% before year end to free up some capital for next year’s big investment in R&D. But then you look at historical trends and see that lately, your inventory has been growing by 3% each quarter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. The supply chain is a complex system and these metrics are tightly linked in non-linear relationships. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier. Figure 3: Defining Planning Architectures.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Establishment of replenishment processes, procedures, and policies to assure on-time delivery at the highest level of quality and lowest possible cost throughout the extended supply chain. From a measurement perspective the key trending metrics at a high level include: Supplier on time delivery.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 5, 2017

If your vendors do not understand your organization’s policies and procedures regarding inbound freight , how can they adhere to your needs? Approximately 54 percent of companies actively run metrics on inbound freight, but these metrics may be lacking. In other words, the term, “metrics,” can be deceiving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Q: Is it only inventory disrupting the agility resulting from inaccurate forecasts by S&OP? There are seven primary agility levers: Analysis of Form and Function of Inventory: Form of inventory is the decision of what form to hold the inventory in: raw material, semi-finished good or finished good. Is it S&OP?

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The Network Effect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

However under our new IBP paradigm, the technology platform and processes are real time responsive and the underlying enterprise social graph/supply network is representative of the actual trading environment, including the business rules, processes, policies and contracts in force between trading partners.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Cost Performance Index (CPI) is a financial efficiency metric used to measure cost performance in projects and operational activities. Depending on the nature of project, the geographical location and the existing policies, these factors can change. What is the Cost Performance Index (CPI)? The research paper by Winanda et.

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These benefits aren’t just about lower prices; they’re also about reducing transportation and inventory costs, which can really add up over time. The procurement department works with inventory and logistics teams to ensure that everything ends up in the right place without delays or discrepancies.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Are you tired of dealing with excessive inventory levels that eat up your storage space, tie up your capital, and hinder your company’s growth? If so, then it’s time to consider the numerous benefits of reducing inventory. Inventories are designed to match customer(s) demand. The same applies to inventory reduction.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Establishing new customer or supplier relationships brings with it all the data elements like order policies, cost and lead times, all of which are error prone. There are companies that have found a way to interrogate their data with standard data integrity processes, views and metrics. New supply chain relationships. Things change!

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 20, 2025

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

Compliance and Risk Management: The platform should help enforce policies with workflow automation, mitigate supplier risk using real-time analytics and AI, and support audit-readiness with centralized documentation and controls. Can Procurement Technology help with ESG and Compliance? Explore our environmental impact center.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This process involves handling returns, which can be due to various reasons, such as damage, defects, seasonal inventory, restock, salvage, recalls, or excess inventory. They may recall inventory from retailers or reprocess it because it has passed its sell-by date or demand is insufficient. Pay for the return not to happen.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

I find that the path to building an end-to-end value network usually goes through five distinct phases: improving transactional efficiency, data sharing, formulation of policy, building relationships and engaging in joint value creation. These leaders orchestrate the trade-offs between functions with a focus on shared metrics.

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