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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. How do you balance the trade-offs between source, make and deliver?

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Rockwell Automation: Supply Chains to Admire Winner

Supply Chain Shaman

The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Orbit Chart for Rockwell Automation at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The orbit chart in Figure 1, shows the relative rate of improvement at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for the period of 2006-2017. Orbit Chart for Rockwell Automation at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the Period of 2006-2017. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. Most deployments focus on functional excellence–manufacturing, transportation, customer service or procurement. This is a form of visibility.)