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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

When measuring order fill rates, many manufacturer and distributors often fudge the numbers to make them look better than they really are. Make it your New Year’s resolution to start using this more granular metric. Using these three metrics, I’m confident you can vastly improve your measurement of supply chain performance in 2015.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Pure Storage’s manufacturing is done at three contract manufacturing sites, two in Texas and one in the Czech Republic.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

The indexes will feature in future Empire State Manufacturing and Business Leaders surveys, the bank said. The solar panels will reduce the building’s carbon footprint by approximately 4,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. I highly recommend watching the movie when you get a chance. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

To minimize costs, supply chain teams of manufacturing leaders have designed the value network to absorb this volatility. The tendency is to build a supply chain for the lowest manufacturing cost-per-case which they believe is the lowest ROA. By focusing so strongly on manufacturing, they have thrown the supply chain out of balance.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply.

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Three Lies and a Truth

Supply Chain Shaman

We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics. West Texas crude is now selling for 3X the price in the 1990s.

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Halal Cluster Network: Connecting regional halal clusters

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In their time lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts. Manufacturers need to extend visibility and collaboration beyond their own walls to avoid any disruptions. Most manufacturers have ranked increased transparency and collaboration as one the key aspects impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.