Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. While the name of SAP’s Supply Chain Planning suite has changed to SCM7 (the old name was SAP APO), the gaps are glaring. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. While the name of SAP’s Supply Chain Planning suite has changed to SCM7 (the old name was SAP APO), the gaps are glaring. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. And, recently, Procter & Gamble is more focused on improving inventory turns. I shake my head.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. Question the Basics. This is not progress.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here “near real-time” is defined as a refresh of key metrics every five minutes. They use SAP as their ERP. Generating the analytics in SAP also would not work. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. The real-time reporting of work was weaker than expected.”.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The impact of complexity on inventory is not quick. To help, today I want to share some of the insights from our recent Inventory Optimization study. Inventory management is a hot issue. Companies invest in project after project, yet inventory levels remain the same. The Business Problem. The analogy is weight loss.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers. Infor is able to use its visibility application to dynamically update ETAs and look at the impact on inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle. It is tough for me to see that nine out of ten companies are stuck, and not making progress, at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. The book is a story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

We find that three factors mattered: organizational alignment, descriptive analytics, and inventory management. Companies driven by functional metrics struggled: they could not adapt quickly to the higher transportation costs.). There was a negative correlation with companies adhering to tight SAP standardization.) Conclusion.

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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

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The high cost of inflationary inventories and the need to work down post pandemic working capital is a driver for companies to better use network data. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

The goal was to take data directly out of disparate source data systems including different versions of SAP and different types of supply chain planning, and then quickly assemble a common data model. The algorithms generate recommendations on optimal ways to rebalance inventory based on cost and service level impacts.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Benji Green, director of global sales, operations and inventory planning, Avaya. Session Title: “Accelerating Vision to Value: Integrating Supply Chain Operations” Avaya has been on a 4 year transformation to create a Best In Class supply chain with industry leading On Time Ship, Inventory Turns, and Expense to Revenue ratio.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear. The SAP and Oracle analyst relations groups are big machines. It is uncomfortable.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, the only metrics that count are how a change impacts the company’s goals. Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supply chain visibility. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I’ll tell them what they are getting.”This

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. The supply chain is a complex system and these metrics are tightly linked in non-linear relationships. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier. Figure 3: Defining Planning Architectures.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Valogix

MAY 1, 2023

Most small businesses use an ERP system from companies like SAP, NetSuite and Microsoft. But they fall short of providing inventory optimization and rationalization. Achieving a well-balanced, efficient inventory is no small task as supply chain complexity is ever increasing. How do you get there?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. The performance factors evaluated in the analysis are: Growth. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

With new sales leadership, with the addition of Dale Erker and Robert McFarland (prior experiences selling software at IBM, JDA, Manugistics and SAP), I expect LLamasoft to become much more aggressive in selling network design capabilities to the global multinational. The Acquisition Is a Mixed Bag for the Inventory Management Market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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RFgen

JUNE 30, 2023

Gone are the days of paper inventory tracking and manual data entry. The businesses of tomorrow need technology solutions that give real-time information in order to make key business decisions when it comes to inventory. It’s also critical to your inventory management strategy. Case Study: NFPC Enhances ERP to Gain 99.9%

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). Oxford Economics & Sap. billion (based on 2018 sales).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. They include growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). Inventory Turns. Improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. Forecasting hierarchies need to roll up to define business requirements, and inventory needs to be reported by form and function. Form and Function of Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. Inventory piles up and revenues gaps are closed by pushing product into the market. In a SAP shop, I would stabilize the investments in SAP APO or SAP SCM 7. This is disruptive innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. This would include rules like inventory matching, customer policy, Available-To-Promise (ATP) or allocation. This is not the case of SAP IBP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. Forecasting hierarchies need to roll up to define business requirements, and inventory needs to be reported by form and function. Form and Function of Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”

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