Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This integration includes tracking individual components and collecting data on environmental impact, including sustainability metrics such as carbon footprint and recyclability. Invest in Training and Education Comprehensive training programs are essential to ensure employees understand both the technical and regulatory aspects of DPPs.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2017

The late consultant, educator, and author, Peter Drucker, is often quoted as saying "you can't manage what you can't measure.” The second part of Drucker’s quote, “if you can't measure it, you can't improve it,” really brings home the importance of having the right set of metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Now, let’s take consumer products. What can we learn?

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2015

by Andrew Dunbar The modern day inventory manager described in this series is the backbone of your company’s inventory planning process. She has a strong understanding of supply chain fundamentals and is an expert at controlling the key levers impacting the inventory company’s investment in inventory. Closed Loop.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. Inventories increased by 44% due to supply chain volatility. Inventories grew year-over-year by 43%. Coming off a period of high growth, companies are struggling with margins and inventory. See the pattern?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

The techniques to improve agility are improving data transparency/insights, use of attribute-based planning, design of push-pull decoupling points, pooling of inventory, and configure-to-order/make-to-order manufacturing. Inventory as Waste. Manage inventory as a liability. Inventory as a Buffer. Frustration.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Most of the pre-pandemic Inventory Management strategies were centred around improving inventory turnover, keeping inventory levels as low as possible, and reducing the amount of cash tied up in inventory. What should our post pandemic inventory priorities be? Pre Pandemic Inventory Management Priorities.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sales, Inventory, Operations Plan (SIOP) is a process within many successful supply chain organizations that recognizes the integral relationship between all departments in the company, but how do you piece together an SIOP process? SIOP stands for “Sales, Inventory, Operations Plan”, not to be confused with “S&OP”.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

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. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. I encourage all to do this modeling in simulation to educate executive teams.). Build Teams.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A barcode inventory system allows goods to be tracked along the supply chain and within a company’s storage facilities. It uses technology such as barcode scanners and barcode inventory software to improve the accuracy of your inventory management processes. What is a barcode inventory system? Let’s get right into it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. By doing this, they could potentially save the company millions of dollars in excess inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the discrete industries we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee, and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. For each metric we show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period. Inventory Turns.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For many people who work in Supply Chain Management, or for those on the outside, it functions on the foundation of processes, formulae, and metrics. This is very much the core of Supply Chain education and certification as well. It begins with Education and Certification. (Infographic). Stuck in the Mechanics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the discrete industries, we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. For each metric was show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period. Inventory Turns.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 4, 2020

Along with its AI-driven demand forecasting and inventory planning software, ToolsGroup has introduced new customer support offerings for COVID-19 planning as well as educational resources including the ebook “ COVID-19 Risk: Enable Swift and Efficient Response to Supply Chain Disruptions.” Companies Share COVID-19 Response.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In retail environments, IoT-enabled systems manage inventory levels and provide feedback about stock conditions, further enhancing the DPP’s accuracy. Throughout the supply chain, IoT devices monitor products as they move, tracking critical factors including transportation conditions and environmental parameters.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 11, 2024

Actionable Tools and Templates: However, learners gain access to a valuable toolkit of templates, checklists, and frameworks that can be immediately applied in their workplaces such as inventory optimization tools. Watch 6 Key Metrics to Include in Your Logistics Dashboard on SCMDOJO YouTube Channel!

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Silvon Software

JANUARY 25, 2023

Salespeople have personal interest in their metrics, so it’s helpful if the forecasting software calculates the forecasting KPIs to make it easy for them to see where they stand. Forecast-accuracy metrics are often not included in sales KPIs, but if your company is serious about demand planning, then they should be.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

I also continued to work on the manuscript for the book Metrics That Matter to publish in the fall of 2014. The average client that has implemented demand sensing technologies has reduced inventory by 11%. Prove that it works and educate the team on how the “touching of demand data” actually reduces demand accuracy.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 29, 2023

Key metrics that will indicate if marshalling is needed relate to picking and shipping. This can help with inventory accuracy. With an integrated warehouse management system, metrics can help to show if marshalling is causing a bottleneck in terms of dispatch.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The research tries to establish “ who did supply chain best ” by looking at a weighted formula of Year-over-Year Growth, Return on Assets (ROA), and Inventory Turns for the Fortune 500 companies. Inventory Turns values are based on an average of quarterly reporting for the past year. Inventory Turns is only part of the story.

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Logility

JUNE 2, 2023

They help minimize inventory, streamline purchasing, optimize distribution, and enhance production efficiency while ensuring the highest level of customer service. In this article, we’ll dive into four easy steps to sharpen your forecasting skills and optimize your inventory investments and deployments. Let’s get started!

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

The platform is designed to enhance inventory management and provide accurate demand planning and forecasting, crucial for optimizing supply chain efficiency. Logility: Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Logility assists global businesses with complex supply chains in sensing and responding to fluctuating market conditions.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The topic of sustainability and being eco-friendly is discussed in K-12 education on a regular basis. 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. So how does one build one?

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Logility

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Accurate forecasts help minimize inventory, maximize production efficiency, streamline purchasing, optimize distribution, maximize customer service, ensure confidence in company financial projections. The Data Opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. I pulled up my covers to go to sleep four hours later. My question is, “Why?”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As always our goal is to educate and inform. The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory. There was a signed contract with agreed upon inventory levels.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It is vital that shippers optimize the below metric to success in their overall growth. Leverage Technology: Incorporating advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can assist in predictive analysis, inventory management, and automation of the return processes, reducing manual errors and operational costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In this period, Clorox was acquiring products with significantly higher margins and lower inventory turns. While retail companies improved inventory, they lost ground on growth and operating margin. And, while household products gained ground on margin, results for inventory turns worsened with the rise of item complexity.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. By leveraging their capabilities, businesses can reduce transportation costs, optimize inventory levels, and minimize warehousing expenses.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. While other “lists” use ROA, Inventory Turns and Revenue Growth, I find Lora’s science very objective. There has been so much discussion on the “top” supply chain lists. So, drum roll please….

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 18, 2021

He observes, “The good news is that, given our research suggests a lack of understanding rather than a complete lack of interest, the industry redoubling its efforts to educate and inform manufacturers should be able to turn this situation around. ” Inventory Management. Now, the cobot brings everything to the picker.”

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ShipBob

APRIL 13, 2021

However, there is a wide range of metrics that you should be tracking to help your online store grow. Why ecommerce performance metrics are important. Why are ecommerce performance metrics important to your online store? reorder more inventory sooner if you’re selling through it quicker than your inventory forecasts estimated).

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