Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There will be little relief in 2022 unless the factors driving the increased import volumes—a strong economy and the fundamental shift in consumer behavior to purchase more goods and less services—change. Near or re-shoring sourcing strategies will be evaluated to “shorten” supply chains and gain greater control of supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here I share some insights from my research. Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality. I am currently doing research on inventory management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

Over the course of the last week, I have been working on healthcare research. As I worked with healthcare leaders, and shared the research available on slideshare , I better understood the individuals’ pain. The focus has been on sourcing and managed costs. The problem is us. It is now shifting again.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

” My response, “Sorry Ryan, the research does not support that increased digitalization brought unprecedented levels of connectivity. similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel. I am researcher. ” Does the Dog Hunt?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning.

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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 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. However, in my research, I find four factors make the difference (correlations at an 80% confidence level): Supply Chain Leadership. Strength in S&OP.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Buying supplies, equipment, low preference items and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive and while it’s not an area where you want to skimp, there are certainly ways to reduce these expenses without impacting quality of care. The Path to Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

The research that I have conducted has enabled me to look at this holistically. When I left AMR Research I invested over 400K in building a database of supply chain financial ratios to correlate supply chain results. After three years of research, I have just refined the methodology to start to pull the trends. I am an old gal.

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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

JUNE 23, 2020

I share insights, based on research, for the supply chain leader. 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. Stay tuned.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Over the decade, based on the research, the gap between operations and commercial teams grew. 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. Maturity Model.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

In these times of global turmoil, there are five (5) important megatrends shaping supply chain innovations in the coming years, namely in e-fulfillment, sourcing, food and agriculture, labour intensive operations, and halal supply chain management. From global to local and regional sourcing. Marco Tieman – CEO, LBB International.

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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. As a researcher, due to merger and acquisition activity, it is getting harder and harder to compare companies.

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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?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I am a researcher. The translation of ripple effects of short supply, pricing, quality issues, and freight shifts affects how to source, make, and deliver processes should align. I find the industry awash with opinions but short on research-backed answers. Or mine supplier shifts to build alternate buying plans.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. For a couple of hours I looked around the room and saw glazed eyes. This is important.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. In my research, I do not see that any retailer has really redefined value chains through collaboration. …there is not substitute for an accurate PI signal in supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. As a result, after three months of research, writing the sequel on S&OP technologies is a challenge. Dependency on Excel. Driving supply chain excellence is a balancing act. The question central to the research?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many of these outsourced products have demand latency of weeks and months (shelf purchase through the replenishment cycle for a manufacturer to receive an order). In our research, we find that 95% of companies are not clear on what makes a good inventory plan. Inventory management is critical to the success of ESG initiatives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Lately, as I reflected on my conversations with John (fictitious name) when I was at AMR Research, I yearn to go back in time. AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. John and I held differing beliefs. I disagreed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. Figure 1: U.S. Somewhat nailed it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It is one of the reasons that I went from working at AMR Research to being a partner at the Altimeter Group. 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).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Models Matter. Traditional Models.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In other words, halal requires an organisation of the supply chain instead of just the factory: from source all the way up to point of consumer purchase. The brand owner has its plant halal certified and is buying its ingredients from suppliers with the right halal certificates. distributor, retailer) and suppliers (e.g.:

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. If you, like most, are running your supply chain based on ERP and Excel spreadsheet data, you are not prepared. – Technology Evolution Outpaced Adoption. No one knows. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. This purchase increases E2open’s capabilities for visibility into the processes of the outsourced semiconductor network of foundries. 3) Risky Business? We would love to hear from you.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. Consider the Supply Chain Insights report, Research in Review (Nov 2014), that states: “Many companies have five to 30 Enterprise Resource Planning systems and two to three supply chain planning systems.

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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. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Source E2open Shipping Index). As an analyst, I conduct primary research. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982. Less Collaborative. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources. The best way to start the design of an agile supply chain is to look at the sources of variability and market volatility that your supply chain encountered in the prior year. Q: You mention that Executive Buy-in is the biggest stumbling block.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

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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. Thorough analysis allows procurement professionals to surface, visualize, and present purchasing patterns, which are then evaluated by the stakeholders. From whom are we buying?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Source: Sea-Intelligence Source: Sea-Intelligence The number of blank sailings are at the lowest we have seen since the pandemic started. Supply chain managers require visibility to track the necessary components from a purchase order for production or to fulfill a customer order.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to research from McKinsey & Company, the supply chain dimension has the lowest level of digitization (43%) compared to other dimensions, including products and services, marketing and distribution channels, business processes, and new entrants at the ecosystem level. of manufacturing companies in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) We source this data from Y charts. Mistake #3. My challenge?

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