Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. They do not excel in planning or forecasting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

In the process, we learn that only 15-20% of inventories are safety stock and that the current APS frameworks do not enable a holistic analysis of the form and function of inventory. The shifts over the last decade are profound: Is the answer a Supply Chain Center of Excellence? Lack of executive buy-in. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

For a more detailed analysis, check out the Power point summary.) How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. I admit it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Before you ask, yes, there are design and simulation technologies–even a digital twin or two–but these technologies are usually deployed as ad-hoc analysis deep within a function and not used holistically. I observe that organizations are unclear on outcomes and the definition of supply chain excellence. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As companies consider purchasing new solutions based on better planning engines—machine learning, rules-based ontological frameworks, narrow AI, pattern recognition, large language models, and sentiment analysis— I ask for the use of caution. However, SAP supply chain planning is an excellent system of record. You need both.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Most companies buy decision support technology, but do not redefine work to improve decisions. Instead, focus on Forecast Value Added analysis. What Does Good Look Like? Drives Value. S&OP is a business process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. While 72% have a value analysis team, they have not matured to assess value. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. It is now shifting again.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

In fact, in our Supply Chains to Admire analysis, we find that this is true in twenty-five of twenty-eight industry sectors studied. Few companies measured the impact on error and bias through the rigor of Forecast Value Added (FVA) analysis. In the 2021 analysis, twenty companies met the Supply Chains to Admire Award criteria.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. To navigate complex and fast-paced markets, an agenda of spend analysis is introduced as a part of the procurement function. From whom are we buying? In what quantities are we buying?

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Working with Excel spreadsheets does not contribute the efficiency, speed and agility necessary for planning teams to bring the best plans to the company. This also considers elements of predictive and prescriptive analysis and in-memory processing. Figure 1 shows a dashboard that exemplifies this concept.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So, I smile, catch my dinner partner’s eye and ask, “In our prior conversations, you mentioned the lack of clarity on the definition of supply chain excellence in your current deployments and how this is a barrier to implementing supply chain planning properly. Armed with this analysis, you are ready to take the next step.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Simply put, this book tells you what really works and this help a lot with getting a buy-in and corporate-wide support. Many chapters come with "action steps" that can be used to develop an action plan right away. At the end of each chapter, a comprehensive case study is provided. Still need some more knowledge?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

While I was preparing for surgery, Gartner released the Gartner Top 25 Analysis. The analysis is now in its ninetieth year. The Gartner analysis is biased toward companies within the Gartner network. Semiconductor Industry Analysis Would you feel better about your results if you were Intel or TSMC? The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

To remain competitive, retailers and carriers must excel in the crucial last-mile delivery stage. To Build or To Buy Companies looking to implement new or improve existing delivery technology face a crucial decision: should they build an in-house platform or buy an existing solution from a vendor?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

The use of descriptive analytics along with agile planning techniques (what-if analysis, discrete event simulation, and network design) helped. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. Analytics investments are essential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel. A successful plan requires design, collaboration, simulation, what-if analysis, and closed-loop learning. What do we learn through gap analysis? ” Does the Dog Hunt? Future for Probabilistic Planning?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

(When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. This analysis needed to be completed monthly and fed to newer forms of inventory optimization technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Check out the full analysis, for over 600 public companies by peer group in Supply Chains to Admire report.) They started to preferred metric availability and preferred utilization through sales to better understand order tracking along with the analysis of customers orders were using preferred products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. 06/2020 Kinaxis buys Rubikloud for 60M$. We need to combine TOC with flow analysis to drive better answers. Ecolab, L’Oreal, and TJX are exceptions. They did it. Volume planning is sufficient.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These include problems where centrality, connectivity, and path analysis play a key role in the analysis. Let’s start here: Data Analysis. Or mine supplier shifts to build alternate buying plans. By using techniques like clustering, partitioning, and shortest path, some problems become easier to solve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Need For What-If Analysis. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost. In preparation, I am handpicking the speakers and finishing up the Supply Chains to Admire analysis for 2021. Over time, this changed.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, noted in a recent webinar that a common outcome of these failed implementations is that supply chain organizations end up in “Excel ghettos where lots of people are touching data but not improving it.”.

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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). We have built transactional buying relationships. Yes; someday it will happen, but not any time soon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. The Supply chain leader wants Technology from Company C, and the demand planner intends to purchase a solution from Technology Solution D. Avoid Badly Written RFP Bake-offs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. The key is that an excellent digital supply chain strategy starts with a clear goal rather than a list of technologies. For many tech providers, the message often becomes a religious argument. Who has the best approach?

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 31, 2015

What are the essential purchasing books you should read? In this article, we will uncover the best purchasing books to help you get the edge over competition. Background Historically, purchasing people are considered a kind of clerical workers who are expected to perform basic tasks such as document issuance and price negotiation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have also learned that you need a large data pool to derive the type of analysis that I want to publish. I also think that there is a great opportunity for increased focus on flow-path analysis and a shift from optimizing inventory levels to optimizing the form and function of inventory in value networks. I believe that it matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. Unfortunately, this PFEP “tune-up” often uses very time-consuming and manual Excel analysis that limits the frequency of optimization. It translates a buying requirement into a purchase order for requisition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Ed argued that instead of buying new packaging equipment that we should work with R&D to have a base flavor and add the color and flavoring at the head of the machine. The analysis covers the period from 2010 to 2019. The analysis includes over 700 companies across 28 industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. While the extended ERP solution architectures make look nice on paper, the reality is that line-of-business users struggle to use the data for “what-if” analysis or business analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5 As shown in FIgure 1, the fourth node is the COV of materials in planned orders/COV of purchase orders. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party. On average, it takes 2.8 Bullwhip Amplification.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. New forms of data abound–weather data, consumer insights, rating/review information, sentiment analysis—but they are not used. This reality?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. One that is going to eat you up! In part one of this blog series, I started the saga of the supply chain fairy tale.

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