Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. AGCO’s culture of innovation policy deployment enabled employees to pioneer a technology solution for manufacturing. Improvement in Digital Manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

Manufacturing has been the lifeblood of the global economy for hundreds of years. Because manufacturers have historically moved factories to regions featuring cheap labor and few regulatory restrictions (sometimes referred to as outsourcing or offshoring), a misconception has arisen about the importance manufacturing to national economies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs. The reason? The result? The reason?

Gartner 243

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. Why do we spend four months doing this? Congrats to all. Industry Bias.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

When Cisco saw news of wildfires in Colorado in 2012, it wasn’t concerned, because it had no manufacturing or suppliers in the area. The post Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H. This post is credited to Dr. Yossi Sheffi.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

It started in manufacturing and spread, step by step, to improvements in the way the company runs its supply chain. This manufacturer already has business continuity plans in place. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. It takes time.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Based on literature review by Behdani et al 2012 called " How to Handle Disruptions in Supply Chains – An Integrated Framework and a Review of Literature ", academic articles in this area is centered around 2 themes, namely, Risk Management (before disaster strikes) and Disruption Management (after disaster strikes). Literature Review.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Medical Device Manufacturer. While hospital supply chain organizations have made progress in the last decade, the gap has widened between the supplier sectors of pharmaceuticals and medical device manufacturers and other manufacturing industries. Published by Supply Chain Insights in November 2012. The problem is us.

Modeling 240

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. It is important not to confuse those metrics with the circular economy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

A balance sheet analysis shows that 95% of publicly traded manufacturers are stuck (when compared to peer group) at the intersection of growth and margin, margin and inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and growth. We don’t have a clear industry definition of supply chain excellence.

Gartner 198

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

Comparison of Owens Illinois Versus Sonoco Products for the Period of 2000-2012. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. OI) is a $7 billion manufacturer of glass bottles while Sonoco Products is a $5 billion manufacturer of paper packaging. Each of the supply chains had a different target in the metrics portfolios.

S&OP 101

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

Comparison of Owens Illinois Versus Sonoco Products for the Period of 2000-2012. Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. OI) is a $7 billion manufacturer of glass bottles while Sonoco Products is a $5 billion manufacturer of paper packaging. Each of the supply chains had a different target in the metrics portfolios.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2021

My first training in 2012 was with Ideo. Remember the need for goal clarity, rules, and clear metrics in my opening paragraph? In the design thinking workshops for multiple manufacturers, these were conspicuously absent. Lessons Learned From Design Thinking.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We founded Supply Chain Insights on February 9th, 2012. Over the course of 2012, I feel that we made a lot of progress. This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. It has been one year. One year later, we are an eight person team. The work has been hard.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. a bushel, the highest price since July 2012.

Material Savings 207

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 4, 2013

At the age of 58, I buried my mother in November 2012. Abby and I are writing an e-book on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. Likewise, in today’s supply chain environment, I find that supply chain leaders favor a single function of logistics, manufacturing or sourcing. I have never been an athlete. Measurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The most popular posts are on demand management and Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. In 2012, I am proud that we have published 24 reports, completed 14 quantitative research studies and have had over 72,000 views of our work on Slideshare. Over the course of 2012, I feel that we made a lot of progress.

Gartner 186

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. On the federal government front, President Obama signed an Executive Order Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts on September 25, 2012.

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BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2023

With omni-channel fulfillment, automation, labor, and sustainability trends accelerating, we believe that this placement reflects our innovation-driven culture that is inspired by our customers in the manufacturing, retail, and third-party logistics (3PL) industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. We produce there because the regulations say that you need to manufacture there to sell there. Service level is our most important metric.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

I was guilty of this from time to time when I led a demand-planning group because we were evaluated on forecast accuracy as one of our key metrics. Forecasts need to be set and left unchanged to facilitate stable and efficient downstream purchasing, inventory management, and manufacturing capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

He explains, “Many of the materials that are utilized during manufacturing exist solely within the confines of the supply chain and never exit it in the form of the product or packaging. As the name implies, a circular economy is one in which the loop between manufacturers and consumers is closed. ”[4]. ”[4].

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. With a strong manufacturing culture, much of the focus was on lean production systems. I was challenged on this in 2012 by a client, and it forced me to do deeper research. I started this research in 2012 with the writing of Bricks Matter , and it continues today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Abby and Mikey on my team have built a database of financial ratios from publicly available balance sheets from 1995-2012. We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. reference Carbon Disclosure Project 2012).

Inventory Reduction 262

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Based on the work I was doing on financial metrics, and studying the Supply Chain Effective Frontier, I was convinced that companies cannot effectively model the required trade-offs of good supply chain decision-making in S&OP using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are insufficient. I wished Steve good luck and closed the call.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“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. __. Tipping points are fascinating to watch.

Manufacturing Procurement 286

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

As I’ve commented in previous postings, if you are a 3PL or transportation company and you’re not involved in cross-border shipping with Mexico, then you are missing out on a growing business opportunity (see Reuters article from December 2012).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Because he had reduced his buffers—both inventory and manufacturing—and had built a push-based supply chain using a forecasted demand signal, he was failing in many markets. It is a slow week. Most of my friends are on vacation. It is tedious. Related.

Supply Chain Design Software 280

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

QAD acquired DynaSys in 2012. We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. to a Global Major actor. We demonstrate our continuous will to improve by frequently reviewing our organization and our methods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. In July 2012 E2open went public on the NASDAQ; and in March 2015, after a series of financial earnings disappointments, Insight Venture Partners funded E2open to become private.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2013

These examples point to a key metric that’s emerging for quantifying the value of social networking : Time-to-Resolution. According to a McKinsey & Company report from July 2012 , “[social networking technologies], which create value by improving productivity across the value chain, could potentially contribute $900 billion to $1.3

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2017

KPIs in Manufacturing: Let’s start with manufacturing. We might also use a KPI to track adherence to cost standards within manufacturing; for example, to see how effective a yield we get from a fixed number of man-hours or a fixed amount of material. Some KPI Examples. What examples of relevant KPIs can you give?

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mariotti states that you first have to measure it, and he outlines several metrics and techniques in the book, including ranking customers by annual sales, profit, and gross margin percentage. How do you reduce supply chain complexity, or at least slow its growth?

Waste Reduction 100

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