Talking Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2023

Talking Logistics launched a decade ago on January 29th, 2013. And just like that, it’s been 10 years. The crazy idea for launching an online video talk show about supply chain and logistics popped into my head while cross-country skiing a few weeks earlier. The very first episode was just me sharing my supply chain.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 9, 2024

The analysis compares companies to industry performance in each sector for 2013-2023. The Supply Chains to Admire methodology is a data-driven evaluation to attempt to define excellence. Now in its tenth year, the Supply Chains to Admire analysis studies improvement, performance, and value on reported financials for over 500 public companies.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Founded in 2013, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network (“Cainiao”) is a technology company and the logistics affiliate of Alibaba Group. It adopts a collaborative approach to logistics with an innovative and open data platform that improves efficiency and customer experience for all players along the supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 15, 2022

I wrote that back in February 2013 in. I believe we’re witnessing the birth of a new transportation mode, one that will take many years to develop and mature (but will probably happen sooner than we think), and one that will make our current discussions about driverless cars and same-day delivery sound silly in retrospect.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

turns in 2013. Kellogg posted 19% margin in 2013 and 6.96 turns in 2013 but fell to 11% margin and 6.05 Orbit Charts for Kimberly-Clark and Kellogg for 2013-2022 A good friend of mine, asked, “Isn’t this the impact of the pandemic.” This work completed in 2013 defined the Supply Chains to Admire.

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Discuss your answers to these questions at our upcoming Twitter chat happening on November 28, 2013 at 12pm CET. How do you plan on addressing forecasting and demand sensing next year? What upcoming trends will you be leveraging? We’ll be featuring @JanineOlariu as a guest in our one hour discussion. Who should join?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

Orbit charts of four companies for the period of 2013-2022 at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Orbit charts of four industries for the period of 2013-2022 at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. This is despite investment in people and technology. As I write, I scratch my head.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The survey responses were divided into three periods: 2013-2015, 2016-2019, and 2020-2022. (I Many followers answered my surveys, and over the past six months, I mined the data to try to answer the question of what we can learn from the past decade to improve planning. Rethinking Work The winds of change should help us redefine work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

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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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Quintiq (@Quintiq) September 19, 2013. Quintiq (@Quintiq) September 19, 2013. Collaboration between all links in your supply chain is essential to achieving solid forecast accuracy. Forecast leaders with higher #forecast accuracy have better service & lower stocks, says @FreekAertsen #DemandPlan2013. It’s not rocket science.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

I am looking at the data for 2000-2013 for several reasons. I define the resiliency measurement as the tightness of the pattern at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2000-2013. Strength, Balance and Resiliency will each count 30% of the total index with the peer-valuation counting 10%.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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. We find that this is true of too few companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Orbit Chart: Eastman Chemical Versus the Market for the Period of 2013-2022 To overcome turbulence, if you are a global manufacturer larger than 5B in annual revenue, consider building a solution as shown in Figure 2. For me this is a good example of why traditional supply chain planning techniques are not sufficient in a volatile world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2020

And that number could be even higher when you factor in those near misses of the 2007, 2010, and 2017 Patriots, 2012-2013 and […]. Every Big 4 team has won at least 1 championship over the last 20 years and the cumulative sits 12.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 30, 2014

According to the 2013 Gartner-Supply Chain Digest survey , while 85% of respondents believe that flexible supply chain applications are critical, only 42% say their current software provides that flexibility. And here we come up against another reason for a supply chain agility gap.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 15, 2021

Back in April 2013, I asked the question, “Will Supply Chain Software Vendors Start Competing On Design?” Here’s an excerpt: One of the things supply chain software users like to complain about the most is the user interface (UI). This was true 15 years ago when I started as an industry analyst, and it’s true.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

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.

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TradeGecko

APRIL 14, 2020

As a matter of fact, Apple’s Supply Chain has led Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25 list since 2013. But few people know that the way Apple handles inventory is also a factor that led to success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sanofi Performance Versus Peer Group for 2013-2022 Similarly, I find 35% of companies following the pack not able to drive resilience in the face of market shifts. The performance in 2022 is almost the same as that in 2013 (note the circular pattern). Challenge this paradigm.) Eleven out of twenty-eight sectors do not have winners.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’m having a throwback Thursday moment as it was back in 2013 I made the case for Excel in a blog post titled, “ Hey software bullies, stop picking on Excel.” What’s different is that “Beyond Excel in Supply Chain Planning” adds a sense of urgency that was lacking in my throwback 2013 post. I used the golf analogy in my 2013 blog.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Supply Chain Index Rankings for 2006-2013. As we can see in Figure 2, the impact of Campbells aggressive supply chain projects in 2012-2013, in conjunction with some changes in the business, as Dave predicted, had a deleterious impact on Campbells rankings on the Supply Chain Index. Conclusion: Figure 2.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 25, 2025

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

Instead, you book the biggest conference room in the building and invite a cross-functional team to review what happened in 2013. To get ready for your meeting ask each person to write down the number of “oops” moments, or issues, that they felt in 2013. Figures 2 and 3 are some examples.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In a 2013 survey by Business Continuity Institute of over 500 business continuity professionals from 71 countries, 75% of respondents reported that they did not have full visibility of their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Update 9 Sep 2013 : I just come across one interesting discussion on Quora saying that Amazon actually named one of its building " Wainwright " after its first customer and this customer still have the original book and packing slip with him. Then the word "empty chair" becomes a symbol of customer centric business practices inside Amazon.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2013, SwanLeap is a leading transportation, consulting, and technology firm specializing in supply chain best practices and cost reduction strategies. About SwanLeap.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

Early 2012 marked the end of the third decade and 2013 finds us into the fourth. Supply chain management, as a practice in commercial operations, is now thirty years old. When we look backwards and use the results on corporate financials as a litmus test on supply chain excellence, we find that: We have made Improvements in Productivity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 9, 2013

The study was completed by over 120 respondents in the period of June-July, 2013 and the complete study can be accessed on the Supply Chain Insights website or through slideshare. We wanted to understand where companies are at in the adoption of big data concepts and we had a good time writing the report on the research. What Did We Learn?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

Distributors are also governed by the 2013 Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which outlines steps to achieve interoperable, electronic tracing of products at the package level to identify and trace certain prescription drugs as they are distributed in the United States.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Organizational alignment in manufacturing organizations is worse between operations and finance teams today than in 2013. To make the point, let me share data on alignment taken from similar surveys from 2013 and 2020. Figures 6 & 7: Organizational Alignment in 2013 and at the Start of the Pandemic in 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

A blog from Atlassian explains that “until about 2013, companies usually built enterprise software by constructing applications as single units with large codebases, a monolithic architecture. Much of that investment is at the platform level. Most of the large suppliers of supply chain applications have moved their solutions to the Cloud.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2024

Medline’s first AutoStore went live in 2013. And through that, we’ve invested more than $2 billion back into our manufacturing footprint, our distribution footprint, and technology and systems to make sure that we’re continuing to be very resilient.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Cyber Risks of Building Automation Systems: The Target Hack If you don’t think cybersecurity for the built environment is a risk, consider the well-publicized cyber attack on major retailer Target back in 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

To do the analysis, we cross tabbed multiple studies that we completed in 2013 and 2014 and then enriched the data with our financial ratio data base. Based on the work that we have been doing on the Supply Chain Index, and gauging supply chain improvement, we wanted to understand how improvement in alignment improved inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 11, 2014

In 2013, 80% of supply chain leaders had a material supply chain disruption. “This is not a supply chain process. It is a new way of doing business.” ” Financial Leader in Discussions on Demand Sensing. It was not just one. The average company had three.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. Performance of High Tech and Electronics Supply Chains for the Periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. Third Phase: 2013-future.

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