Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 billion in 2015. The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price. percent decrease from 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. As a group, public companies want to make progress to both drive and sustain metrics performance, but they cannot.

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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. The data model will put a spotlight on the missing data. They report, “We know from extensive research that decisions matter — a lot. He explains, “Too often companies think that more data is better.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In order to achieve this target, CEVA Logistics is incorporating environmental considerations in a variety of areas of operations, from warehousing to transportation and procurement. CEVA Logistics and other Eco-Skies Alliance leaders will work with United Airlines to collectively purchase approximately 3.4

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 18, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. It all began last summer. And thus, Friends with Fitbits was born. It became a habit.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

In contrast, the demand organization that I am advocating is an analytics group that crosses over sales and marketing into supply. 2) Invest in New Forms of Analytics. Invest in technologies like demand signal repositories, demand sensing analytics and cognitive learning. Let’s make 2015 a great year! It is MUDA.

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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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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. The proliferation of the business models is exciting. Manufacturers, today, are aggressively pursuing e-commerce strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. This week, I received this email from a financial institution questioning why business leaders are not harnessing more insights and redesigning processes based on analytics. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Barring some unexpected twist, COP26 will end with an updated version of the 2015 Paris Agreement, with commitments from individual nations to reduce their GHGs but no binding, enforceable international agreement. Formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP is the most respected and widely used NGO engaged in corporate GHG reporting.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Warehouse Metrics to Track to Improve Profitability and Operations : Today’s warehouse managers often accrue massive amounts of performance data, but sometimes find they can apply little of it toward making productivity gains or customer service improvements. Read the Full Post. Download the Webinar Replay. Read the Full Post.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. It was also the preference of the consulting partners because the projects were longer, more costly and better aligned with the consulting model.

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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. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It will delay my report. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2015 Insight acquired E2open, and Infor acquired GT Nexus. Together, we built this model. It is seldom positive for the line-of-business user.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

… With an ever-complex consumer purchasing path, it can be difficult for a brand to know where exactly to adjust their efforts. Data and advanced analytics. Data analytics and cognitive risk sensing are becoming increasingly important tools for organizations.” ”[2]. CPG industry and cognitive technologies.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

What came to be known as BI tools evolved from earlier, often mainframe-based analytical systems, such as decision support systems and executive information systems.” ” Some analysts have tried to make a distinction between Business Intelligence, data analytics, and data mining.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data. We are just beginning to understand how to use sentiment data and new forms of analytics.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. It all began last summer. And thus, Friends with Fitbits was born. It became a habit.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 16, 2015

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, its income in 2015 will be 10% less than in 2014. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 Funding is lacking.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It also is increasing the number of ‘carbon neutral’ brands it offers as consumers increasingly value this attribute when they purchase a product.”[6]. Everything from procurement, to production, to logistics can be improved using artificial intelligence. Why sustainability is important. ”[6].

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o9 Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Within an organization, sustainability data is found in environmental, procurement, financial, product lifecycle, regulatory compliance, human resource management, ERP, and logistics systems (e.g., The ESG data landscape will continue to be influenced by dynamic reporting requirements, regulations, investor sentiment, and public perceptions.

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AFFLINK

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Gen Z encompasses consumers who were born between 1995 and 2015. Most of Gen Z is used to purchasing things online — even local goods. Thus, this generation is far more accustomed to on-demand purchasing. Generation Z is more likely to purchase items based on how ethical, environmentally-friendly, and sustainable the company is.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. When I heard their story, I scratched my head.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

I manage a team at Supply Chain Insights and actively publish using an Open Content research model. This Tuesday we will publish our 87th report, and our 167th podcast, in our 36th newsletter. The purchase of supply chain solutions remains a complex sale with increased power by Line of Business Leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. Order accuracy from 61% to 66%; Inventory is reduced by 5 percent; Order fill rate from 60% to 66% (Capgemini Consulting: 2015 3PL Study). Brainstorm.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. 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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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Author Michael Blanding ( @michaelblanding ) reports on the work of two researchers, Mercedes Delgado, professor at Copenhagen Business School, and Karen Mills, a Harvard Business School Senior Fellow, and how they unearthed a source of better jobs hidden in plain sight. The supply chain economy.

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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). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Scope 1 emissions occur on-site at the firm itself, Scope 2 emissions are the direct result of electricity purchased by the firm, and Scope 3 emissions are those that are embedded in the products and services that a firm purchases. In total, 397 US firms responded in 2013, reporting approximately 1.5 x 10 million = 28.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

LLamasoft acquired the LogicTools assets from IBM in the spring of 2015.) The purchase of Barloworld gives LLamasoft a strong presence in the United Kingdom, and a team on the European continent. To understand more on the inventory optimization market checkout our report, Inventory Optimization Solutions in a Market-Driven World.).

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This creates a “double whammy” effect, in that digitization is driving up the need for analytics but to truly find collaborative solutions that rely on new technology solutions, companies will need to find ways to partner. Prediction 1 – Supply Chain Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1. ROA: (2017 net income/2017 total assets)*50% + (2016 net income/2016 total assets)*30% + (2015 net income/2015 total assets)*20%. Novo Nordisk and Adidas were new additions to the list.

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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). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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