2001 Metrics Price Reduction 
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 5, 2016
During the conversation, he thanked me as an ex-Gartner analyst for putting Ariba on problem-watch in May 2001. The market shift was dramatic, and if we had made a series of small cuts in staff or direction, we would have had the same fate as i2 Technologies or Manugistics. We could not afford death by a thousand cuts.
Logility
AUGUST 25, 2020
. $100M in lost sales and 20% drop in stock price in one year. Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. Lean organizations focus on eliminating waste in their supply chain at every stage. Tri-Valley Growers. Bankruptcy. Labor utilization.
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Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
He sold the company in 2001 when the company had achieved revenues of about $10 million. Amazon paid $785 million, a price that at the time seemed outrageous but has since proven to be an excellent investment. It should not be possible to another company in that ecosystem to step in and eliminate a fast-growing young company.
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. ERP is valuable to improve transactional accuracy, but I can find no evidence that investments in ERP have reduced inventory or improved cash-to-cash cycles. Don’t get me wrong.
Supply Chain Insights
JANUARY 18, 2018
The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. For me, most of the time, it feels like a lion in sheep’s clothing.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Shifting demand and rising prices for cotton and orange juice. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” It is not feasible to reduce this error to 30% MAPE. Inventory strategies and processes to absorb the error.
Talking Logistics
MARCH 2, 2017
Next, align your service level expectations by rewarding outstanding performance and standardizing metrics about on-time delivery, invoice accuracy and communication. Last but not least, create efficiencies and offer value to your carriers, shippers and 3PL, such as reducing costs and improving carrier margins, among others.
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