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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. The orbit charts, once you get used to them, are an effective way to measure trends.

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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. The supply chain is a complex system and these metrics are tightly linked in non-linear relationships. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier. It requires work.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

This analysis helps us to see the trends It is a study of year-over-year progress. Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Consumer products companies experienced slow growth while the food and beverage leaders faced declining–often sharp–market trends. It is a strong downward trend.

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. Build sensing capabilities: look for the trends that you do not know.

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

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Debra built the Gartner Hierarchy of supply chain metrics. In this work, Debra would take a month of forecasting, inventory and other supply chain data and evaluate trends. In this work, there were over 85 companies and Debra looked at correlations between the metrics to determine the relationships.

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Trying to Throw A Light On Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Feeling very green, I stumbled through the airport and found my way to my seat on the plane from Brussels to Philadelphia. <The I invest 25% of the proceeds of my small bootstrapped company into quantitative and qualitative studies to understand trends in supply chain excellence and gain insights on the views of business leaders.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

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I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. In the research I notice three trends: 1) Demand Planning Is Stronger than Supply. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September.