Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. For additional reading, check out the relevant reports: Supply Chains to Admire 2018. With a keen focus on the customer, L’Oréal senses and uses customer sentiment. Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Was this by design?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

How Do You Define Excellence? As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Humility exudes from my fingers as I type this post.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Supply Chain Dive reports that the last leg of a journey can account for up to 28 percent of a product’s total transportation costs. Grocery retailers that want to excel in this space — while protecting their bottom line — need to optimize their logistics planning. Here’s why: A constantly evolving landscape.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

To remain competitive, retailers and carriers must excel in the crucial last-mile delivery stage. Sustainability: Reduce the carbon emissions impact of last-mile operations by adopting green fleets and implementing emissions reporting. And what are the comparative costs of building versus buying?

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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. One of my favorite supply chain leaders has a stack of Palantir reports in black binders on his desk. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2024

Observations on What It Takes In the Mea Culpa post, I wrote that I used to believe that excellence in S&OP was a ratio of 60/30/10. (60% See the World Kitchen case study in the Agility Report. The demand latency (the time of purchase in the channel to the visibility of an order) was 2-12 weeks. Drives Alignment.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

In a survey by the Institute for Supply Management released March 10, 2020, almost 75% of companies reported supply disruption due to Covid-19. The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains. Covid-19—the global supply chain awakening. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A A purchase order changes many times and needs synchronization. Reporting off of transportation data is a delays the signal by weeks and months.) Exostar’s purchase by Arlington Capital Partners from Thoma Bravo was completed this month.

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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. As shown in Figure 1, the reporting relationships vary.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility. We never published the report. The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. Until then, join us for our monthly networking calls, books/reports , podcasts, and blog posts.

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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. Reports to a Profit Center Manager. What Does Good Look Like? Drives Value. S&OP is a business process. Governance.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the realm of efficient procurement management, understanding the various types of procurement reports becomes paramount. These reports serve as navigational tools, offering insights into different facets of the procurement process.

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My Office Apps

JANUARY 16, 2024

Start Your Year with Cloud-Based ERP: The Ultimate Guide to Operational Excellence Begin your year on a transformative note by embracing the power of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Real-Time Analytics and Reporting: Offers advanced analytics for real-time insights, empowering decision-makers with data-driven choices.

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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.) The total cost of ownership analyzes the total costs of the buying decision. The concept is that the best supply chain leaders outperform their peer group while driving improvement. Note the general trend of improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

Warren Buffet, Investor This week, I finished a report. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. While companies build Supply Chain Centers of Excellence, most are not clear on what good looks like. It will publish next week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

Specifically, through modeling and simulation of a digital twin you’re able to ‘virtually try before you buy’ — modelling different scenarios quickly and easily without interrupting operations, or committing significant time and capital. Do they purchase a 3D warehouse simulation and modeling tool?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Functional excellence drove regional supply chain performance in the 1990s, but a focus on functional metrics in large, global and complex supply chains over the last two decades threw the supply chain out of balance. If you want to drive change, start by defining supply chain excellence. Use the report to better define outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why? Rebuilding.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Journalist Shaylyn Esposito ( @ShaylynEsposito ) reports blue is actually a more historically-correct color. “Reach out to other departments about ways to collaborate on sustainability initiatives, and talk to your executive team to gain buy in.” Patrick’s Day, what color springs to mind? She writes, “St.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2017

When making discretionary purchases, I could look at my projection to make sure that if I made that purchase, I would have enough money in the bank, not only now, but at the end of the month when my mortgage and car loan came out. Then could I buy it? For me, this was game changing! What if I save my money this month?

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Synovos

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

ESG Report: FY24 www.rsgroup.com/media/bsocsl4m/rs-group-esg-h1-highlights-pack_-november-23.pdf RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1 and in the year ended 31 March 2023 reported revenue of £2,982 million. For more information, please visit [link]. Interested in our services?

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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. All of the results are reported in aggregate. The SAP team has built an incredible system of record to enable flows from ERP to SCP, but has failed to deliver a solution to deliver SCP planning excellence.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Think of it as the central nervous system of your operation, connecting everything from production planning and inventory control to supply chain management and financial reporting. This allows for accurate costing, streamlined accounting, and better financial reporting. Its a powerful solution for complex manufacturing operations.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A new report, “Data-Enabled Supply Chain Transparency” has revealed that 77% of respondents indicated their organization considers supply chain transparency to be critically or highly important. Redwood City, CA, 13 October, 2022. About the research. Find out more at procurementleaders.com. Global Media Contact. Markus Leutert.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) In one of the case studies, a manufacturer reported that they had 1700 employees with the term “data” in their title, but they lacked insights. And how do we measure it? (Is

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IQMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bottom Line : In 2021 and beyond, customers are voting with their dollars for the manufacturers who excel at sustainable manufacturing and make a positive contribution to the environment, dominating B2B supply chains and B2C purchasing decisions. of all North American manufacturers have a sustainability policy in place, and 8.3%

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I write for this blog, craft reports from research for our newsletters, create blogs for Linkedin, and build articles for Forbes. 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$. Stay tuned. They did it.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I would highly recommend you read the Supply Chain Insights report , This provides the depth of analysis that created these rankings. During the Panel, I was asked to comment on the 5 leading factors that make a difference: A clear definition of supply chain excellence by leadership. Functional excellence is no longer good enough.

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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. I am currently writing the Supply Chains to Admire report for 2020. With each washout, sweet colored water flooded the drains. ” When this happens, I laugh.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

I never republished the report, because not enough has changed to warrant it.) The report centers on the concept of moving from inside-out to outside-in technologies. The order latency is the time from purchase by the end consumer to the visibility of the order. Demand or order latency accounts for the process of replenishment.

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Procurement Academy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Perhaps you already have a process audit report, or are interested in discovering how it could benefit you and streamline your operations. Either way, heres some insight into how you can use a process audit report to your advantage, including a complementary process audit report template for you to get started within minutes.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. In a make to stock environment, if I have a 6 month cumulative lead time, my forecast is being used to buy inventory today for something I’m going to sell in 6 months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I see a preponderance of reports and white papers that have lots of pages but say little. 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. Back to John. On average, it takes 2.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Companies need to look to leverage machine learning and reporting as part of the process of understanding cost per delivery. Research has shown that about 90 percent of online users want to know what the return policy is before they make a purchase, making a customer-centric return policy important.

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