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Talks with a Taxi Driver
Supply Chain Insights just wrapped a new survey and research report focused on the state of supply chain talent. There is a lot of information floating around regarding supply chain talent; baby-boomer...
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Voice of the Supply Chain
The first survey ever conducted by Supply Chain Insights at the beginning of this year was the Voice of the Supply Chain. This study is designed to be repeated twice a year into the future as a way to...
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Healthcare Value Chain
The majority of my recent posts over the past few weeks have focused mainly on healthcare related industries, including both hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. I promise this will be the last such...
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Optimism for Brick & Mortar Retailers
Brick & mortar retailers have undergone a stressful year/decade/millennium (so far) with increasing cost pressure from upstream manufacturers and suppliers, constant demand for lowest cost from...
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Supply Chain Excellence in Words and Numbers
Supply chain excellence is a common conversation point for supply chain professionals, but I am inclined to say there is little agreement on what the heck we actually mean by “supply chain excellence.”...
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Is Revenue per Employee Still Meaningful?
Revenue per employee is one of the most universally meaningful metrics across industry lines. While cross-industry comparison can be full of pitfalls, revenue per employee is a valuable metric...
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Consumer Electronics- False Icon?
Supply chain management professionals both within and outside of the consumer electronics industry often identify consumer electronics as the model industry for the most advanced supply chains. While...
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How Aligned Is Your Supply Chain?
Supply chains can be described with, what seems like, 1000 different adjectives. They can be flexible, stiff, agile, pull, push, outdated, highly evolved, etc. One of the most important qualities of a...
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Over a year ago, I started blogging here as I began to explore the intersection of finance and supply chain, connecting supply chain performance with corporate financial performance. The goal has...
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Supply Chain Index: Journey vs. Destination
In a previous post (Starting from Scratch), I outlined significant differences between our Supply Chain Index and existing systems for measuring and ranking supply chains. In this post, I’d like to...
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A Bird’s-Eye View
The past weeks at Supply Chain Insights have been busy as work heats up on the Index, so I apologize for my absence. At this point, we’ve finished or are close to completing one third of the industries...
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Update On the Index
The Supply Chain Index is a work-in-progress and will remain one for a long time moving forward. There are so many unexpected challenges you can begin to understand why no one has attempted this...
View ArticleSilos Everywhere
I recently attended the CSCMP Global Conference in Denver. It was a great event, big but in a good way that inspires you to think larger than your little pocket of supply chain. My pocket at the...
View ArticleInfrastructure Matters
Supply chain is not sexy. If possible, infrastructure is even less sexy. Supply chain sometimes makes the news now. Whenever it does, my mom clips the headline and article out of our local Montana...
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Understanding the Third Party Logistics Industry
Our December newsletter was published on Tuesday with two new Supply Chain Metrics That Matter reports. One of the reports takes a look at the financial performance of the third party logistics (3PL)...
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A Critical Look at Operating Margin
Less than 40% of the 18 companies profiled in our recent Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report had improved their operating margin performance in 2012 compared to their performance in 2000. Operating...
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Understanding Supply Chain Risk
The newest supply chain survey in development at Supply Chain Insights is focused on understanding the state of supply chain risk management, especially compared to what it was 5 years ago or might be...
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How Far Are We From the Ideal Supply Chain?
If it’s news, it’s generally bad news. Even when it comes to supply chain matters, the reasons we make the headlines are rarely positive. But we are doing lots of thinks right in the supply chain space...
View ArticleRefining Our Ecosystem
The Supply Chain Insights team spent last week huddled around a kitchen table in Baltimore, Maryland outlining the goals large and small for the year. The company is now 2 years old and one of the...
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Two Years Later
As we speed towards delivery of Lora Cecere’s second book, Metrics That Matter, it seemed natural to take a moment to look back at all we have accomplished over the past two years. I spent some time...
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