Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. I don’t care what you call it, but network design, what-if analysis, simulation and digital twin approaches grow in importance.) Tougher than most understand. Companies participating get a copy of the results.

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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 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. So I started this book as a summary of this research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Network Design Analysis.

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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. Instead, it needed to be steps of continuous designs. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solutions are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. The key solution for this is network design. Supply and network design models are constraint-based models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

Active Work on Design and Modify. The use of network design technologies, in combination with inventory optimization technologies, drives a higher level of satisfaction for the Center of Excellence. Network design technologies are growing up and becoming part of enterprise architectures. Metrics Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

Active Work on Design and Modify. The use of network design technologies, in combination with inventory optimization technologies, drives a higher level of satisfaction for the Center of Excellence. Network design technologies are growing up and becoming part of enterprise architectures. Metrics Matter.

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TransAudit

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Network Design Today’s supply chain networks optimize for linear material flows. Capturing value after the initial use is not generally part of the process and processes are not designed for reverse logistics in many cases. Develop circular economy knowledge and skills through training programs and pilot projects.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

Network design is used for this. Supply chain design solutions look at long-term demand projections and then calculate how many warehouses are needed, and where those warehouses need to be located, to meet targeted service levels at the lowest possible cost.

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CHAINalytics

AUGUST 25, 2021

As warehousing undergoes a fundamental shift with the onslaught of e-commerce, it’s imperative that organizations identify the specific drivers that impact performance, establish e-commerce-relevant metrics, and continually monitor performance to navigate this transition successfully.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Supply chain design looks very different by company. Today, three out of four companies greater than 10B$ have a network design group that averages seven people. So, how do companies get good at supply chain design? It is about changing traditional paradigms and building the processes to make design a priority.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

This acquisition is deeply rooted in LLamasoft’s goal to dominate the network design market. LLamasoft Is Aggressively Aggregating Network Design Software Assets. LLamasoft is pushing for dominance in the network design optimization software market. I mpact #2. Growth: Eye on Global Expansion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics. The Effective Frontier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Slowly, as shown in the image of the consumer value network, supply chain leaders expand the scope of their supply chain operations from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier with a clear view on the customer. The metrics reward functional thinking. Network Design Maturity Model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. While innovation has slowed in Enterprise Resource Plannning (ERP) and Supply Chain Planning, I am bullish about some of the innovation coming from the supply chain network design technology providers like JDA, Llamasoft and Solvoyo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. The issues include: Level of granularity. Time horizon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Supply Chain Design. Ad hoc design planning often focused on a function of the supply chain. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The digital twin allows for internal operations as well as customers to view the various processes, along with detailed metrices throughout the facility. Another notable project launch is the DB Schenker’s digital twin. This allows customers to reduce or compensate for CO2 emissions along the entire supply chain. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. As a result, in this time of increased variability, organizations are more reactive. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. As a result, in this time of increased variability, organizations are more reactive. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. As long as companies are motivated by functional metrics, inventory management will be an enigma. Transition functional metrics to focus on reliability. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Mistake #5.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Metrics used to evaluate these new books are as below, 1) Citation count from Google Scholar 2) Number of reviews found on Amazon.com 3) Editorial Opinion Citation count is a standard way to evaluate any publication. So, customer''s review on Amazon.com (3 stars or more) is also used as a metric.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 19, 2024

At the mid-level, the RMC manufacturer concentrated on the key drivers to optimize network design. By analyzing key metrics like travel time, return travel, and time spent on-site, the company was able to make data-driven decisions. Customers were categorized into different tiers, each receiving tailored service levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2013

Use tools like network design optimization and simulation modeling to help people model trade-offs. Supply chain centers of excellence help with metrics alignment, and product portfolio alignment, between finance and the supply chain team, and the supply chain team and marketing. The value proposition still holds.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

There are many forms of decision support—price optimization, revenue management, transportation planning, spend management, network design. The design principle is that history is a good predictor of the future. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. They have become best-in-class at network design and they are very active in the use of advanced technologies for inventory optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Tactical forecasting helps us to think through the questions of long-term asset strategies and sort through network design optimization alternatives. If you want to read more on this topic and understand the impact on the value chain results, consider picking up my new book Metrics that Matter , for reading over the holidays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

The increasing need for constantly analyzing these trade-offs across the supply chain networks has highlighted the need for digital twins and what-if capabilities in network design solutions. This means continuously assessing the trade-off between the total cost to serve and meeting customer demand and minimizing lost sales.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

build alignment (driving goal congruence), building reward systems (defining a cross-functional set of metrics to align to the strategy) and defining the right reporting relationships (the S&OP process needs to report to the profit center manager). Effective modeling and network design and planning by design are key factors.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 13, 2015

American Shipper advises transportation managers to: 1) Work towards achieving visibility across all modes with an emphasis on the application of metrics to reinforce the value of visibility to all stakeholders in the organization. Sure, cost is a valuable metric for gauging success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

They lack the greater understanding of planning and value network design. Some helpful reports include: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: The Cash-to-Cash Cycle. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on the Pharmaceutical Industry. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: Driving Reliability in Margins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. With a traditional focus on network design and inventory flows with their GURU product, LLamasoft is getting more serious about tactical supply chain planning. It is morning in Orlando.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. In this period, a combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence on future profits, and speculation in individual stocks, made investors overlook traditional metrics in favor of confidence in future technological advancements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” Use The tactical planning horizon to make asset decisions, determine the best network design, design form and function of inventory, and establish sourcing strategies. Strategic Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

Companies are aggressive in the design of inventory buffers with active work through network design to build the right push-pull decoupling points, implementation of supplier monitoring and score carding, and the development of business continuity plans. The common threads are prevention, and readiness.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. Ranking of Supply Chain Books We're sure some of you've been using Google Scholar to find related publications. The links below are #paid links.

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