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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. Higher percentage of growth than the industry average for the period of 2006-2015. Greater margin performance than the industry average for the peer group for the period of 2006-2015. Operating Margin.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Shaman

The companies were selected based on performance better than peer group for 2006-2013 and delivering better than average improvement within the peer group as determined by the Supply Chain Index. How did you select the final list of fifteen companies ? We think that supply chain excellence is a combination of performance and improvement.

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Data is the New Oil: Competing on Logistics Data

Talking Logistics

“Data is the new oil,” stated Clive Humby, a British mathematician, in 2006. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc. to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.”

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Talent Trap

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2006, I met a man by the name of Dick Clark that traveled the world working on role definition of planners for Procter & Gamble. In 2006, I asked Dick why it was taking him so long to define the roles of planning within P&G. This year P&G will be over $83 billion in revenue. Unfortunately, Dick is no longer with us.

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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Honeywell and Schneider-Electric Orbit Charts for Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. P&G and Reckitt Orbit Charts for Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Wal-Mart and TJX Orbit Chart for Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017.

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Resource-based Theory vs. Supply Chain Management

SCM Research

3), Lavie (2006) follows the relational view, an extension of the resource-based view to networked environments ( read my previous text about the relational view ). In his insightful article, The competitive advantage of interconnected firms: An extension of the resource-based view (AMR, Vol. 2006.21318922.

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Imagine the Supply Chain of the Future

Supply Chain Insights

While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns.