Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Attending the conference was Alexia Howard, Senior Research Analyst – US Foods for Sanford C. The script will be distributed to CFOs of apparel, consumer packaged goods, and food/beverage companies next week. Aligned Metrics. This is an unknown, but in my opinion, 65% of the solution is in the hands of the manufacturer.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 14, 2022

Food and beverage manufacturing and distribution companies usually operate on smaller margins than most organizations in other industries. Unfortunately, a significant chunk of food and beverage companies’ raw materials are commodities, whose prices don’t just fluctuate from month to month but can change hour-by-hour.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

I started to work at General Foods’ largest plant in Dover, DE, in the summer of 1982 at the age of 24. Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

It is a tasteless, innocuous food with little form or satisfaction. 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. I find value in looking at these metrics together. Mush in the Real World.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2023

Tomorrow, 26 April 2023, is international Stop Food Waste Day. According the Stop Food Waste Day website , “Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste. Food waste only exacerbates the challenge — and it’s everywhere. ” Why all the fuss?

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

by Jeswin Philip The Food Packaging Trends and Advances report from PMMI forecasts that the US Food and Beverage industry will experience a 2.9 % CAGR through 2022. The report also mentions that the global growth rate is almost double that of the US food industry. Food for thought: Time for a different kind of supply chain.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

A growing population, intensifying climate change, and geopolitical tensions are creating conditions that are adversely affecting global food security. However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

A growing population, intensifying climate change, and geopolitical tensions are creating conditions that are adversely affecting global food security. However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Mr. Master’s experience at Simmons Foods illustrates many of the distinct characteristics and challenges related to freight procurement. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Simmons supplies private label products to some of the world’s largest retailers and food chains.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Andrew Lynch and Joe Lynch discuss the true cost of OTIF failure. About Andrew Lynch. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance Supplier relationships are at the heart of manufacturing performance. That’s why supplier collaboration—that consistent, trusted, and responsive interaction between supplier and manufacturer—is pivotal to manufacturing success.

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2025

Keeping track of all your moving parts in manufacturing is a tall order. That’s where manufacturing inventory management software comes in. In this ultimate guide, we’ll break down everything you need to know about manufacturing inventory management software. Spreadsheets just don’t cut it anymore.

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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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QAD

MAY 23, 2024

The food and beverage industry is an ever-fluctuating landscape with a constant demand for operational efficiency. This is especially critical in industries like food and beverage, marked by short product shelf lives and significantly varying demand. Second, the addition of financial metrics into the process which now gives us IBP.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

So, for other ERP providers, a food & beverage template supports all food and beverage companies. In contrast, the Infor food & beverage solution supports micro verticals. That functionality is necessary for bakeries, dairies, and beverage manufacturers, but perhaps less important for other F&B subverticals.

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QAD

JANUARY 6, 2022

In its 2021 survey, Deloitte once again affirmed the fact that more digitally mature businesses outperform industry averages on a variety of financial metrics. Did You Miss the QAD Tomorrow: Digital Manufacturing Event? How Do Manufacturers Optimize Digital Manufacturing Efforts? And we couldn’t agree more.

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Unleashed

MARCH 14, 2021

What is the food supply chain? The food supply chain refers to the process of preparing a food product from start to finish: sourcing the raw materials and taking the food through a manufacturing process, through to the final packaging of the product, the sale to the customer and the final delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

The food and beverage company was selected for award negotiations to receive up to $170 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstration to support the implementation of clean energy projects at 10 of the company’s US plants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2013

Consider the case of food manufacturing. The only metric that we have improved through ten years of IT investments is the revenue/employee number. The company that has done this the best in this food peer group is General Mills. As a result, I believe that companies are at a Supply Chain Plateau. Performance is stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

Too few are questioning the products that should have never been manufactured. The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda. Supply-centric or Manufacturing Thinking. Consider the image in Figure 2 of a pet food manufacturer.

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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. The paradigm needs to change to buck the trend. Look at the industry decline in Figure B.

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QAD

JUNE 18, 2019

Manufacturers can miss opportunities to adapt due to their lack of speed in responding to disruptive forces, under-investing in new growth areas or applying existing business models to new markets. An example of this is the growing interest from consumers in food traceability, tracking food recalls as well as production from field to fork.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 The initiative aims to reduce food waste, provide fresher produce to customers and improve supply chain management by giving sourcing managers more information about factors impacting seasonal crops. percent decrease from 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here “near real-time” is defined as a refresh of key metrics every five minutes. Last September, I talked to a supply chain director at a manufacturing company that had implemented Rebus. A WMS project manager at a large food company said that when he initially proposed Rebus to IT he got a “No.” Overcoming the Objections of IT.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

As with the logistics category where we featured 15 most popular blog posts vs. the 10 we covered in the top manufacturing blog posts and supply chain blog posts , we write so many transportation blog posts in that category, we are going to feature the 16 most viewed transportation blog posts. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). Animals that try to take a bite out of a cactus seeking food or moisture will get bitten back by those thorns.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

According to the United Nations, one in nine people today—or 815 million globally—lack access to the food necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle. Every year, one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption—or 1.3 billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. World hunger is a global epidemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain. These results herald upcoming issues for future manufacturing reporting earnings calls.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

Unfortunately, we find most companies are moving backwards on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter™ or making progress on singular metrics versus driving performance improvement on a balanced portfolio of supply chain metrics that correlate to market capitalization. (If The winners and finalists are an elite group.

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Unleashed

JULY 23, 2023

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help manufacturers determine operational strengths and flaws. By tracking the right manufacturing KPIs in your production operations you can accurately monitor performance to ensure the consistent and timely delivery of quality products. In this manufacturing KPIs guide What are KPIs in manufacturing?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We waded through spreadsheet after spreadsheet of data for the last three weeks and contrasted the progress of the high-tech, consumer products, food, pharmaceutical and industrial industries. This is a much better view of supply chain excellence than the easier metric that I used previously of revenue/employee. Sorry, Mark.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Unlike most of the KPIs we recommend, perfect order is a composite of several elementary metrics. Damage-free delivery: This measurement is sometimes incorporated into the in full KPI, but can just also be a stand-alone metric. What about DIFOT?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Food instability looms in Africa. To make the point, let us start with a discussion on Consumer Products manufacturing. P&G lacks a tactical supply plan to manage load across factories and contract manufacturing to effectively communicate to suppliers and underperforms on ROIC. The future is uncertain. Green stagnation?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Andrew Lynch and Joe Lynch discuss the true cost of OTIF failure. About Andrew Lynch. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc.

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