Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 6, 2014

Consumer packaged goods companies are paid when the goods land in the retailer’s warehouse, not when they cross the register, and trade funds can distort the demand signal. The book, Metrics That Matter , is almost finished. People cannot get enough on metrics. This morning, I am writing from Istanbul.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 21, 2025

Retailers implementing these solutions are seeing improvements in customer engagement metrics and repeat purchase rates. Agent AI is emerging as a game-changing tool for understanding and responding to customer behavior in real-time.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency. Efficient supply chains strengthen collaborative relationships through automated communication systems and shared performance metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 13, 2015

Throughout the supply chain, the use of metrics to track and understand processes provides an invaluable resource for ensuring increased production and customer satisfaction. What Distribution Center Metrics Need Tracking? However, the most important metrics can be categorized into the following eight areas. On-Time Shipping.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

But before you start measuring everything in sight – and a few things not in sight – start with a set of thoughtful intentions and questions that will guide you to the right set of metrics and the right set of expectations. Cash-Cash Cycle Time; Return on SC Fixed Assets; Return on Working Capital ASCM SCOR Metrics, Supply Chain Council.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

We had a choice to either install newer high-capacity machines for the Jell-O lines (CM Bartelts) running at over 1500 packages/minute or slower, more flexible equipment (IM Bartelts) at a rate of 650 pouches/minute. The second step is to align metrics to the strategy. I remember one project quite well. The So What?

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 25, 2022

Today’s business goals include financial as well as operational metrics, the trade-off between cost and service is only one of a number of competing priorities. New KPI’s are also being prioritized, including sustainability metrics. Business based outcomes. Optimization and analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Recently, I was at my local grocery store for my weekly shopping trip and found myself in the packaged salads section. While this is easy for packaged/processed items with Best by Dates, it is not as easy for bulk, loose, or field packaged products. Am I alone in this habit or thinking? or squeezing an Avocado.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Owens Illinois provides glass products and Sonoco Products provides flexible packaging. ” As a supplier three to four levels back in the supply chain, life as a packaging provider is tough. It cannot be about singular metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The script will be distributed to CFOs of apparel, consumer packaged goods, and food/beverage companies next week. Aligned Metrics. To ensure the management of the complex system, the metrics of operating margin, inventory turns, ROIC, customer service, revenue, and forecast accuracy need to be managed together as a non-linear system.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2019

Realizing in January that 50,000 one-pound packages were all dimensionally billed as though they were 15 pound packages during peak season cannot get you your money back. The reality is that most carriers do not invoice as soon as a package has shipped. Use the Correct Metrics. Therefore, stay away from “Total” metrics.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

These include: Challenges getting ESG metrics from suppliers, partners, and other third parties. Time-consuming manual processes to report on ESG metrics. Difficulty tracking their ESG progress due to a lack of data. Complexities integrating data from across global supply chains. Start with your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and chemical companies are close behind, but they are having difficulty “taking the hill.” Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

P&G uses life cycle assessment for sustainable packaging design. With its commitment to have all 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030, Amazon will save millions of metric tons of carbon per year. Amazon’s electric delivery vehicles from Rivian rolls out. Uber Eats ups the ante in online grocery.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

This means developing supplier evaluation frameworks that include carbon metrics, working together on joint emission reduction projects, and incentivising suppliers to meet or beat carbon targets. You can also consider reusable packaging for B2B shipments and working with suppliers to reduce unnecessary packaging layers.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2023

To monitor supply chain performance, stakeholders of successful companies typically define supply chain metrics that are relevant to the given business and track these KPIs regularly. By setting benchmarks for metrics, analysts can recognize unsettling trends and take preventive measures on time.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s where Procurement Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come into play. Procurement metrics and KPIs allow organisations to measure results and guide best practice performance. In this post, we’ll unpack ten top procurement metrics and why they matter. Undamaged shipment rate. On-time delivery: all suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The latter refers to a single variable standard (SVS), by which one metric, such as cases per hour, is expected to tell all. What’s more, because an SVS approach only accounts for one metric at a time, a host of other equally if not more important metrics are bypassed, leaving you largely in the dark. Ad infinitum. Times of day.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2024

The vehicle deployments are expected to lower emissions by 7,052 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, equivalent to 1,533 passenger cars removed from the road. To my surprise and a quick Google search, Frito Lays announced in 2022 that it will deploy over 700 electric delivery vehicles in the U.S. by the end of 2023.

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Synovos

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In one case, a long-time packaging manufacturer changed its reporting structure, putting in place a new manager responsible for the MRO supply chain. Inventory Reduction This metric is defined as a reduction in the total value of inventory listed in a single storage location. There are 14 other sites that receive procurement support.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. Tensions flare in the Middle East without warning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

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. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 26, 2021

A collaborative dedicated provider can deliver on critical service metrics and adjust to demand changes, while helping eliminate unfavorable market exposure.” Cloud-based technology and a TMS can track the packages and prevent and alert to issues. Reduced risk for damage to the freight. Fewer overlooked errors in invoicing.?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

It is the company’s largest plastic packaging reduction effort in North America to date and will remove almost 15 billion plastic air pillows from use annually. The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 This certainly sounds like a lofty goal. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. Some interesting insights: There were 0 companies from Retail, Paper & Packaging, Pharmaceutical, or Medical Devices. There has been so much discussion on the “top” supply chain lists.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2023

But I believe that more efficient packaging is the area with the greatest potential to improve sustainability metrics within the warehouse. Walmart is using machines from packaging-technology company Packsize International Inc. Walmart is using machines from packaging-technology company Packsize International Inc.

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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). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 4, 2013

Abby and I are writing an e-book on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter. Over the last decade, the only metric that we have improved in the supply chain is revenue/employee, a measurement of productivity. Companies that are not looking holistically at metrics are stuck. It will publish in the early summer. Measurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

I am hearing it again in my interviews for the book Metrics That Matter. As shown in the data below, the most resilient industries are medical device and consumer packaged goods. More encompassing of metrics beyond the growth, inventory and Return on Assets (ROA) metrics used in the Gartner Top 25. Encompassing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To reduce lead times, Ipsen decoupled manufacturing from packaging. These finished goods were composed of the drug and the specific regulatory information different nations required on the packages and in the inserts. But the finished goods, inclusive of nation specific packaging, had a lead time of six months.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2023

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. One area of concern for the long-term health of the world is the use of packaging in both the manufacturing and shipping of products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The winners drove long-term value (measured by market capitalization) while outperforming on the portfolio of metrics shown in Figure 1 and driving improvement faster than their peer groups. Celebrating Success. Target Setting.

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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. The Effective Frontier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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