HIGH FREIGHT AND INVENTORIES

High freight cost and high inventory levels are both a problem and a symptom of a problem.  Retailers.  Manufacturers.

FIRST STEPS TO CHANGING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Retailers & manufacturers, two first steps to transforming to the strategic, weaponized, Supply Chain Management is:

1. Assessment of your end-to-end Supply Chain

2. Recognizing & understanding the complexity of SCM. Your linear idea is a myth that holds back change. 

MANUFACTURERS, PERFECT ORDERS, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, AND THE NEW REALITY

Manufacturers, do you fail to recognize that Amazon made Supply Chain Management strategic and weaponized? Are you insulated from what is unfolding? Customers say it is about my order as the Perfect Order. If you cannot do it, I will get someone who can. 

Manufacturers are the weakest at the shift to doing business online with a #SupplyChain required to drive success.

AMAZON, LOGISTICS, E-COMMERCE, AND THE CONUNDRUM

Amazon has created a conundrum for e-commerce competitors. Taking control & increasing end-to-end Supply Chain speed of its logistics, bringing in-house, Reverse Outsourcing. Versus the easy use of outsider providers / 3PLs. 

IN-TRANSIT INVENTORY AND OPPORTUNITY COST

Retailers. Manufacturers. Include inventory in transit in turns or days of inventory calculations.  That can be a significant number and should not be excluded. Otherwise there is an understatement of the inventory investment—and the opportunity cost.

HELP WITH SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS

When businesses face tough supply chain / logistics challenges, LTD Management works with them to see complex realities clearly, then to chart the best course for change.

INVENTORY AND YIELD MAXIMIZATION

Yield maximization is an overlooked or misdefined impact of inventory.  Retail.  Manufacturing.

INVENTORY RICH AND OUT OF STOCK

Retailers. Manufacturers. Are you inventory rich and out of stock at the same time?  What are you doing about it?

TWO MANUFACTURING SUPPLY CHAINS

Many manufacturers struggle that they have two Supply Chains. One for production. One for supplying parts for manufactured items. Different designs. Different performances.

INVENTORY AND TARIFFS

Many stories on inventory & tariffs show lack of explanation on how to do it.  40,000 feet; not practical/operationable. Issue is end-to-end inventory velocity. How to design. How to achieve. Retail Manufacturing   CPG  FMCG

AMAZON AND LOGISTICS

Amazon. More bringing more of its logistics in house & Reverse Outsourcing to drive more Supply Chain velocity. Why are others doing similar with its logistics to speed end-to-end inventory flow?

https://theloadstar.com/amazon-container-order-another-move-toward-dominating-us-logistics/

INVENTORY OPPORTUNITY COST

What if inventory, especially excess, were valued as to opportunity cost? What would that do to turns & end-to-end Supply Chain velocity? retailers manufacturers

PERFECT ORDER--THE BEST PERFORMANCE METRIC

Retailers. Etailers. Grocers. Manufacturers. CPG FMCG Do you know your Perfect Order performance--the BEST metric. And it is Supply Chain driven. If you do not know it, why not? Is it you do not care? How can you compete for customers having power with weak or unknown results? 

 

RETAIL'S LOST FOCUS

Retail lost its focus for decades. That focus is coming back for some. It is not about stores. It should have never been. It is about customers. And how to service them in their search and acquisition for products. 

That effort is built about the new supply chain management, with its end to end velocity. Other topics are misdirection from needed transformation. And that his not a good place to be. Make Supply Chains strategic and weaponized. 

IMPORTANT FOR LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING

Retailers. Manufacturers. Logistics outsourcing. Know what you are buying beyond price. Measure it. Monitor it.  Due Diligence Metrics Governance 

3PL AND SUPPLY CHAINS--JOINING OF UNLIKE THINGS

Are 3PL & Supply Chains the joining of unlike things? What does it mean to risk? What does it mean to achieving the end to end velocity that is now required? Is that an incentive for Reverse Outsourcing?   3PSCM  SCMaaS Retailers. Manufacturers. 

SUPPLY CHAIN DECONSTRUCT

Sometimes instead of Supply Chain assessment, supply chain deconstruct is a better approach for retailers, manufacturers, & grocers. 

TRUCKING AND SUPPLY CHAIN CHAOS

Not exactly sitting on the dock of the bay. Good back story. As retailers & manufacturers complained about trucking service, they needed to fix their own houses. A bit of external & internal Supply Chain chaos.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/truckers-are-waiting-longer-at-customer-docks-study-finds-11567706830?mod=djemlogistics_h

3 KEY ELEMENTS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Management whether B2C or B2B. Amazon created end-to-end Supply Chain velocity, weaponized SCM & made it strategic to drive success. Take those 3 elements & a clean sheet of paper to design the supply chain you need. Drop the Last Mile obsession or any other reason to hold you back. Think of inventory velocity, turns, & cash generation. NOW… 

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AS A SECRET SAUCE

Retailers. Manufacturers. Turn your #SupplyChain from a pain point to a secret sauce.

https://www.ltdmgmt.com/pdfs/Speed%20is%20the%20Competition.pdf