Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

This means routinely bringing together the C-suite, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and marketing teams so everyone is seeing, working from and agreeing to an aligned plan that achieves optimal business outcomes. Assess root causes, adjust plans, and debate course corrections. Answer: you review KPIs, current and trended.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. To change course, learn from history, to unlearn to rethink outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

Fortunately, there are numerous courses available to help you develop your expertise in supply chain management, regardless of your level of experience. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the top 10 supply chain management courses that can take your career to the next level. Ratings of each course will also be included.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A year after launching, however, a supply chain executive said to me, “ Talking Logistics is like an online Executive MBA course, with live lectures and guest speakers every week discussing timely and important topics.” I encourage you to check out the course and let us know what you think.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Food manufacturers, over the course of the last decade, have pushed costs and waste backwards in the supply chain. billion company, manufactures glass containers with headquarters in the Midwest. It cannot be about singular metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Over the course of 2012, I feel that we made a lot of progress. Over the course of the last year, we had 360 individuals from over 300 companies that participated in the research process. This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. And, it is working.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

They can then use the data to provide an apples-to-apples benchmark on a variety of innovative supply chain metrics applicable to the grocery supply chain. In other words, if manufacturers cannot deliver everything that retailers are ordering, then there is a service failure. Forecasting Accuracy Was Terrible . 2020 was different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Over the course of the last decade, his story is the same. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

I was surprised as I have evaluated balance sheet progress of these leaders over the course of the last year. Over the course of the last year, Abby Mayer ( @indexgirl ) worked with the Supply Chain Insights team to build a database of 20 years of information with over 50 supply chain financial ratios. Publication of our next book.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Over the course of the last week, I have been working on healthcare research. Medical Device Manufacturer. While hospital supply chain organizations have made progress in the last decade, the gap has widened between the supplier sectors of pharmaceuticals and medical device manufacturers and other manufacturing industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

Contract manufacturing or 3PL data often will have a 24-hour latency due to batch integration. When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. 2) Latency. 3) Granularity. Master data. The devil is in the details.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 4, 2013

Abby and I are writing an e-book on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. Likewise, in today’s supply chain environment, I find that supply chain leaders favor a single function of logistics, manufacturing or sourcing. Companies that are not looking holistically at metrics are stuck. It will publish in the early summer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. export regulations led to supply chain disruptions. That’s all for this week.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

No company in either the household non-durable (consumer goods) or the food manufacturing group beat their peer group on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for 2013-2022. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. In High-tech, there is greater ownership of the “inventory metric” across the organization. A decade ago, the supply chain had two buffers: inventory and manufacturing. I am a skeptic. I want to believe. I really do.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. 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.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. The metrics are also manual as automatic metric systems cannot retrieve the information at an hourly frequency as these metrics are process inputs and not outputs. Specific metrics: process metrics and outcome metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. These are mainly North American-based manufacturers, distributors and retailers.) Correlations Between Survey Factors and Financial Metrics. Shown in Figure 1 is an example of resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. We analyzed the impact of 150 factors on 493 financial metrics for the period of 2004-2016. With the flurry of M&A, industry consolidation, outsourcing, and downsizing, the gaps for North American manufacturers are increasing.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy).

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2015

Customer expectations of reliable quality and rapid delivery forces today’s manufacturers to either shorten cycle times or lose business. There are multiple good models for lean manufacturing operations. “5S” programs are taught in some business college courses, and the SCOR model is also utilized.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. Manufacturing KPIs. can be measured to define this metric. can be measured to define this metric.

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QAD

APRIL 13, 2023

While Contract Pharma & BioPharma manufacturers continue to experience an increase in demand for more projects, new challenges are emerging from nearly every angle including new regulatory and quality requirements, workforce shortages and of course, supply chain disruptions. is likely to reach 2.1

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards. As an industry analyst, over the course of the last ten years, I have worked with all of these companies. Over the course of the decade, Colgate maintained margin of.21

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here explain what DSI is, how to use it, and why it’s crucial to track this metric in your business – whether you’re a retailer, manufacturer, wholesaler or distributor. For manufacturers, it’s about understanding how long the process takes from receiving inventory to manufacturing a product and achieving a sale.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

And of course during the deployment their organizational structure has changed and they have gone through some M&A activity in that time. The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The most popular posts are on demand management and Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. Over the course of 2012, I feel that we made a lot of progress. Over the course of the last year, we had 360 individuals from over 300 companies that participated in the research process. This is my 156th blog post to 5000 readers.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2023

The result is, of course, an unhappy customer and the likelihood that for the next incident, they will be looking for another service provider or third party. There are simple metrics, which indicate the linkage between parts availability and additional sales. What did you think about that?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Over the course of the last year, I have written about this extensively. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks. They are slow to adapt.

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Synovos

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In one case, a long-time packaging manufacturer changed its reporting structure, putting in place a new manager responsible for the MRO supply chain. Over the course of any client engagement, the calculus for material savings changes, priorities and focus areas evolve, as does the strategic direction of the provider.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Of course not… But, the industry is in a group think. Tomorrow, I get to deliver this message to a large manufacturing client. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter.

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