2016 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 9, 2021
of revenue on information technology (IT), only six percent of manufacturers drove performance at the intersection of growth and margin. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Rise in Inventories.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. Reflection. The Market Response.
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Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. On average fo rthe period of 2006-2016, L’Oreal had a 17% operating margin as compared to Estee Lauder’s operating margin of 13%. (Read more to understand the details on the Supply Chain Index ,). Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 1, 2021
Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Absolutely! Absolutely!
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?”
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
With this in mind, in this blog, I make an argument that we, as supply chain leaders, have screwed up direct material procurement. My goal is to have supply chain leaders consider a procurement redesign for 2017. As shown in Figure 1, roughly one in two supply chain organizations have responsibility for procurement.
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