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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Most companies segment their supply chain by breaking it down according to operational and logistical metrics. But there is another way to segment supply chains that begins with the customer. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification?

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Why do we spend four months doing this?

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

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. This research, released in 2005, gives a compelling view of a metrics hierarchy. Bimodal Supply Chains Are a Viable Strategy.

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7 Supply Chain Challenges That Exist Today

4WL Consulting

A lean manufacturing environment should involve a shorter lead time, lesser inventory and improved throughput. A consolidated supplier base eliminates variances in inventory and reduces overheads, particularly for the supply of C-parts. . #5

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Avoid “Lost in Translation”. Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

ToolsGroup

Gartner recommends multiplying the planned unit volume: by price to generate monetized revenue plans, by cost to generate monetized inventory plans, by margin to generate monetized profit plans. 4-9% decrease in the value of obsolete inventory as a percentage of total stocked goods (product costs).

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. The seven on-line classes are: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The traditional supply chain is supply centric.

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Why Segmentation and Profitability Go Hand in Hand

BlueYonder

The conference format and size were just right to allow comfortable sharing of ideas and lessons learned about various topics from S&OP and supply chain planning, to inventory optimization and transportation. It was the general consensus of the group that there is value to be delivered from supply chain segmentation.

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