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Sage Advice? Only for Turkeys.

Supply Chain Shaman

The only metric that we have improved through ten years of IT investments is the revenue/employee number. Here I want to question some of it, because as a cook, I believe that sage is a best fit for turkeys, and I don’t believe I am surrounded by turkeys. I am questioning how we got it all so wrong.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

Next week I will be speaking on Retail Scorecard adoption as part of the rVCF conference, and then I fly to Turkey to speak on the Race for Supply Chain 2020. In this survey we find out some benchmark metrics on the number of demand planners per item, and the rate of adoption of demand and supply chain planning systems.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The pilot went live in October 2017 in Spain, Italy, and Turkey and included the inbound materials planning managed by the planning service center in Krakow, Poland. The reason?

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The white appliances manufacturer in Turkey, Arçelik, re-organised its manufacturing place in a limited time to be able to initiate ventilator production. This directly affects customer satisfaction and therefore improves customer retention and loyalty. For instance, due to COVID-19, a massive demand appeared for ventilators.

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What is Demand Forecasting? Importance and Benefits of Forecasting Customer Demand

ShipBob

They look at sales leading into that week last year for seasonal products like turkeys, cranberries, and mashed potatoes. By tracking these inventory metrics over time, your business can forecast growth and trend projection on a more granular level and look back to see how your forecasts matched up to reality.

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Happy New Year! What’s In Store for Supply Chains?

Enterra Insights

Changing Use of Labor Management Tools “Historically,” McCrea writes, “labor management systems (LMS) have been used to track employee time and attendance; manage schedules and payroll; comply with labor laws; and monitor workforce metrics like productivity, absenteeism and turnover.” Only for turkeys.”

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. Only for turkeys. ” He explains, “Too often companies think that more data is better. But companies that win aren’t the ones with the most data. They define the right goal to achieve. 5] Lora Cecere, “ Sage advice?