GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . Top 10 Supply Chain Articles from 2015. Read the full article here. .

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2017

The second part of Drucker’s quote, “if you can't measure it, you can't improve it,” really brings home the importance of having the right set of metrics. In the field of supply chain management, we have created an abundance of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). requires a different set of metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the orbit chart in Figure 2, you first will notice that both VF is less resilient than Nike and that from 2015 to 2019, Nike outperformed VF. Their supply chain results in 2019 are worse than in 2015, and this was before the pandemic. This was the case for the client stories that I will share in this blog.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To help, in this blog post I share industry trends. For each metric we show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period. Metric Performance for Discrete Industries. Tonight I am writing the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report on the High-Tech Industry, and the Research in Review for 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To help, in this blog post, I share industry trends. For each metric was show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period. Table 1: Metric Performance for Discrete Industries. We are heads down on reports for our last newsletter for 2015. Revenue-per-Employee. So, what can we learn?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my blog readers. This is my 440th blog post and the tenth anniversary Supply Chain Shaman. Most supply chain leaders cannot get their groove on because they generalize–the use of the same metric targets and tactics for the supply chain without paying attention to the flows. Wrong Metrics.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As I explain in my book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, October 2015), companies can improve their disruption detection capabilities in a number of ways. The post Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 19, 2014

This year, we will publish two new books: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and The Shaman’s Journal. In 2015, it is our goal to publish another new book, Lessons in Supply Chain Leadership. Supply Chain Metrics That Matter will publish in December 2014. Each book takes a new twist on the old topic of supply chain excellence.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 24, 2016

Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week. Most companies segment their supply chain by breaking it down according to operational and logistical metrics. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification? That’s necessary for continuous improvement and operational excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Higher percentage of growth than the industry average for the period of 2006-2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

When your phone rings, and you and your supply chain team is called to the corporate office to talk about the expansion of your ecommerce strategy for 2015, here are my recommendations: 1) Embrace the Each. Some of the packages on the trucks moving right now are the first shipments of Metrics that Matter. What do you think?

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This blog highlights key strategies from these recent forums on sustainable procurement and practical tips to achieve impactful results. This approach often involves using standalone or point solutions that focus specifically on sustainability metrics and reporting. C above pre-industrial levels.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Year-over-year Improvement at the Intersections of the Metrics. It is for this reason, that we are hard at work on the analysis of the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series of reports.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

Orbit Chart for Kimberly-Clark and P&G for the Period of 2006-2015. 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. Orbit Chart of Colgate for the Period of 2006-2015.

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Kinaxis

MAY 21, 2015

by CJ Wehlage On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. All that being said, here’s my early 2015 “Not So” Bold Predictions : #5 P&G, #4 Unilever, #3 McDonald’s, #2 Amazon, #1 Apple.”. The 2015 Top Supply Chains were #1 Amazon , #2 McDonald’s, #3 Unilever.

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Logility

MAY 7, 2020

Key Performance Metrics: The ability to identify and measure KPIs will help prioritize and measure transformation efforts. www.forbes.com , 2015. DHL Research Brief, 2015. www.logility.com/blog , 2017. Common Data Platform: Enables visibility, analysis and performance measurement of cross-functional processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Writing a Shaman blog post is now a Sunday night ritual. When readers finish a Supply Chain Shaman blog, I want to drive a set of unique takeaways. It is for this reason, that we asked companies participating in our 2015 Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking to share raw data. If you would like to participate in 2015, let us know.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

When full-year public data becomes available in April, we take each industry and analyze results over the period of 2006-2015. We believe that supply chain excellence is driving improvement while averaging a higher level of performance in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. It is one of the reasons that I left Gartner in 2010.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Translating corporate targets into specific team goals and building them into each function’s performance metrics helps embed sustainability into regular workflows.” ” Smithsonian Magazine, 17 March 2015. [2] 8] Meredith Somers, “ Is it up to business to save the planet? ” Smithsonian Magazine, 17 March 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 11, 2015

Too few companies understand that the supply chain as a complex system with finite and non-linear relationships between the metrics. This month, we will publish our 2015 Handbook on S&OP Technologies in our monthly newsletter. Companies also struggle to get to data. Have we missed anything?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. I take independence seriously. This is my 310th post.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

Wearable healthcare works by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. They work by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. The company’s revenue has sat around US$1.5

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 20, 2017

by Teresa Chiykowski This is the second blog post in our three-part series discussing ways to improve supply chain collaboration. In my first blog post in this series, I touched upon one of the biggest challenges companies operating global supply chains face today. 1 Kinaxis TechValidate Survey, October 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

My blog post is written for you to understand what needs to happen… While companies need to be good at forecasting, and redefining forecasting to be outside-in is needed: it is not sufficient. Let’s make 2015 a great year! ” If this is you, stop! Improving forecasting is not the answer. We can do this together.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

Organizations working on digital twins have already seen, on average, a 15% improvement in metrics such as sales, turnaround time and operational efficiency, as well as an improvement upwards of 25% in system performance.’”[6] Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [4]

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In this blog post, we share the story of VTech. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Download the app, and listen when you get a chance.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I will write more on this in my next blog post.). In this blog, I hope that I push you too. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter. Attendees at our 2015 Global Summit.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 2, 2015

While you’ve got a quiet moment to relax and catch up on your reading, check out these editor’s picks from the Quintiq Blog. Read the blog post to find out. You’re already halfway through 2015, but has your supply chain improved from last year? Read the blog post. Read the blog post to find out.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

In 2015 Insight acquired E2open, and Infor acquired GT Nexus. After a very tough decade, the Supply Chain Operating Network solutions were evolving with strong development plans during the period of 2012-2015. . She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. But, until we meet, here in this blog, I want to give the renegade’s riposte.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2022

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [7] He explains, “Too often companies think that more data is better. They define the right goal to achieve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). 2015 Supply Chains to Admire. Delivery Metrics: Perfect order delivery although good to continually refine. and Singapore. We strive toward operational excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

An example of social listening is the Lenovo Case Study presented at the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. An example of the use of customer segmentation into push/pull decoupling points was the Sandisk case study from the 2015 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Like the Shaman blog? Market Drivers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. It is morning in Orlando. The sun is rising.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

As a student of the social sciences, on this blog, I want to continually share insights to drive new levels of thinking. And, let us know if there is interest to participate in our benchmarking efforts in 2015. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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