Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. inventory turns. for inventory turns define best-in-class performance? for inventory turns define best-in-class performance?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

Supply Chain Design Software 166

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Align Inventory Placement With Demand. Retailers must align inventory placement , its physical location, with demand. This means moving inventory to make it closer to markets where it is sells. Download white paper.

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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. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. The reason? The implementation was very successful.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

After a year full of more scandals, indictments, political contentiousness, workplace violence, school shootings and natural disasters, maybe it’s time we all took a collective breath and focused on some of the positives that came out of 2018. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Performance metrics can be used to provide real-time feedback, which helps keep employees motived and focused on continuous improvement. Improving network-wide inventory visibility. Improving network-wide inventory visibility.

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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). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Now in 2018, we are starting to see the evolution of “Gods” with new business models that are redefining supply chain processes. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies. improvements. Not much has changed.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 25, 2019

For the last few years, inventory shrinkage has annually cost U.S. ” Regardless of how inventory is lost, shrinkage costs retailers a lot of money. To reduce shrinkage, retailers need to have a strategy to address each of the ways inventory can be lost. Inventory shrinkage strategies. Somewhere between 1.5%

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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. Inventory Turns. We eliminate the lower 1/3 of companies for the period from consideration.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Leverage Inventory as Data When systems communicate, they create inventory data, but actual inventory can be turned into data points and metrics to understand the flow of products. Download white paper.

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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). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

In a 2018 article published by McKinsey, the consulting firm, noted that despite inherent challenges, the payoff of digitally enabled agility can be staggering. Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. Effective pricing and promotions management. The Role of Trading Partners.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

The 2018 State of Logistics Report , sponsored by 3PL Central , indicates warehousing models are evolving at a phenomenal rate. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Put brick-and-mortar storage space to use for extra inventory. GET YOUR COPY HERE. Download White Paper.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In 2018, the Journal of Commerce reports that a container will have 22,000 to 24,000 twenty-foot containers in 2018. Today, this is not a valid assumption, and most manufacturers lack the inventory buffers for inconsistent flows. Uncategorized cargo global trade inventory ports supply chain visibility'

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

The 2018 RILA Retail Supply Chain Conference was a great opportunity to hear what retail leaders are focused on, and excited about, as we chart the future of our evolving industry. Challenges Ahead in 2018. Low unemployment and an aging population are likely to remain issues in 2018. As we gathered in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

The reality is that supply chain management is not just about managing orders and transportation and inventory — it’s about doing all those things while also navigating through the many risks that could disrupt your supply chain or bring it to a halt. Do we have the right Service Level Agreement metrics in place? At what cost?

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. H&M is also still enduring the backlash from an ad campaign that was said to be racist.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. feet in 2018, an increase from 31.1

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. The 2018 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain List. Inventory Turns 3. (10%). But overall most of the list was the same as 2017. In fact if you go back 5 years to 2013 you will find that most of the names are the same as on the 2018 list. Subscribe Here!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. billion (based on 2018 sales). Pricing decisions can be integrated with demand and supply planning.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For example: Optimizing a distribution network not only reduces logistics costs but, in most cases, reduces carbon emissions through fewer transportation miles and/or less inventory holding costs. Source: Nielsen Product Insider, 10/20/2018. As a supply chain manager, how do you start your journey to becoming a Green Superhero?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 24, 2022

Most of us understand that barcodes contain information that help retailers track inventory; however, few of us know much more about them. This gives a business constant access to up-to-date data, allowing it to quickly calculate meaningful metrics like inventory turn, value of inventory on-hand or sales per week by item.”

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As demonstrated by the CB Insights report, AI can learn from consumer habits in an online store and better predict and target what the consumer wants, allowing the retailer to more effectively market and handle inventory. ” Inventory management. “Inventory and supply chain efficiency is an obvious outcome of analytics.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2019

Omnichannel operations only succeed when inventory amounts and locations are known. Cognitive computing platforms, like the Enterra Enterprise Cognitive System (AILA ), can help companies with inventory management as well as myriad other challenges facing today’s retailers. ”[3]. Cognitive computing. ” Automation.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Lack of Inventory Visibility and Metrics. Carrying inventory is a necessary evil. Too much inventory means profits are eaten away by storage costs. Too little inventory and sales opportunities are lost. Poor Visibility into Inventory in Transit. They are: 1. ” 3. Overlooking Physical Transformation.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Global paper output is expected to be 4 million tons short of its 2018 level, with predictions of 416 million tons in 2022. Reuters ). Deloitte ).

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

2018 is right around the corner. Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. The seven on-line classes are: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Summer is ending.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

in 2018 but has steadily grown to 30.6% Finally, inventory accuracy can never be as high in a store as in a warehouse. According to Mr. Valdez, there were four critical improvement initiatives spanning inventory management, transportation, automation, and operational excellence. Target’s gross margin rate was 28.4%in

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

” Metrics Definition. “The organization needs to be clear on the metrics that matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. “Forecasting hierarchies need to roll up to define business requirements, and inventory needs to be reported by form and function. Footnotes. [1]

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Tecsys

MAY 2, 2018

In the January-March 2018 issue of APICS magazine, APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi contends that if supply chain leaders bring business success then that makes them business leaders. The post Supply Chain and Finance: Shared Metrics Drive Business Success appeared first on Tecsys.

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RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

Proper temperature prevents certain inventory from becoming unusable and keeps consumables safe for customers. Packaging Digest reported the global health care cold chain logistics market is projected to increase by $3-billion between 2014 and 2018. Extreme Temperatures for Special Products.

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RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

Proper temperature prevents certain inventory from becoming unusable and keeps consumables safe for customers. Packaging Digest reported the global health care cold chain logistics market is projected to increase by $3-billion between 2014 and 2018. Extreme Temperatures for Special Products.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

In a 2018 article published by McKinsey, the consulting firm, noted that despite inherent challenges, the payoff of digitally enabled agility can be staggering. Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. Effective pricing and promotions management. The Role of Trading Partners.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 147

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

The new concepts require: digital supply chain execution capabilities in transportation, warehouse, labor and fulfillment digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management effective pricing and promotions management.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 98

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Peter, O’Donovan, Gallagher, Bruton, & O’Sullivan, 2018). Quality control and overall equipment effectiveness metrics by measuring the availability, performance, and quality of assembly equipment using the improved neural networks that can learn the weaknesses of the machines and minimize their effect on production.

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