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How Can You Seize Opportunity If You Cannot Manage Risk?

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. 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)).

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Don’t Perpetuate the Hoax of the Gartner Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

It is now owned by Gartner Group and used as a commercial tool to drive client engagements. Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Year-over-year Improvement at the Intersections of the Metrics. Companies compete.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

In today’s supply chain, these traditional assumptions are usually false; yet, we try to use old-fashioned tools to drive better decisions without testing the output of the systems. 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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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. At each round, employees gain an understanding of the value of supply chain decisions through the sharing on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Three courses are scheduled for in Philadelphia. How does it help? Training. 1200 per person.

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How Do I Know If I Am Ready?

Supply Chain Shaman

I also continued to work on the manuscript for the book Metrics That Matter to publish in the fall of 2014. The implementation of demand sensing puts the fate of the company in the hands of an optimization tool. I will be landing soon in Philadelphia. The book is now a very worn manuscript. Break Paradigms. Related.

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Are You Feeding the Beast? Or Driving Progress in Your Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

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. In short, this major manufacturer and a well-respected supply chain leader, lamented the lack of good decision support tools and the singular focus of his IT team to focus on ERP implementation.

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AGCO: Driving a Digital Manufacturing Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

The new tool had to be integrated into AGCO’s work environment. Google Glass in its original form was not very useful on the floor, since it did not allow for typing, connecting to current tools, or storing passwords. Instead, they needed a tool to gather the information and to report back as needed.