Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain resiliency and sustainability are top priorities for CEOs today. To achieve these goals, corporate leadership must focus on two key areas: shift from internally focused supply chains to collaborative supply networks and actively design their supply chains.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. Let’s look at some of the best ways to make your supply chain more efficient.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Their goals were lofty, but their understanding of supply chain planning was hazy. In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Michael Jacobs, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Ferguson. Mr. Jacobs is the senior vice president for supply chain at Ferguson. While nominally a distributor, “supply chain management is our core competency. In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools. Today, supply chain design has become a process all to its own. Ten years ago Llamasoft was an unlikely contender.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2024

Supporting hypergrowth while reducing supply chain logistics emissions is not an easy feat. Microsoft Datacenters comprise a globally distributed infrastructure designed to power the Microsoft Cloud. A clear goal needs to be combined with good data and metrics. Access to the data needed to be democratized. “We

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. Note to the reader: we selected these metrics for the balanced scorecard for the analysis after work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, most closely correlated with market capitalization. I posted my working summary.)

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained. Would you like to understand supply chain management concept but dont have time to study from a supply chain textbook ? The good news is, this article will explain to you the key principles of supply chain management that you can finish within 5 minutes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2013

We asked the IT, finance and supply chain teams to self-assess their views of organizational alignment. The supply chain view is listed in figure 1. For the supply chain team, the largest area of misalignment is between the supply chain and the sales group. Supply chains are not agile enough.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

The traditional supply chain leader focused only on cost reduction. Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. Ironically, most companies are very entrapped in measuring and rewarding functional metrics which degrades overall improvement. Sounds good? Think again.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My client attempted to have a supply chain discussion to improve flow, and his executive group just did not get it. As a result, my client became a pawn to eliminate as he drove to his goal of supply chain improvement. They were not aligned on the role of the distribution as it tied to supply chain excellence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. This article explores how digital twins are being deployed in transportation, warehousing, and network design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Time For Action. ” [link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

Time For A Supply Chain Check-Up? When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. To complete a supply chain diagnostic, I take these four steps: Step One. Here I share insights on how to get started using a four-step process.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Lora Cecere is the founder and CEO of the research firm Supply Chain Insights. I couldn’t write how supply chain had improved balance sheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. Supply Chain and Design. This was the beginning of my journey from manufacturing to understanding larger supply chain concepts. Figure 1: Definition of the Supply Chain Organization. The year was 1985.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 15, 2024

Supply chain design and optimization projects present significant challenges, ranging from complex network structures, and multiple databases to diverse business objectives. However, achieving these objectives requires a strategic approach and a deep understanding of dynamics within the supply chain ecosystem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. As companies adopt a balanced scorecard, the functional metrics shift to a focus on reliability. The layers of the outside-in process surround the traditional supply chain planning applications shown in blue. Who does it best?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. For those who are new to reading the Supply Chain Shaman blog, let me begin my analysis with a disclaimer. This acquisition is deeply rooted in LLamasoft’s goal to dominate the network design market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. I cut my teeth on early forms of supply chain planning. Like me, the traditio nal supply chain leader, grew-up believing in functional excellence and inside-out processes. The metrics reward functional thinking. The silos compete.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

One in three companies have a supply chain center of excellence, but only one in two is successful. This is especially true when the word “excellence” drips off of the lips of the supply chain leaders that I meet. A center of expertise is a collection of supply chain experts. Metrics Matter.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Are you a supply chain management professional who are looking for inspiring ideas to improve the operations of your supply chain? Background Early this year, I published one article named " 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time ".

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

One in three companies have a supply chain center of excellence, but only one in two are successful. This is especially true when the word “excellence” drips off of the lips of the supply chain leaders that I meet. A center of expertise is a collection of supply chain experts. Metrics Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

In part one of this blog series, I started the saga of the supply chain fairy tale. It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. You got it!

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Amid a tumultuous period, supply chains are even more under scrutiny following the global climate change conference in Glasgow. AIMMS Network Design provides functionality that helps supply chain teams model carbon emissions and other non-financial metrics like water consumption and carbon equivalents.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

This morning, we announced the Supply Chains to Admire Winners and Finalists for 2016. Selfishly, we need standard for our research, but we also want to help supply chain leaders gain new insights from a deep data-driven analysis. There is no agreed standard for supply chain excellence. Why do we do it?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The supply chain team was attempting to explain their demand-driven project. Figure 1: Supply Chain Risk Factors. As shown in figure 1, demand volatility has increased, the pain is increasing, and the impact on the costs in the supply chain are real. ” If this is you, stop! Where to start?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. The low Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and the growth below the industry average comes from the lack of network design and organizational alignment between new product development, manufacturing, and procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. I define digital as the rethinking the atoms and electrons of the supply chain. Supply chain planning’s goal is to improve decisions. What Is A Digital Transformation?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

For the supply chain leader it is not a game… The stake is business continuity. Gamers do well in the world of supply chain. Designing value networks and managing what-if conditions is fundamental to managing supply chain risks. In my life time, supply chains changed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In my work with Supply Chain Insights , I immerse myself in learning. I continually question my long-held beliefs on supply chain excellence. . When readers finish a Supply Chain Shaman blog, I want to drive a set of unique takeaways. Figure 1: Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking Methodology Overview.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

Warehouse and supply chain planners rely on a surprising number of technologies to achieve this. Network design is used for this. It is to have the right product, in the right place, at the right time, across an extended supply chain. There are just too many point solutions. Let me explain this.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2013

Here are four important, yet often overlooked, factors companies must consider before investing in a transportation management solution: Is it time to redesign your transportation network? to deliver sustained business value. Do you have the skills and discipline to keep the TMS tuned?

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