Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Our goal is to continually redefine the definition of supply chain excellence. At the end of the presentation, I ask the audience for questions. What is the best supply chain technology? There is no correlation between types of technology—company or brand—and supply chain performance.

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QAD

APRIL 6, 2023

Deloitte’s recent supply chain research highlights that 80% of surveyed manufacturing executives have experienced a “heavy” to “very heavy” impact of disruption on their supply chains over the past 12 to 18 months. Ready to take advantage of the benefits of becoming antifragile and having a dynamic supply chain ?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

I struggled to manage myself as I settled in elbow-to-elbow with the group to listen to the presentation. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. During the presentation, I squirmed uncomfortably in my seat.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

An AI-first era for supply chain management DemandAI+ presents a groundbreaking solution to the intricate task of aligning sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain functions throughout the S&OP planning process.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Human Component of Digital Supply Chains. A vision of a completely automated and seamlessly integrated supply chain may be presented, where machines use AI and ML to adapt, solve problems, and respond to supply and demand changes. Technology is flashy and captures attention in the boardroom.

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QAD

MARCH 29, 2022

In Part 1 of our recent eBook series, Delivering on the Promise of Delivery, we explore the impacts and root causes of poor supply chain delivery performance. In Part 2 , we present our roadmap for improving supply chain delivery using 24 essential supply chain processes, and the five business areas in which they fall.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From the array of presentations shared during the conference, I have distilled several key insights: Fostering Collaboration: Disruptions, such as UAW strikes, COVID-19, and chip shortages, have become the new norm, occurring with greater frequency and magnitude.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Over the last decade, supply chain performance regressed. Currently, supply chain performance is a barrier to economic recovery. If John were at the coffee pot, I would love to hear his response on why the analysts and supply chain leaders select under-performing companies in the Top 25.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

The UAE’s strategic location between East and West, with access to a vast consumer base across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, presents an opportunity to serve as a central hub for food storage and distribution, contingent upon addressing key global food logistics challenges.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Brands like American Eagle Outfitters focused on inventory optimization and flexibility, supply chain transformation, lower SKU counts and fewer shipments per order for improved supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. When I finished the presentation (the materials are available on slideshare.) Why do supply chain professionals believe that they have made improvements when they really have not?

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2014

How do supply chains fail even when they appear to succeed? Dan Gilmore, editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Digest, has an interesting take on this question. In an article entitled ‘ Metric Strategies and Supply Chain Performance ’ Gilmore suggests that many companies have KPI targets that are too low.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 21, 2017

by Iman Niroomand Supply chain performance depends on the matching of product features with supply chain features. When a new product hits the market, the existing supply chain that is optimal for a given set of product lines will not stay optimal.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 15, 2018

BME Global Pharma Supply Chain Congress is Europe’s only true peer-for-peer event for Supply Chain Leaders in pharma, medtech and global healthcare. LogiMed is a focused conference for supply chain VPs and directors from medical device and diagnostics manufacturers. 15 – 18 (National Harbor, MD).

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over 300 people, including SC Digest Editor-in-Chief Dan Gilmore, listened as Willems re-drew the classic graph of trade-off assumptions for pairs of co-dependent supply chain variables such as service level vs. total supply chain cost, stock-out rates vs. inventory levels, on-time deliveries vs. transportation costs.

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Supply Chain Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With nine out of ten companies stuck in their ability to improve corporate performance through advancements in supply chain, the discussion at the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit was not a rehash of the past. Instead, the group was challenged to think about supply chains differently.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 11, 2020

This made SKF unwieldy, unable to react quickly enough to changes and limited its possibilities to further develop its supply chain performance. Digital transformation enables automated supply chain planning. These are just a few examples of simple questions that the digital twin can answer about the present.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Basic concepts and strategies such as performance measurement, identification of improvement opportunities and development of supply chain system are presented succinctly. At the end of each chapter, a comprehensive case study is provided.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

My friends would tell me to relax and get my Groove on b ut, I find myself deep into a presentation for a client’s design thinking session next week. They feel over-confident in supply chain performance because WMAPE hides the issues of demand variability with lower volume shipments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Item complexity is a silent killer of supply chain performance. ” So, the next time that you see a presentation on delivering an integrated end-to-end supply chain, ask, “how are you managing the risk?” A focus on safety stock is not sufficient. ” Instead it will be about technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Performance over the Period of March 2020 to July 2022. Supply chain leaders self-assessment of performance during the pandemic period of March 2020-through July 2022. Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Join the Guiding Coalition to Improve Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Spinnaker Management Group asked me to co-present on a demand-driven webinar with SanDisk. While I do not consider this case study as a good example of demand-driven processes, I do believe that they have done some great work on implementing a customer segmented supply chain based on postponement. I like Kehat’s story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Recently, I presented at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum. The presentation before me was by a supply chain leader of Mondelez. His goal was to emulate Dell’s cash-to-cash performance. (I Average Supply Chain Performance in Food Value Chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

I will present the testing of outside-in processes results first at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , then a week later at the Blaze conference for Project Zebra, followed by a presentation at the ASCM conference and the University of Wisconsin Executive e-business Consortia at the end of September.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

One upon a time in a land of OZ, 110 supply chain leaders gathered in the desert to discuss supply chain progress. As they reflected on supply chain performance, and the lack of resiliency and ability, it felt bad. Nine out of ten were stuck. The fairy tale had ended. It was a perfect storm.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published last week , “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation.” A total of 137 respondents completed the survey from Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics Service Provider, and other companies in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

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Locus

JULY 10, 2023

Sadly, legacy systems lack the intelligence needed to gather data and transform it into actionable insights, leaving companies with no visibility over the kind of deep-seater inefficiencies that are hampering supply chain performance.

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Logility

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Throughout 2020 — as we listened to our customers and worked with them to use technology to optimize supply chain performance in the face of serious headwinds — a few themes began to coalesce and indeed demand our attention: Given that one disruption gives way to another, what is the correct business goal?

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o9 Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2021

All of the women acknowledged that STEM is still very male dominated and that presents unique challenges for women to gain visibility and have ideas respected. To learn more about o9s activities and how to engage follow us on LinkedIn. The post o9 Invests in the Next Generation of Women In Stem appeared first on o9 Solutions.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I also learned that there are a lot of similarities between the Heavy Building Materials supply chain and the Domino’s Pizza supply chain. Back to the main conference, I gave a keynote presentation titled “Keep Your Breadcrumbs Behind My GeoFence: Why Fleet & Freight Visibility Matters.”.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

According to E2open’s latest Supply Chain Innovation Report, the top action that organisations foresee to create a more resilient supply chain is diversifying their supplier base (40%). BE READY FOR THE NEW NORMAL.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Taking Your Supply Chain to the NeXt Level. Our goal: provide End-to-End solutions that continually optimize and improve your supply chain performance. The agenda of this event has been built around the Supply Chain challenges of tomorrow and how to answer them.

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Demand Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2015

I discussed the importance of putting useful supply chain performance measures in place for 2015. We've created a presentation with ten supply chain New Year's resolutions. Please download the presentation here. To put it simply, the New Year is always a good time to see things through a new lens.

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6 River Systems

AUGUST 12, 2021

In many cases, as business leaders make planning decisions to capitalize on the new opportunities that this economy presents, the labor challenge can make it seem impossible. Leaders must find successful organizational balance, to tap into the immense value that both people and technology bring to their supply chain performance.

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QAD

JULY 21, 2022

Economists have blamed product shortages such as semiconductors and the present spike of inflation, to an extent, on the bullwhip effect,” reports a recent article from BusinessThink at the University of New South Wales. Connected Supply Chain. Causes of the Bullwhip Effect.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

My guest post today comes from Wolfgang Lehmacher, who presents a white paper prepared by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with BVL International. The report, titled Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Supply Chains , provides preliminary considerations for Fourth Industrial Revolution-driven supply chains.

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QAD

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’re also thrilled that our podcast continues to attract distinguished guests who are central to the automotive supply chain’s past, present and future. Whether you’re new around here or an avid listener, I urge you to take your learning to the next level with our whitepaper, “ The 24 Essential Supply Chain Processes.”

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