Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

Many discussions focus on driving improvement through planning, yet, when I take the client case studies on the websites of leading planning technologies and map the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, I do not see metric improvement, sustained performance, or an increase in value. ” Figure 2.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In the competitive industrial landscape, efficient spare parts inventory management is crucial to maintaining seamless operations and driving profitability. Organizations require robust inventory management systems capable of handling diverse parts throughout their lifecycle.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 9, 2020

Companies that were unable to meet these challenges have been left behind (for example, in High Tech think Blackberry and Compaq). In numerous case studies, manufacturers have found that the limited visibility to shop floor activities and poor planning led to problems with over-scheduled machinery and equipment.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2016

After the merger, the operations in North Carolina grew from $4 million in inventory to $20 million, which meant adding a second 75K sqft. For example, “many of our Direct-to-Consumer [drop ship] customers want everything branded as if the order is coming from them even though it’s coming from our facility,” explained Gemereth.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The key lies in high performance inventory. Forward-looking supply chain professionals understand that inventory is not an end in itself; it’s a means – to enhanced customer service, increased profitability, and greater efficiency. What is High Performance Inventory?

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Unleashed

AUGUST 12, 2021

How food manufacturers are taking advantage of the alternative protein trend: A case study One recently launched New Zealand company, Food Nation , is proving a winner in the alternative protein space. French company Ynsect, for example, farms mealworms to produce food products for humans and animals.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For example, within an audit workflow multiple stakeholders across various regions can apply detailed market knowledge specific to their regions to the demand baseline forecast for a more accurate result. Read the full Melitta case study below. Read Case Study. Michael Youssef.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Among the many supply chain initiatives taking place today, vendor-managed inventory (VMI) has become an increasingly effective process and business model to help organizations share risk and information between vendors and customers — while benefitting from lower stockouts, reduced uncertainty and lower costs. Lower order volatility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. We find that the companies with the most marked improvement in a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are smaller and less well-known.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

We have found that nine out of ten organizations are stuck on their ability to make improvements on both operating margin and inventory turns in the same year. Let’s take the example of Colgate, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever in figure 2. And, recently, Procter & Gamble is more focused on improving inventory turns.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Here we look at how dark stores operate, how they’re profitable and why they’re on the rise – along with four examples to showcase dark stores in action. Basic warehouse racking is used to store inventory stock, which is strategically positioned for ease and speed of picking. Why are dark stores on the rise?

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month. So our main task now is to consolidate all the purchase and inventory decisions in one team. So for example, Guatemala and El Salvador, they have placed partial curfews and some quite high commercial restrictions. We had to close within one day.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The question was, “What mattered? What Worked.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. A Case Study. Let’s take P&G as an example. True leaders top the chart on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, ROIC, and customer service.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 28, 2018

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Colin Masson, Global Industry Director of Manufacturing Solutions (that's him on the left), sat down with me to discuss how manufacturers optimize their inventories. For example, there has been a dramatic increase in demand volatility and consumer demand is shifting faster than ever.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Effective inventory management is crucial to reducing costs in any manufacturing business. Good food manufacturing software provides a means to track inventory in real-time, through every step of the supply chain. Why your food inventory management system is going stale. Working with fresh food.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, the goal is not track truck location, but to provide insights on location in context with a delivery appointment. For example, will the truck be late to arrive against a pre-established appointment. So, one business use case for control towers is accessing supply chain key performance indicators. 2) Latency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But one thing you notice as you go to omnichannel software vendor’s web sites and examine customer case studies, the case studies may talk about retailers growing their revenues by 100% or more, but none talk about how much profitability grew. These new order fulfillment paths allowed retailers to rapidly grow sales.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 1, 2014

Let''s see the example of this through the simplified version of bullwhip effect as below, When demand data is not shared, each player in the same supply chain must make some sort of speculation. Real world example is that a "new boss" ask you to cut cost by 10%, improve service level by 15%, double inventory turns and so on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Terra Technology implementation is an example of demand sensing while the DDMRP implementation is an example of demand translation of the probability of demand into materials requirements. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Planting the Seeds.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 21, 2014

Companies are stuck at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin. Many supply chain consultants will quickly rattle off case studies and proof points, but the smart supply chain leader will ground the discussion with clear definitions. Slowly the words take definition in everyday speech. Growth has slowed.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 28, 2018

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Colin Masson, Global Industry Director of Manufacturing Solutions (that's him on the left), sat down with me to discuss how manufacturers optimize their inventories. For example, there has been a dramatic increase in demand volatility and consumer demand is shifting faster than ever.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.” Instead, in the SanDisk journey , they adjusted the speed of response to their customer segments, and actively designing inventory postponement strategies. In fact, the teams ignore the forecast.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 27, 2024

Every aspect of operations, be it managing the inventory, forecasting demand or fulfilling orders was dependent on human wisdom and intuition. Besides, AI is helping retailers optimize inventory, warehouse and pricing. AI-driven robots help improve in-store inventory tracking and management.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2022

Here we give you eight real-world examples of how businesses use Kanban, a popular lean tool that’s helped companies in a huge range of sectors improve efficiency – especially those in the manufacturing industry. If you already know what Kanban is and just want the case studies, scroll down!

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My Office Apps

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Caitec Doubles Business with 30% Less Overhead Using Kechie ERP Software 2020 | Case Study Challenge Caitec made the strategic decision to move from growing their business by double-digit percentages to doubling and tripling their business. T he people in the warehouse would spend an excessive amount of time looking for inventory.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You’ll also need to design a platform to enable rapid transfer, coordinate transportation and manage inventory – and your staff will need training to ensure your operation runs smoothly. Three case studies Cross docking strategies are used around the world and across different industries. Who uses cross docking?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. While some would point to companies like Amazon and Apple as examples of how to solve this dilemma, I think not. A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

At the Supply Chain Insights Global Conference in 2019, an attendee stopped me after the third case study of the Supply Chains to Admire award winner. In this blog, I share the case study of Sleep Number. As you read the case study, I hope you do as well. The Sleep Number case study is in this publication.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than ever, seasonal inventory needs to be carefully accounted for during the demand forecasting and inventory planning process , ensuring right-sized inventory that can meet customer expectations while limiting the spend and use of working capital. Benefits of Effective Seasonal Inventory Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It is about much, much more than Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI ) or Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment. An example of a global demand network is IBM iBAT. I only know of five case studies of cross-functional listening. Order Policy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. Let me give you example. There will be no videos, but we will be writing up the case studies for our September newsletter.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Automation, cargo tracking, robotics, and remote fleet management are all examples of how IoT can be used to harness organizational data and gain insights into key processes. One solution to this problem is centralized distribution and real-time inventory management. Internet of Things (IoT). Looking to the Future of Supply Chains.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Example of Supply Chain Research Following the same logic, we can demonstrate the types of researches in supply chain management context as below Jay Forrester observed that when the demand at retailing level increased drastically so that the supply side couldn''t catch up with the demand which lead to the instability of the whole supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

Let’s take an example. 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? Let me give you an example.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 1, 2014

Let''s see the example of this through the simplified version of bullwhip effect as below, When demand data is not shared, each player in the same supply chain must make some sort of speculation. Real world example is that a "new boss" ask you to cut cost by 10%, improve service level by 15%, double inventory turns and so on.

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Logility

AUGUST 19, 2024

Accurate predictions not only ensure optimal inventory management but also drive better decision-making across various sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and supply chain management. In this article, we delve into the benefits of employing ensemble modeling for demand forecasts, backed by examples and data.

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