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. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

It will be launched during a webinar on April 25, 2013 and through a series of reports that will run in our May newsletter and throughout the summer. However, we have found that only a few companies are improving the potential of their supply chain to balance supply chain metrics. This analysis has been fun and insightful.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.” Be Sociable, Share!

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 2013, we will continue to serve this community by expanding services. This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. This week, we are also announcing our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit to be held at the Phoenician on September 11th-12th, 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. the company is owned today by 20 organizations representing manufacturers, distributors, hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs).

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. However, they seem to fall under the conglomerate issue, where multiple business units may skew the summary metrics. The New Yorker, James Surowiecki, September 3, 2013.

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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.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is that time of year again where we feature the most viewed articles on the Cerasis blog in each of the six main categories we write about: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. . Since we started the blog in January 2013, we have published over 650 blog posts. INFOGRAPHIC] Industry 4.0:

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging. What have you learned?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. With the increase in complexity, manufacturing cycle inventories rise. Mistake #5.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

As I highlighted in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2013 , tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the preferred computing platform for business professionals, which is why technology providers are designing and optimizing their applications for these devices. Song of the Week: “Miracle Mile” by Cold War Kids.

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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. 2015 Supply Chains to Admire.

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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?

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

However, the logic Cisco uses to manage the disruption is very robust and details are summarized into the infographic below, Note: metrics data is for illustrative purpose. Metrics look very simple and its kind of nice to have something like these. In general, you may not be able to get all level of metrics. Discussion.

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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.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We have also featured on our blog over 90 guest bloggers featuring voices from experts in all of the five main categories who have talked about such subjects as the Skills Gap, Reshoring, Technology, Innovation, STEM, the Maker Movement, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain, the Internet of Things, and much much more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. It appears SO barren from my window in seat 4D. It has been a good week. In fact, it will probably be a long line.

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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 2013, we will continue to serve this community by expanding services. This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. This is my 156th blog post to 5000 readers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The The Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are a portfolio of metrics which correlate to higher market capitalization. I worked in Hong Kong for 4 years during 2009 to 2013.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 22, 2017

by Alexa Cheater From designing, sourcing and manufacturing, to distribution and consumption, your supply chain is at the heart of your customer satisfaction levels. trillion in cash according to a 2013 US Working Capital Survey. It has become a competitive weapon that could help you win the consumerism war.

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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. Also this week, I came across some interesting survey results from the Pew Research Center published in August 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The “Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire” is the culmination of a two-year effort to evaluate supply chain performance and improvement for the years of 2006-2013 by industry by vertical for publicly-held companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” The event will be invitation only for fifteen manufacturers and fifteen technologists. And, then quickly retorted holding up his phone, “but, we all know that there isn’t.”.

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Arena Solutions

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It’s getting harder for product manufacturers to compete successfully in today’s global economy. GETTING OUT OF THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RUT Whether it’s due to insufficient budgets, lack of resources, or limited performance metrics—some organizations surrender to the old way of doing things. Design for manufacturability (DFM) issues.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

According to the product sheet , “Oracle Global Trade Intelligence provides a dashboard view into the unique metrics by which your customs and compliance operation measures success. Users have the ability to modify existing formulas and / or create custom measurements of their own that suit their specific needs.”.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Transportation, and Freight. The Most Important Distribution Center Metrics to Track and Understand. >>> Read More & View the Metrics. >>> Read More & View the Metrics. According to the U.S.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

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. The leadership team at Sonoco Products aligned a metrics portfolio against a business strategy in 2010. There are three simple reasons: Clarity of Strategy.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

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. The leadership team at Sonoco Products aligned a metrics portfolio against a business strategy in 2010. There are three simple reasons: Clarity of Strategy.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

Against this backdrop, it is interesting that many companies still depend on spreadsheets for demand planning and S&OP , as noted in the recent survey by APICS ( see Are Spreadsheets the Answer , SC Digest, September 2013 ). I think so. All that brain power and no way to scale their discussion, analysis, and decisions!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. 21 versus P&G’s.19

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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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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 5, 2013

MIT CTL partner companies participated in the Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains Roundtable at MIT on November 21, 2013. On November 21 st , 2013, a group came together at an MIT CTL roundtable to address issues like these, and talk about related opportunities, barriers, and complexities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Recessionary environments cause disruptions in the manufacturing industry around the globe, leading to long lead times, shortages, rising prices, and complications in transportation lines. In 2013, Target experienced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 40 million customers. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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