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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. My search for truth led me to research. What is research? This thing called research in the supply chain market has many arms and legs. It is a dark and dismal day. The issue?

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Software Planning: Satisfaction is Like a Flip of a Coin

Supply Chain Shaman

As we prepare for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the Supply Chain Insights team is combing through the research data collected over the past six years. Companies that are better at supply chain planning are better able to manage operating margins and inventory turns. The event is on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia, PA.

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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). Help Us With Research? Our research is independent and open. What Is Risk?

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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

It is now our fifth year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies are outperforming their peer groups on the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while driving improvement. It takes us three months and two full-time research assistants to finish the analysis.

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How Supply Chain Lost Its Mojo

Supply Chain Shaman

Improvement on the key metrics of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is elusive. Just as we need free press, supply chain management needs independent research. The research I write is independent. Then it was sexy. Today, it is not. There is struggle. My goal is to break this cycle.

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Key learnings from Supply Chain Insights’ Global Summit

AIMMS

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Research shared by APICS suggested that the biggest impact on revenue, total SC cost, inventory, and adaptability is the capability to successfully link S&OP to daily/weekly tactical planning & execution.

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Planning Software: Insights on User Satisfaction

Supply Chain Shaman

As a research analyst, I am studying things that are incredibly difficult to measure. In my research, I answer questions like: Which technology systems drive the greatest satisfaction? My goal is to share insights from the research. The topics may sound easy, but they are not. What drives the highest level of satisfaction?