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Weekly Updates 04.24.2026

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:59:05 GMT

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04.24.26

1. Global | Ocean Freight/Inland Drayage RFP : In a dynamic geo-political environment, the team executed a rigorous 5-round sourcing event covering a $317.5M FY26 baseline. Use of Long-Term-Agreement (LTA) and negotiated Conditional Offer, port optimization tactics, and accessorial reductions delivered $32M in contract value and operations savings , fully offsetting ~$29M in projected inbound fuel headwinds.

2. Future of Supply Planning Workshop in Vietnam - Successful workshop wrapped up with Global Supply Planning leaders with great debate and discussion throughout the week! Key outcomes achieved:

Insights from eight factory partners on today’s processes, challenges, and future possibilities, alongside visit to a factory and a consolidator to see interconnectivity of manufacturing and transportation
Focused on 5 key strategic questions and aligned on declarative points of view for each.
Identified numerous near term opportunities to implement in current landscape, providing speed to value and learning opportunity for future.
Discussed an initial deployment approach that will ensure early value while limited business risk.
Next steps: Package and socialize outcomes of the workshop with leaders and add additional perspective from the Geo planning leaders through another workshop May 11-13th.

3. Canada Digital : It's a GO!!!!! Unanimous decision reached on program “go” to activate digital capabilities on revised go live date Thursday, April 30th. Digital training for athletes 95% complete, with remaining sessions scheduled for 4/26-4/27. Decision aligned to activate U90 B2B return functionality Thursday, April 30th (in tandem with B2C functionality). 98% of digital inventory slotted and available. Socialized and activated aligned detailed supply chain command center strategy & hyper-care support model, providing inputs into broader program communications.

4. Breaking 50 - Overall Program Consolidator Bypass (CY) Expansion- New Booking Process Phase 1 Ho Chi Minh Footwear: Based on March-April Data, Global CY reached 34% actuals , and we broke 50% CY in North America Geo - reflecting outstanding execution and strong factory partner adoption. Overall CY across all Divisions and Geos is at 23% including destination countries not yet running optimization engines.

5. Functional Development – Take-Off Hosted Pascal Bornet , who focused on individual readiness for AI and highlighted creativity, critical thinking and social/relational skills as our uniquely human areas for continued investment. Rajeev Aikkara kicked off and Yuki Endo led the session. Tested a hybrid and evening (4-6pm) format session for global reach. Feedback was favorable (4.2-4.5/5) that the session was informative, practical and increased confidence.

Weeky Updates 05.01.2026

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:57:26 GMT

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05.01.26

1. Planning Capabilities: Assortment Planning

Accelerated Plan revised activation roadmap to achieve an activation within Q2. Review Monday May 4th with all Program partner and target to finalize early next week. Once plan is finalized, will target broad communications to clarify direction and set expectations.
Functional Testing Core Team focused on training and testing NEW NMP rolling plan while giving space to SCPT partners, SME engagement on this starts next week. AI being leveraged to align testing scripts.
Change Management Stakeholder validation with COE teammates world wide kicked off this week, target completion date of May 15th.

2. Trade & Customs

Reciprocal tariff refunds expected to begin reaching importers around May 11; refunds ≥$10K accrue 6% interest.
VAT mitigation with APLL (Vietnam) moving forward. FY27 savings projected >$500K for VN alone, with analysis expanding to other top origins.
EMEA dutiable design & development (DDD) requests under review for FY22–FY25 UK memorandums; alignment in progress with Legal and external advisors before re‑issuance.
Materials buy/sell (rubber) discovery work progressing to identify compliant alternatives for safety stock strategies.

3. Canada Digital is LIVE : Nike.CA is officially live!!!!! This monumental go live marks the official transition of digital fulfillment and returns processing from EMEA to NA.

4. Ops AI Council;

Met with Lab Leaders around ; Still managing through tool access decisions yielding risk of slow down on lab experimentation

5. EMEA MA 3.0 Stabilization: Initiatives are progressing across all eight key focus areas. The initial measures introduced to enhance Direct Ship Flexibility performance have delivered positive results. Further validations are scheduled for next week, contingent upon the completion of month-end close activities. Additionally, a dedicated team is addressing outstanding issues related to missing customer ASN transmissions. Overall, system performance remained stable throughout the week, with only minimal user incidents reported.

Weeky Updates 05.08.2026

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:55:27 GMT

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05.08.26

1. Nike x Zellerfeld: AIRMAX 1000.2 sold out in 10 minutes on !!!!! From SCPO intake to SNKRS launch in 78 business business days!!!! That speed was enabled through rapid prioritization and capacity tradeoffs, a standardized and sustainable operating model, and cross‑functional delivery as one Nike operating system across SCPO, Technology, NA & Footwear Supply Chain, Brand Marketing, Product Creation, Air MI, and Design. This establishes a repeatable design‑to‑deliver process that enables more rapid innovation, and reliable launches going forward.

2. Analytics:

EMEA Team closed a major visibility gap on DRS orders that was causing mismatches between Nike views, complicating goal setting & month-end close. Short-term dashboard now captures all missing scheduled units — MSC teams can safely run end-of-year close. Potential impact if unresolved: $100M+ in compliance risk.
NA Team delivered The Key City POS Insights app to the NA Planning team, enabling in-season visibility to demand signals and faster adjustments to inventory plans and flow to better align supply with localized demand.

3. Breaking 50 - Overall Program CY Expansion (Phase 1, HCM – April): Strong performance - Global CY reached 30% with standout performance in footwear: NA at 40% and Greater China breaking 50% across all product engines (52%).

This makes Greater China the first Geo to Break 50!!!

4. FY27 Global Ops AOP: We are in the final stretch of FY27 preparation, and will communicate priorities in the next couple of weeks. Across Business and Technology, we have aligned to break FY27 into H1 and H2 and communicate the following:

We will make Enterprise commitments for FY27 H1 as we lead into Q1 PI Planning (end of May). We are expecting our Portfolio to be dynamic, and therefore, we will re-prioritize FY27 H2 mid-year using the latest/greatest insights and priorities for the business. This will require our teams be flexible and patient regarding initiatives that are not planned in H1. If capacity becomes available, we will bring in additional work using the prioritization processes we have in place.

5. Released Creating Value Through Sport (CVTS) course and Running the Enterprise podcast as part of a new "Enterprise Context" layer of LIFT. PHK-based teammates who complete the CVTS course by 5/20 will have the chance to experience CVTS Home Court

This upgrade includes performance improvement, bug fixes, and refreshed navigation across our planning ecosystem. It also creates the opportunity for Nike to use o9 Agentic capabilities.
QRG Training Material Updated to reflect incremental information shared last week
UAT Entry Requirements Aligned with Upgrade Testing in flight across o9 tenants as of January 29th
UAT Exit Targeted for February 12th across all o9 tenants (Materials Planning out of scope)
Work in Progress: MFP o9 Playbook comprehensive refresh to align to new UI

3. EMEA | North/UK/IE Small Parcel RFP : Completed RFQ Round 2, modeling several award scenarios. At the end of two rounds, a realistic award scenario would deliver $7.4M in cost reduction (6.76%). Working team additionally aligned on adding a 5th bidding round as the strategy focus shifts to blended bids versus dynamic rates. Next: RFQ round 3 will run Feb 3-13, with SteerCo on Feb 26.

4. International Transportation:

Breaking 50 - Overall Status turns due to Factory acceptance rates —
Program execution is on track; however, factory acceptance of CY recommendations remains a risk. The team is partnering with OCM to deep dive root causes of CY rejections and will engage factories to better support resolution and improve acceptance. One key way to address rejections driven by tight schedules is the process change to move the booking cut-off from 7 to 14 days, which has been approved. Tech build is underway (estimated ~6 weeks), alongside factory communications planning to drive awareness and adoption.
Key Wins- IB Optimizer UI (HCM) live (1/26). Operating in shadow mode for initial data validation. First CY recommendations scheduled for factory partner distribution next week.
EMEA improvement delivered - iTMS DRS Decon logic enhancements deployed, driving early CY uplift (+1.41%).
GC Pilot – Semarang: CY at 82% (88% cumulative). HCM: CY at 56% (63% cumulative), with rejections largely driven by small leftover volumes.
Insights & Dashboard - Post-SEC go-live dashboard issue identified (DC vs. DRS filter logic). Fix identified and Breaking 50 KPIs refreshed. Remediation ongoing for additional data attributes.
NA iTMS HCM Load Planning is Live!
HCM – Ho Chi Minh is officially live for business! Great news, We will exit hypercare on Feb 9th with no expected hiccups. We are now at 39% load planning for NA.

5. FY27 AOP : completed Logistic & MSC Community workshops. Met workshop objectives including 1) onboarding new MSC teammates (Chia, Lykins, Dixit), 2) landed FY27 MSC AOP priorities (1-n), and 3) deep dive(s) into Marketplace Strategy, Geo GIA op model, AI Council and Training, Analytics priorities, etc. Next Step: 1) scope FY27 AOP Priorities leading to feasibility and technology commitments, 2) x-Community FY27 AOP deep dive with the Ops LT on 2/19. @channel

SCPO Huddle Recap 3.31.26

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:25:33 GMT

Hey Team -

Thank you for joining our Supply Chain Planning & Operations (SCPO) Quarterly Huddle. The pace is real, the work is complex, and the energy you show up with everyday matters. As shared at the Q2 Huddle, our 2026 theme is Pre-Pace . It’s not just about moving fast - it’s about moving with intention. Elevating how we show up. Sharpening how we operate. And accelerating the impact we deliver across Nike.

Below are key highlights from our time together.

Organizational Perspective
I focused on the importance of Perspective . Transitions like this can feel different depending on where you sit and the experiences you bring. As we keep pushing the race forward, let’s lead with empathy - extending grace to one another while holding the intensity and focus it takes to win together. Different viewpoints don’t slow us down; they make us stronger.

Consumer Perspective
Anna Schoborg shared the airbag innovations supporting World Cup cleats - a powerful example of how bold thinking can change the game.

Team Perspective
I’m encouraged by the progress Teams are making agai nst our shared SCPO goals . A big thank you to those who shared updates on Unlocking the Nike Enterprise Business Plan and Return to Growth through onboarding New Marketplace Partners .

Neal also shared important context on geopolitical tensions and the resulting risks to the global supply chain - a clear reminder that our work happens in a complex world, but we have the team to navigate through it.

Take a moment to check out:

A Preview to our Athlete Guest for our June Huddle
The Huddle Recording & Presentation
The Feedback Survey - we want to hear from you
The Nike After Dark Tour Playlist shared during the meeting

As we move forward, let’s stay aligned, keep our pace, continue raising the bar, and taking care of each other.

The Drop — Week of February 2, 2026

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:17:54 GMT

2026 is already moving at race pace, and The Drop is right alongside it. Here are five fast reads tying sport, Nike news, and Supply Chain wins.

THE STARTING FIVE

Sport : Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest man in tennis to complete a career Grand Slam and win seven Slams by defeating Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open .

Nike Now : There’s so much happening with the brand that The Drop had to prioritize the here and now! Nike is reintroducing All Conditions Gear , a dedicated outdoor-performance brand for all athletes who seek the challenge, adventure and connection of thriving in the wild.

Supply Chain Win Now : While this was a highlight from last week, The Drop thinks it’s important enough to share once again: We are LIVE with iTMS NA Ho Chi Minh Load Planning! This is our largest lane in the Nike network and puts the team well on pace for scaling plans. SCPT has been key in helping accelerate, the current plan is to be 100% volume scaled (all Nike volume being planned in the system) by end of FY27. Massive accomplishment and fantastic partnership between Supply Chain Flow and Technology.

SCPO At-Large, part 1 : Straight from our man in Korea (@ Jiwon Choi) Nike athlete Hee-Chan Hwang (famous football athlete) shared Dubai Chocolate Cookies with the Korea office. Dubai Chocolate is the Snack of the latest trend in Korea, and the sport star shipped the snack to Nike Korea office, enough to go around the whole office. The snack was on every employee's SNS for the day.

SCPO At-Large, part 2 : Sharing from EMEA, @Yoël Casal casal demonstrates both pride, team, and making sport a daily habit: Day‑to‑day, there’s this sense of pride that comes with working at the Swoosh, not just because of the work, but also because of what connects all of us at the core, sports. A little while ago we started doing monthly city runs to bring that spirit outside the office and into the streets of Antwerp. Epic historic corners, hip neighborhoods… we’ve been Swooshing up this amazing city together! Today was our third run and we’re all craving spring and summer 4 more daylight, more energy and hopefully even more Swooshes joining us so we can keep spreading the love. P.S. Visiting the ELC on a Friday? Swing by and join the run!

Heritage Spotlight : With the recent launch of the NikeSKIMS Rift, The Drop is laying down some knowledge about the origins of that memorable split-toe running silhouette that debuted in 1995 .

What’s Next? Moving forward, you’ll find The Drop updates posted here (for those of your traditionalists) and also here - https://supplychain.nike.com/news (for those seeking additional layers of info).

PLAYLIST PICK
Drop helped kick off our PHK * SCPO IGNITION * session today with a 1970s throwback! Rock me Gently , by Andy Kim.

Keep us fresh! The Drop aspires to maintain a Growth Mindset, so share a favorite track of yours that fuels your focus and we’ll consider it for IGNITION—and sharing with the full SCPO team on an upcoming Drop message.

ONE ASK
Change is real, and it hits different for everyone. Take a breath, move your body, and ask for help when you need it. If you need a hand, explore Nike Well‑Being , EAP, or connect with your manager or people partner.

From pitch to podium, from factory floor to finish line, OUR team moves the world for athletes.*

Weeky Updates 02.02.2026

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:29:47 GMT

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02.02.2026

1. SEC Hypercare : System performance has continued to be a primary focus this week. The root cause of the issue is being addressed, with remediation underway and tech teams closely monitoring on a 24/7 basis. Collaboration between program, business, and technical teams continues to ensure that business key priorities and necessary awareness are maintained. The activation of new business capabilities is ongoing, with important milestones approaching for Financial close and Planning global buy activities. SEC will continue regular Hypercare support through end of February and sustain support through quarter close for Finance.

Key Wins of the Week

Order book reporting available for goal-setting – estimated at 97% accuracy.
Order Entry (OE) FA26 deadline - EMEA is fully complete for all MPUs.
Teams working together to solve critical incidents to enable month-end close
Core planning tools and capabilities are now activated, allowing teams to run standard processes and analyze with aligned data. Stable product movement continues across all logistics streams, with functional incidents resolved quickly to maintain flow

2. o9 Platform Upgrade : Across MFP, E2E IF, DO, MEIO, AP, DCD & Location Planning

This upgrade includes performance improvement, bug fixes, and refreshed navigation across our planning ecosystem. It also creates the opportunity for Nike to use o9 Agentic capabilities.
QRG Training Material Updated to reflect incremental information shared last week
UAT Entry Requirements Aligned with Upgrade Testing in flight across o9 tenants as of January 29th
UAT Exit Targeted for February 12th across all o9 tenants (Materials Planning out of scope)
Work in Progress: MFP o9 Playbook comprehensive refresh to align to new UI

4. International Transportation:

Breaking 50 - Overall Status turns due to Factory acceptance rates —
Program execution is on track; however, factory acceptance of CY recommendations remains a risk. The team is partnering with OCM to deep dive root causes of CY rejections and will engage factories to better support resolution and improve acceptance. One key way to address rejections driven by tight schedules is the process change to move the booking cut-off from 7 to 14 days, which has been approved. Tech build is underway (estimated ~6 weeks), alongside factory communications planning to drive awareness and adoption.
Key Wins- IB Optimizer UI (HCM) live (1/26). Operating in shadow mode for initial data validation. First CY recommendations scheduled for factory partner distribution next week.
EMEA improvement delivered - iTMS DRS Decon logic enhancements deployed, driving early CY uplift (+1.41%).
GC Pilot – Semarang: CY at 82% (88% cumulative). HCM: CY at 56% (63% cumulative), with rejections largely driven by small leftover volumes.
Insights & Dashboard - Post-SEC go-live dashboard issue identified (DC vs. DRS filter logic). Fix identified and Breaking 50 KPIs refreshed. Remediation ongoing for additional data attributes.
NA iTMS HCM Load Planning is Live!
HCM – Ho Chi Minh is officially live for business! Great news, We will exit hypercare on Feb 9th with no expected hiccups. We are now at 39% load planning for NA.

Weeky Updates 01.26.2026

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:23:55 GMT

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01.26.2026

1. SEC Hypercare

Active work tracks to improve performance, support upcoming milestones and ensure system stability. The team is experiencing some system performance issues affecting specific business activities and reporting (including BOP, Buy, and DC operations). Users are experiencing intermittent system slowness, as well. Key performance adjustments were made on January 23rd, for which improved outcomes are expected over the weekend. Due to system performance issues, SEC will continue Command Center support through the weekend, with regular hypercare support proceeding through end of February and sustained support through quarter close for Finance.

Key Wins of the Week:

First Global Full Lead Time (FLT) Buy
Scope of Check Inventory Availability activation
Strong performance of Order Appointment Scheduling
Value added services code issues solved
EMEA Reporting: ~ 50% of Reports validated by business; remaining report validation on track to start next week

2. iTMS NA Ho Chi Minh Load Planning - We are a Go for Jan 26th Go Live!! This is our largest lane in the Nike network, and puts the team well on pace for scaling plans. SCPT has been key in helping accelerate, the current plan is to be 100% volume scaled (all Nike volume being planned in the system) by end of FY27. Massive accomplishment and fantastic partnership between Supply Chain Flow and Technology.

3. Breaking 50 - Overall Status

Inbound Optimizer UI (User Interface) Deployment: Jakarta Hypercare successfully exited on January 16th. Ho Chi Minh Activation: UAT completed with zero functional defects. The only open Severity 1 issue relates to a data-pipeline fix, which is on track to be deployed by tomorrow (January 23rd). User access migration will complete on Monday, keeping us on schedule for Go-Live on January 26th.
EMEA Improvements: Decon analysis has been completed and the fix is now live in production. This is expected to drive an additional +1.41% improvement in EMEA CY%, (5-7% CY increase in DRS flow).
Factory Partner Support: The team is aligning with Leadership to move to a 14-day booking cut-off (from the current 7 days prior to GAC week) to provide early visibility on CY recommendations to the factories. Once confirmed, this can be implemented within 6 weeks, with the vendor compliance program review launching in parallel (aligned with iTMS and Breaking 50 team).
Project moved to yellow due to ongoing factory rejection issues (hopefully some remedied with 14 day booking cut-off changes) but, also severely early DRS Direct supply which is preventing moving to a push model until remedied. Work kicking off with SCPT team to address.

4. Assortment Planning o9

Technical design workshop held to assess solution requirements
Taking action to address key open design topics not finalized in KDD workshops with target to finalize needed decisions/requirements by February 13th
Targeting refined activation roadmap assumptions by January 30th
Process alignment workshops planned for February with objective to calibrate E2E Planning process across personas and highlight key areas including Margin and Op Plan / Assortment Plan Recon
February Week 1 - GC
February Week 2 - EMEA
February Week 4 - NA & APLA

5. The Athlete* Promise Dashboard Go‑Live

Planned for January 29th. Communications, documentation standards, support model, intake process, and backlog/activation roadmap will all be rolled out. The team will support NA scorecard production move by end of week.

Weekly Updates 01.16.2026

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:49:03 GMT

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01.16.2026

1. US Tariff Update:

The US and Taiwan finalized a trade deal capping reciprocal tariffs at 15% and eliminating tariffs in key sectors (pharma, aircraft, natural resources). Taiwanese chip/tech firms will invest $250B in US capacity.
President Trump threatened 25% tariffs on Iran’s major trading partners (China, India, Turkey, UAE) in response to Iran’s protest crackdown.
The Supreme Court did not issue an IEEPA tariff ruling; a decision could come as early as next week.
Next US–Vietnam negotiation round: Jan 26–30.

2. Origin Operations Team expansion :

Vietnam Phase 2 onboarding plan complete; new leadership team onboarding underway. Offers accepted for 2×G35 (OCM) and 1×G30 (Ocean Mgmt), with start date of 3/2; Phase 1 hiring accelerating and progressing well. Meeting with Nike Indonesia leadership on 1/19 to update on team setup and Phase 2 hiring for Jakarta based roles.

3. The Performance Management Improvement Team is on track to launch:

The Athlete Promise Dashboard Jan 29. We have aligned the L1 Planning metrics with the EBP team and are developing the L1 Quality metrics.
GEO Inventory Availability (GIA) Phase 4 data and logic updates. Super User Training materials are nearly complete and expected launch of first four 2-Hour training session Jan 20th with select GIA Ambassadors as identified by Operations. New GenAI capabilities are being demoed to great fanfare.

4. SKIMS Operations Deployment:

Mesh Rift FW went live online with preheat this week. First SKIMS FW will launch on 1/26 -2/2 for Pop Ups and 2/5 Globally. EDI onboarding kick off in EMEA this week.
Skims continues to be a heavy manual lift for the teams to orchestrate. Working on integration and better ways of working plans with Skims GM.

5. AP o9 Workshop Update:

Completed Week 2 of the Assortment Planning Key Design Decision Workshop.
Aligned 63 of 65 Targeted Design Decisions and started requirements documentation. 2 open KDDs will have fast follow actions and include Allocated Product Planning and Responsive Planning
2 key blockers to achieve current Roadmap have been escalated to Sponsors for immediate help needed to address:
Analytics Roadmap/Resourcing (Operations Analytics/SCPT)
Program SME Resourcing
Next Steps -
Technical Design Review & Deliver Planning Workshop
Address Fast Follow Decisions
Solution Design Approval by Jan 30th in support of Build/Config needed to begin Feb

Weekly Updates 01.09.2026

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:48:28 GMT

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01.09.2025

1. SEC MA3.0 is LIVE in EMEA! Despite an unusually heavy snowstorm in the Netherlands, teams worked around the globe and around the clock to execute cutover and ramp up the business! Business activities have also resumed for North America and GC with the ERP upgrade. We are officially in Hypercare for EMEA, NA and GC, which means that 24/7 intensive support processes are in place through mid-January. After mid-January, Hypercare support will proceed through end of February, with sustained support through quarter close for Finance. The vast majority of our operations are running business as usual. Current issue and incident volumes remain within the expected range based on previous deployments (GC and NA). Thank you to all the teams involved

2. International Transportation :

FY27 Ocean/Inland Mega-RFP Round 1 for both RFPs launched on Jan 5, with strong participation from both incumbents and new suppliers (Ocean: 14 incumbents, 4 new; Inland: 8 incumbents, 27 new). Key milestones include: 12 of 14 ocean carriers accepting pre-RFP Terms & Conditions and U.S. agreements with 2 of 5 carriers to cap Overland Common Point (OCP) costs at $750 per container.
Overflow CFS Location for NA Load Planning Ho Chi Minh went live on 1/4, with UAT completed.
The Breaking50 UI is moving to production on 1/10 for HCM UAT, showing 99% data quality coverage for PO and factory bookings.

3. Athlete*-Led. AI-Powered. Partnered-Enabled Operations

Palantir POC : Finalizing a short list of 5 orchestration use cases for the next phase of collaboration with Palantir. Next Step: Review with on Tue 1/13 and then review the top use case with Palantir on Fri 1/16. Also exploring other providers for use cases
Orchestration Platform : Articulated a proposed approach to determine what agentic orchestration capabilities and possible vendors are needed to bring to life the Athlete*-led, AI-powered Operations vision for orchestration. Next Step: Present key points at next week’s AI Council meeting.
External Learning : Held a peer connect with Moderna to understand how they were able to rapidly scale AI across its supply chain. Recap is here .

4. Assortment Planning Worldwide Solution Confirmation

Week 1 of the worldwide solution confirmation workshop completed, landing ~20% of key design decisions, with a focus on the most critical and contentious items.
Outcomes of the top 5 most challenging decisions were reviewed with planning leadership.

5. NA Stores Flow first Demo complete; on track for February parallel run start

The team demonstrated the cornerstones of the Stores Flow system (StoreIQ) covering store allocation optimization, end-to-end order visibility (from DC to Front of Store), and Agentic Exception identification and action.
Working closely with NA Operations partners, we plan to operate the new system in parallel for a region in NA.

Bonus :

Functional Development: @channel

Launched LIFT newsletter to Operation s; post distribution achieved 1.2k LIFT site visits in a single day - our highest ever!
The second episode of 3-2-1: The Take Off Podcast is live! The topic is Growing the Value Pie with AI featuring Lauren Acoba (Zero100; ex‑Starbucks Ops) . This episode is about How AI is reshaping Operations—and how we can expand value with the right mindset, skills, foundations, and end‑to‑end orchestration. Let’s lace up and press play!

Weekly Updates 12.19.25

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:57:25 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

12.19.2025

1. Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA) ��: 14 days until go-live!! A unanimous decision from the Executive SteerCo was achieved to move forward with go-Live in January 2026! Overall program status is now green across all areas. Testing is complete across all phases, with limited outstanding items in progress to close. Deployment and Hypercare plans have been confirmed with go-live command centers planned for PHK, ELC, and EHQ. A huge thank you to all the Global, EMEA, GC, and NA partners that enabled us to truly Win as a Team !

2. Athlete*-led, AI-powered Operations

Palantir: Held a brainstorming session with Planning and Transportation experts on the orchestration use cases for the next phase of collaboration with Palantir. Next : Articulate a short list of 5-7 use case candidates and share with the VP of SCPO and VP of SCPT by Jan 13th.

3. Tariff Updates: Elliott Hill visited Washington, DC for a set of high-level meetings last week, including with Secretary Lutnick, Secretary Bessent, Senate Majority Leader Thune, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and an Oregon House of Representatives delegation. He also engaged with the Vietnamese Ambassador to the US.

4. Breaking 50 - Overall Status ��: J akarta Activation – Live and in hyper care; first CY recommendations shared with factory partners on 12/18. The next two weeks will focus on data quality and root-cause analysis for the lower CY recommendation (GC 23%, APLA 47%, NA 40%). The overall IB opt recommendation stands at 47%. Initial findings indicate that the low volume this week is affecting GC. PO accuracy remains strong at 96%; KPIs tracked weekly.

5. SKIMS Operations Deployment: EDI is LIVE!!!! SKIMS has placed their SP26 1PP (their Q1) orders via EDI. Currently partnering with SKIMS operations team, Nike EDI, and Nike NA MSC to validate the orders and work through best practices. Post-alignment, we will give the "go" signal to submit their SU26 orders via EDI.

Weekly Updates 12.12.25

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:07:14 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

12.12.2025

1. Fewer, Better Materials (FBM) ��: Footwear Value Case has been refreshed, and socialization continues across Supply Chain and Product Creation Leadership. Completed Value Case deep dive with FBM Steering Committee. Next Step: align on resourcing to finalize Q3 plans and commitments.

2. Breaking 50 - Overall Status ��

Jakarta Activation – Inbound Optimizer User Interface (UI) is now live in production, we're in shadow mode to validate CY recommendations and address remaining OCM inquiries. CY recommendations will begin next week, supported by regular syncs with OCM teams and hypercare.
With the Inbound Optimizer UI going live, we've unlocked Global volume of 17.5%.
Factory & CFS visits this week focused on gathering inputs from factory partners on the Advanced Visibility Framework (AVF), including impacts to their current processes. Additional discussions covered the engagement and communication plan for HCM activation and the scaling roadmap for remaining origins.

3. iTMS: NA iTMS Sri Lanka Load Planning exited hyper-care this week, working towards NA iTMS Ho Chi Minh go live in January. Testing strategy in progress for ASN reconciliation, also collaborating with the iTMS Carrier Booking team to develop ocean carrier facing metrics and dashboard. Data quality escalation path established for Freight Audit & Pay capability for post invoice receival.

4. Athlete* Led AI-Powered Operations

Overall status see HERE
Scope/Definition of Digital Twin: Collaborated with VP of SCPT PM to articulate what Digital Twin is in the context of Nike’s Agentic Operating System. Next steps: Finalize the draft in alignment with VP of SCPT PM and share with AI Council by 12/19
Define Next Steps for Palantir: Held a feedback session on the bootcamp reflections with business and tech experts and activated legal and info-security tracks for the next phase of the collaboration. Next steps: Create a shortlist of 5-7 potential use case candidates and share with the VP of SCPO and VP of SCPT on Jan 13th.

5. Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): 21 days until go-live! Overall program status remains yellow ��, trending green driven by progress with test execution and reporting. Day in the Life (DITL) testing is nearly complete, with 18 E2Es passed including DRS Flex, and the remaining two scenarios on track to close. Performance Testing continues to be a top focus area in preparation for go-live readiness. Code freeze occurred on 12/12 to ensure system stability for go-live. Final readiness conversations will occur on 12/15.

SCPO Huddle Recap 12.10.2025

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:24:47 GMT

Hey Team,

December’s SCPO Huddle wasn’t just about speed and precision—it was about pushing boundaries (and yes, Neal and Pre’s mustache game deserves its own highlight reel). If you missed it, watch the replay here .

The opening video (we promise it works this time) set the tone: Are we running at full pace, in the right direction? That’s the mindset we need as we head into the next phase. Here’s the quick hit, in video order:

Consumer Perspective
Innovation drives connection. Nike Mind, our first neuroscience-based footwear launching in January, redefines performance by activating the mind-body connection. Calm, focused, present… and fast.

Team Perspective
Winning as a team means mastering the fundamentals (Plan, Make, Deliver) and making every hand-off count. Breaking50 and SEC prove that when we simplify, collaborate, and accelerate, we unlock speed to market.

Org Perspective
Holiday is where operational excellence shines. Light Up Greatness shows what’s possible when we align across regions and functions to deliver flawlessly during critical moments.

Looking Ahead
We’re doubling down on AI integration and enterprise planning to sharpen speed and precision—because margin, revenue, and market share aren’t just numbers, they’re how we win. And here’s the kicker: none of it works without you. Your creativity and resilience are what turn strategy into reality .

Don’t just read about it—watch the video, feel the momentum, and ask yourself: What’s one way I can help us run smarter this week?

Weekly Updates 12.5.25

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:57:35 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

12.5.2025

1. EMEA International Transport Congestion : as a result of the strikes combined with high volumes in previous weeks is resulting in significant delays of impacted vessels/shipments. This results in high fluctuations in lead time of shipments. Maersk Gemini performs within standard lead times (40%) and CMA-CGM and ONE (35%) performance on lead time and reliability is poor which will result in GIA Move degradation. Three COSCO alliance vessels omitting Rotterdam and discharging in Zeebrugge. Delay of 2-4 weeks of 250 containers (COSCO, CMA, Evergreen). Containers on first two vessels have been transshipped to Rotterdam. For containers on 3rd vessel Bill of Lading, ASN's and customs declaration will be adjusted to release containers in Zeebrugge and deliver containers to final destinations. Impact at product level is in motion.

2. Athlete-Led AI Powered Operations : Last week Dr. Castillo from Ohio State University and Dr. Goldsby from University of Tennessee Knoxville —renowned experts in AI and supply chain management—led a two-day training for Nike’s Ops AI Council. The Council comprises senior leaders from operations & technology [more to come in Q3]. The event training aimed to accelerate the refinement and implementation of Nike’s AI strategy by 1) Educating Council members on AI fundamentals, 2) Providing hands-on experience with key AI tools. This training moved council members toward Level 2 (custom AI assistants with retrieval augmented generation (RAG)) and exposure to Level 3 (agentic workflows) which is exactly the capability stack needed to shape, trial, and scale AI across Operations.

3. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): 30 days until go-live!! Program remains yellow ��, driven by testing and reporting . Day in the Life (DITL) is on track. Defects are trending down, with 92% of Day 1 defects closed to date. Direct Ship Flexibility (DRS Flex) testing was successfully completed this week due to tremendous partnership across teams. DRS Alignment, Contract Sharing, Performance Testing, and Advance Shipment Notification (ASN) continue to be top focus areas, with ongoing testing and workaround identification where applicable
Marketplace Activation 3.0 Deployment: Deployment Get to Green plan to address action items for Cutover, Blackout and Pilot is tracking. Additional targeted pilot testing planned for December 8th and 9th. Focus on deployment communications and events, including Command Center support, Freeze communications, Hypercare enablement, and Go-Live/Hypercare planning.
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (GC + NA): NA has completed most planned testing, with majority of open items focused on Direct Ship. GC testing is progressing, with key open defects being resolved this week. GC/NA production plans are on track, with upcoming outage durations now confirmed

4. GC RFID Scaling - SIM x ATS Integration is LIVE !!!:

On December 4, the SIM x ATS integration solution successfully launched, removing key barriers to RFID expansion in GC ND Stores. The solution eliminates 2 hours/week of manual work in product movement and 2–5 hours/week in transfer/return processes—issues that slowed RFID rollout for the past five years. Starting December 8, GC will pilot two RFID-enabled stores, followed by three additional stores after the pilot. In the second half , five more stores will be enabled with RFID, delivering an estimated 28 hours/week efficiency gain and 5–7% improvement in style/size compliance .

5. APo9 Worldwide Program Mobilization

Resource Finalization - significant progress to close AP COE Resource gaps this week. Of 7 roles:
4 are confirmed
2 have interim contingency plan for critical activities through January
1 is TBD and targeting to finalize next week
Conducted 6 very effective onboarding for all COE/Business Owner/SME team members, covering Design and Program Principles and Governance Model and Roadmap. Deep Dives into Process Design and intro to Key Design Decisions to occur this week. All activities positioning program for successful KDD Workshop Jan Weeks 1 & 2 and full Solution Confirmation by January 30th.

Weekly Updates 11.21.25

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:38:33 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

11.21.2025

1. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): 44 days until go-live!! Program remains yellow ��, driven by testing and reporting .

Production Cutover began Saturday; Release A was completed as planned and data conversions are in progress. Day in the Life (DITL) testing continues to progress ahead of schedule with 6 of 21 E2Es passed. Main watch areas:
DRS Flexibility (DRS Flex)
Performance Testing and Advance Shipment Notification (ASN).
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (GC + NA): Overall, GC/NA testing is at 67% complete vs. 86% planned. NA DRS Flex and DRS Alignment testing is in progress. Ongoing communication with NA Supply Chain teams to prioritize open challenges. GC execution progressing where possible, pending defect resolution.

2. US Tariff Update:

New trade frameworks were announced with Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. For SV and GT, the US says that it will remove the reciprocal tariffs from textile and apparel products, originating under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). Honduras deal expected after the election Nov 30. If this is finalized and CAFTA reciprocal tariffs are removed, duty savings for NIKE would be ~$27m/year.

3. EMEA International Transport: Actual Inbound lead time at 63 days (+4 target). TT performance challenges and congestion in Rotterdam impacting CMA and ONE. Gemini (Maersk) performance stable. Preparing for announced strike Belgium 24-26 Nov . Impact on international transportation operations unclear. Inland terminals are operational. Port operations and inland waterways might be impacted.

4. Athlete*-Led, AI-Powered Operations: Digital Twin Update

Palantir X Nike 2-day bootcamp to gain hands-on experience where Nike teams worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Palantir engineers to build operational solutions for 2 use cases. This provided a tangible example of how Nike may leverage a digital twin platform to rethink our workflow for quality, speed and productivity improvements.
Here is a very well articulated 5-minute video explaining Palantir’s digital twin.
Next Up: Nike team feedback, architecture review, POC proposals, commercial terms exploration
Stores Flow POC with AWS: Working to improve the planning and execution of our stores flow, from allocation to distribution and store operations, with the goal of improving seasonal readiness and in-stock rate. To step change progress, we carved out a small technical team to assess how we can develop automation built on our operational learnings, starting with Allocation. Over the last seven weeks, the team developed optimization models for both NSO and NVS that were tested against our HO25 actual allocation performance. We demonstrated:
improve in-stock rate (~3-7%), while reducing weeks of cover (0.5-2 weeks)
reducing planning times from 4-6 weeks for season start to ~5 hours at the style/color/size/store combinations across NSO & NVS.
testing a new working model where a small number of operators will be embedded with the technical team to co-develop the allocation optimization and execution system (Store Operations System), grounded in end-to-end observability and AgenticAI capabilities for scaled execution detection and actions across distribution, transportation, and store operations. We are working toward starting a NA regional evaluation of the system in Q4.

5. NA New Partner Onboarding (B2B Acceleration - EDI): 3 Accounts went live this week, testing started on additional 2 (SKIMS & ShopBob). Trends International 3PP delayed due to Account/Partner delays, aligned new activation date of 12/8.

Mint Green CA is LIVE on EDI as of 11/17
DTLR is LIVE on EDI as of 11/19
DSW CA is LIVE on EDI as of 11/19

Bonus

LIFT: Thanks to Dan McKenzie for holding an "Ask Me Anything" session for all the team mates who completed all the Financial Acumen Launch courses ��

Weekly Updates 11.07.25

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:39:32 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

11.7.2025

1. MFP CSR o9 Bridge Solution �� : Completed first integration of Geo to Global forecast in bridge solution, enabling rolling forecast visibility by Sport. Sport Attribute Technical Activation planned for December, finalizing the Business Activation approach Week of Nov 10th.

2. SEC UPDATE: 58 days until go-live ��

Program remains yellow ��, driven by testing and deployment opportunities . Day in the Life (DITL) testing began as scheduled with 21 E2E business flows. DRS Flexibility (DRS Flex) and DRS Alignment remain top focus areas. Two DRS Flex E2E tests were launched this week, with the third planned for next week. Other key Supply Chain watch areas include Performance Testing and Advance Shipment Notification (ASN). Teams are also focused on prioritizing open defects to ensure go-live readiness.
Supply Chain Digital learning is underway , tracking against a 12/19 completion deadline for end users. Logistics is at 57% complete, MSC at 24%. MSC launched classroom training this week for the NMP teams. Logistics classroom training is currently at 59% complete. Planning classroom training completed in October.
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (GC + NA): The final round of testing kicked off for GC and North America this week. Overall, GC/NA testing is at 14% complete vs. 12% planned with a 43% pass rate. Expect to see improvement in the pass rate as NA blocking defects are now closed. GC scope is limited this round, with teams removing blockers to continue execution.

3. FY27 Ocean & Air Freight: Launched Air Freight workshops with a full-day session with Kuehne+Nagel, gaining insights into aircraft types, charter vs. lease models, and routing options using Nike data to shape Air Freight category strategy across Nike Supply Chain. Began Ocean Freight Long-Term Agreement (LTA) exploration with Geo Operations teams to assess the need for tailored regional approaches.

4. SU26 Order Entry is complete with cumulative ~ $600M in new business (Gross Bookings) now flowing through EDI. In some cases, EDI connectivity was a prerequisite for doing business (e.g., Amazon). In all cases, EDI is generating benefits including: 1) Eliminating manual order entry, 2) Improving order book accuracy across the code/calendar, 3) Enabling ASN capabilities for Customers and 4) Accelerating the Order-to-Cash lifecycle.

Risk for Wave 2 & 3 Account Onboarding: we are still closely monitoring testing environment delays (due to SEC); stable, integrated environments are needed ongoing to support EDI Order2Cash and Procure2Pay testing.

5. Deployment Optimization reaching ISC Yield of 99.8%. Evaluating Plans to Accelerate Inbound & Stores Flow to Drive Revenue & Margin.

WIN: RSCs + SD1 served 71.12% (MTD) of all Digital demand. ISC Yield actualized at 99.81% (MTD).
The cross-functional iTMS team is evaluating ways to accelerate the global adoption of iTMS moving from GEO-driven adoption to ‘origin-driven’ (all volume from an origin will use iTMS). Concurrently, we are engaging deeply with BlueYonder (iTMS vendor) to assess upgrading to the latest version of their platform to unlock AI and simplifying carrier onboarding.
To complement the ongoing Store Seasonal Readiness work, we are conducting a POC to evaluate how we can automate (AIML) and increase the quality of allocation plans to assist NA Store Allocators.

Bonus:

The 1st 3-2-1: The Take Off Podcast episode is live!

In our first episode, we talk with Dr. Thomas J. Goldsby , one of the most respected authorities on all things Operations, about the importance of adaptability, preparing for the AI revolution and creating value for the consumer. Designed to be in your ears while you connect with your sport of choice!

Let's lace up, press play and Take Off together

Weekly Updates 10.31.25

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:10:46 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.31.2025

1. SEC ⌛

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): 65 days until go-live!! Overall program status remains yellow , driven by Dress Rehearsal and testing delays. Dress Rehearsal Blackout completed one day behind plan utilizing contingency time to minimize impact to Pilot. Pilot execution completed below target due to resolved tech aligned defects . An After-Action Review is in progress for both activities. DRS Flexibility and DRS Alignment remain priority areas for the Supply Chain and Planning teams, with end-to-end testing of DRS Flexibility scheduled to begin next week. Other key Supply Chain watch areas include Performance Testing and Advance Shipment Notification (ASN).

2. Planning - AP o9 World Wide ��

Decision made for NA NMP to revise the 2.0 design to align with newly refreshed Worldwide (WW) design principles to ensure consistency and scalability . The associated implementation timeline is under review. This puts us collectively closer to a fully harmonized capability!
In process to establish AP Business Resources necessary for AP Design and Activation success, roster targeting to be finalized by Nov 6th. Approach to onboard new roster drafted along with path/milestones to solution confirmation by end Jan '26. Reviewing draft with Program LT, target to align Program Sponsors by Wk Nov 10. Work on revised KDD's needed for Solution Confirmation in flight, targeting 11/14 for first review with Program LT.

3. LIFT-OFF ��‍��

Presented LIFT Program at Zero100 Live conference in San Diego. Shared our story on functional development connecting it to their skills of the future session. Nike Conference Attendees included: Dmitry Velikan, Michelle Harris, Mat Thomas, David Ringe, Chad Pfleiger, Syam Antony and Erica Swanson.

4. Breaking 50 Program

From Yellow, back to Green ��. IB Optimizer UI deployment Go-live on 12/08 has been socialized with stakeholders, allowing us to scale load planning resulting in more Consolidator Bypass faster than the iTMS implementation. Initial change impact assessment completed with OCM; a few high-impact process areas identified, with a UI demo to be provided next week for reassessment.
HCM x GC Pilot: Tracking 40% CY performance (OR week of 13th Oct), 61% cumulative, and 73% week-over-week. Factory Operations Assessment: All findings from FOA visits at Ching Luh and Feng Tay completed; next step is to define a clear actionable plan by 11/4.

5. US Tariff Update

President Trump and President Xi met 10/29 striking a conciliatory tone focused on deescalating bilateral tensions. President Trump agreed to cut the fentanyl-based tariffs by half (from 20-10%). This announcement brings down the additional US tariffs on Nike products from China from 30% to 20%. President Xi agreed to suspend rare earth export controls for one year, in addition to increasing US soybean purchases. Issues like Taiwan and semiconductors were not addressed. These tentative agreements are not effective as laws yet and will need to go through formal processes in the coming days.

Weekly Updates 10.24.25

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:13:35 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.24.2025

1. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): The program continues to track yellow overall �� , driven by red testing status �� due to development + testing progress. Strong progress was made on closure of Cycle 3 End-to-End testing. DRS Flexibility and DRS Alignment are still the top priorities for the Supply Chain and Planning teams. Other key Supply Chain watch areas include Performance Testing and Advance Shipment Notification (ASN). Dress Rehearsal, which is the final practice before going live, is underway with transactional data conversion activities. Numerous EMEA and Global team members are working toward achieving key milestones this weekend to prepare for pilot activities starting on 10/28.
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (GC + NA ): Global team is continuing to partner with GC + NA on pending testing and deployment plans. GC at 91% pass rate, 4 variations remaining to meet exit criteria. Two pending defects will enable GC to meet exit criteria. NA variations blocked due to DRS readiness and four remaining APIP global tests to execute.

2. Athlete* Led AI Powered Operations Strategy:

Palantir bootcamp scheduled for 17-19th November
Use Case 1: we will focus on Geo planners resolving Unplanned by managing BE/BL parameters for headwear styles.
Use Case 2: we will focus on the “Origin Bus Stop” problem, where PO GAC dates and sailing schedules are not synchronized, leading to additional dwell time and costs via CFS shipments.
Rajeev & AC to present initial view of our approach to empower AI within our teams during our Asia offsite next week

3. Assortment Planning:

Completed Assortment Planning After Action Review, surfacing 5 major themes creating challenges to solution design and adoption and developed draft of Guiding Principles and Solution Design Principles for the scale to Worldwide. Principles to be final/approved by mid-December.
Key Decision Tuesday 10/28 to confirm path for NA NMP Revised Design Activation

4. Distribution Programs:

Canada �� Digital Program – SIT Delays & Risk to Timeline
SIT execution behind schedule due to SAP AFS blockers and AWS outage; smoke testing extended from 2 to 5+ days.
50 defects remain; Go-Live still targeted for 4/2, but RCW exceptions likely.
J30 �� Progress gaining traction - focus is on closing out key design gaps and supporting work outside Node
Business and Program teams are engaged with Distribution teams to work to resolve open design issues with urgency and reduce the list to 13 from 61.
Functional Testing continues with IB Value Drops. Rakuten testing and defect resolution in progress. Paperless Returns testing process being finalized.
Requirements for Operational reports being finalized with expected development to be complete by End of Quarter.
We are focused on reengaging on work that supports J30 but that is outside the Node space - specifically SAP and Marketplace teams to validate of solutions. Installation of Nike Network has begun at Flight.

5. Partner Onboarding (SP26 & SU26) – �� RED Status Due to SCPI Reconfiguration

Recent SCPI environment changes disrupted NMP testing; migration to FHQ underway.
Testing expected to resume 10/28, aligned with EMEA MA 3.0 Pilot.

Bonus

Factory Partner Summit: We welcomed more than 500 of our leading apparel, footwear, and material factory partners last week to our PHK campus in a powerful expression of our shared commitment to Serving Athletes*. Thank you to the SCPI teams for making it all happen, you played a key role is bringing this all together and ensuring it was a powerful and memorable experience for all, with clear takeaways! Our Flow team also got to present to the Partners our 'Breaking 50' program [Consolidator by-pass] which was well received and CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! ��

Weekly Updates 10.17.25

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:33:23 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.17.2025

Assortment Planning Capability [o9]: establishing approach to address Assortment Planning adoption gaps in NA and establish path to �� Scale. First AAR for NA o9 tenant deployment session held with prior team, insights will finalize in second session next week to complete this work. Outcome to inform path forward with POV established by 10/24. (Planning Capabilities & SCPT)
Long Lead Review | Thailand DC: Secured Maersk conditional offer acceptance for Thailand 3PL operations. At rate compression based by RFQ results, Nike will extend Maersk for +3yrs with additional reduction in contract value ��. In GC, WHQ 3PL Procurement team trained 100% of the GC SC Procurement in Jaggaer [procurement tool], leveraging data from prior RFPs. Next: Next week, conduct APLA Tepana DC negotiations with at PHK. (Procurement & Flow)
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): 79 days until Go Live!! The program is tracking yellow overall �� , driven by red �� testing status due to development + testing progress. DRS Flexibility and DRS Alignment remain the highest priority focus areas for Supply Chain and Planning, with daily tracking and escalation activities in place. EDI, Node, and Trade & Transportation defect resolution also continue to be prioritized. (SEC Capabilities, SEC, & SCPT)
Future of Football ⚽ Supply Workshop : Ran a FTB Supply Optimization workshop at PHK together with 25 FTB Planning leaders and SME's with the goal to identify process and business decisions to increase GIA performance to >90% for World Cup 26 (picture below). Full year benefits will also include increased revenue capture after key moments and less on-hand inventory at end of season for disposition. ( Flow)
Breaking 50 - Overall Status Green ��:

Program Update - Completed stakeholder analysis and identification, and started the impact analysis for Jakarta activation. Next immediate tasks: finalize the consolidated project plan, monitor key risks and actions, and restart stakeholder communication and engagement.
Lowering the CY threshold from 85% to 75% in iTMS: Approval to proceed has been received for EMEA. North America has provided sign-off to align the CY threshold and has requested further analysis on cost and volume implications for HCM (CY RCP) when data becomes available.
Factory Visit & Assessment (picture below): Discovered multiple operational insights during factory visits that directly impact CY loading efficiency. Identified areas to scale CY, deep dive into rejection, process timeline constraints, facilities readiness, manpower and cost to unlock CY at scale. Gathered actionable recommendations to improve CY loading and reduce rejection, supporting future scaling efforts. Next Steps: Consolidate insights from the factory operation assessment (site visit) and focus scale planning on areas with the greatest potential for quick CY improvement. (Flow)

BONUS:
Functional Development: Celebrated the graduation of the 10th and final GLDP class with a reflection session, connections with Advisory Board members and sponsors and a ceremony to present their Victory trophies and capstone presentation. Thanks to Luis Nava for sharing his reflections and closing the ceremony. Our focused leadership development continues through FUEL. (SCPI)

Weekly Updates 10.10.25

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:56:18 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.10.2025

1. MFP Sports Model Enabled for Planners to underpin the Move to Sport

The change empowers MFP planners to transition from consumer-led offense to a sports-led offense for planning. Planners can focus on growth and profitability across strategic marketplace channels, with integrated GEO & Global planning, supporting CSR. The change enables in-tool planning capabilities save planners between 7 to 10 hours each, streamlining workflows and freeing up resources for strategic tasks.
The work was executed in 4-weeks from concept to realization to support Nike’s “WIN NOW” strategy demonstrating effective cross-functional agility.

2. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0

EMEA: 86 days until Go Live!! The program remains green overall ��, with schedule yellow due to development + testing progress. DRS Flexibility and DRS Alignment remain the highest priority focus areas for Supply Chain and Planning, with daily tracking and escalation activities in place. EDI, Node, and Trade & Transportation defect resolution also continue to be prioritized. Primary testing focus continues to be completion of the 75 end-to-end scenarios. Dress Rehearsal is tracking green with critical path objects progressing as planned. Supply Chain data conversion activities on schedule to kick off week of 10/20 ⏳
GC + NA : GC fully executed at 91% pass rate; NA advancing with 95% executed and 94% pass rate.

3. Athlete*-Led AI Powered Supply Chain Discovery:

Exploration with Active Build Bootcamps : Moving forward to organize a Palantir-led bootcamp focused on Supply Planning and First Mile Transportation use cases.
AC visited MIT this week: Discovery on framework for establishing a workflow heat-map across our current Supply Chain & Planning processes.

4. US Tariff Updates :

The White House has announced new tariffs on specific sectors, including heavy machinery, furniture, and large trucks, among others.
Friday, new proposed tariffs for China were announced. Details are still scarce, but at the moment 100% increase on existing tariffs. Financial impact being shared with SteerCo this weekend
The Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in the tariff legality case in November. A decision could come as early as January, but may not come until June.
Trading partners, including Indonesia and Vietnam, continue negotiating with the US on tariff rates, exemptions, and non-stacking.
India's Minister of Commerce and Industry noted that the US Government shutdown will likely delay ongoing bilateral trade talks.

5. NMP Partner Onboarding requires tighter cross-domain (SAP) execution to enable Marketplace Growth for SP26 & SU26

SP26 & SU26 is impacted by three critical SAP defects (one blocking). All EDI transactions must be live by 10/24; escalations in progress. We have met with the SAP team this week to escalate and highlight the urgency. Defect resolution is required to complete testing with our Partners and push all remaining EDI transactions to Production by 10/24.

Weekly Updates 10.3.25

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:08:15 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.3.2025

1. MFP o9 Bridge Solution to Enable Sport Offense - Testing for Global 10/6 Deployment that enables CSR plan by Sport for key metrics only was completed 10/2 with 2 main open issues to be closed before Monday Deployment. Official Go/No Go Decision to occur afternoon of Friday 10/3. Geo Deployment to Enable Rolling 6 Season Fcst targeted to Deploy 10/13, testing to be conducted next week.

Global Deployment is recommended to 'Go' for use for CSR. Seth/Jun are official approvers, targeting email sign off by 9am Monday 10/6

2. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): Overall Supply Chain testing results continue to be strong, with DRS Flexibility as the highest priority focus area. Defect escalation and prioritization are also occurring for challenges in EDI, Node, and Trade & Transportation capabilities to ensure resolution by end of Cycle 3 testing.
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (GC + NA ): Overall GC/NA testing is tracking 97% to plan through Week 12. Current pass rate is 85%. Key NA Supply Chain testing watch areas are Trade and Transportation (due to ASN + Error Handler delays), and Node (blocked by a PPM defect).
Marketplace Activation 3.0 Deployment: Supply Chain teams continue to be on track for upcoming Dress Rehearsal activities. Resource scheduling and co-location plans are ongoing to ensure 24x7 coverage during data conversion activities.

3. Quality Offense Metric Framework:

L1: Agreed on defective returns as the main lagging Level 1 metric to be included in the Athlete Promise dashboard. Footwear has over 80% of data available and will be added to dashboard in Q2.
L2: Finalizing definitions and processes for Make/Move metrics (Internal Factory & Marketplace Audits) to prepare for a leadership pitch on 10/16.

4. Breaking 50: Achieve 50% CY Loading

Build Scaling Plan – After weeks of planning, we have developed a go-forward scale plan for the Jakarta Inbound Optimizer go-live on Nov 28. The work is in progress, and a full-year scaling view will be shared by 10/10.
Stakeholder Assessment – Working with geos to update stakeholder lists; next step is to engage Origin Ops and OCM to prepare for Training and UAT (Jakarta activation). Shared UI demo of transportation portal with Origin Ops this week.
Data & Insights – Visuals on reject codes prepared for deep dive analysis; working with the work streams on quick-win solution/actions.
Weekly reporting coming soon....��

5. Nike Marketplace Partner (SP26 & SU26) and Outbound Carrier EDI Onboarding challenges

Prolonged environment instability caused three weeks of testing and defect resolution delays from dependent teams, forcing manual Nike.net order entry for SU26.
Intermodal and LTL carriers delayed due to EDI integration challenges and poor responsiveness (CEVA, RXO, others).
Looking ahead, we expect the addition of partners to be a consistent theme. We plan to invest time to review our current processes for onboarding and how to simplify and make onboarding more predictable.

SCPO Huddle Recap 09.08.2025

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:57:02 GMT

Hey Team,

Thank you to everyone who joined our FY26 Q1 Huddle! If you missed it or want to revisit the content shared, you can catch the replay here .

We kicked off by recognizing the pivotal shifts happening across SCPO— setting us up for a sharper, more unified focus on the Win Now strategy and the Athlete* Promise throughout the supply chain. We have also evolved from SCO (Supply Chain Operations) to SCPO (Supply Chain & Planning Operations) to reflect the integration of Planning into the org . Alongside these changes, we spotlighted three core areas featured in every huddle:

Consumer Perspective: World Cup 2026 - AP/AC Readiness
Guest speaker Erika Swan, VP Apparel & Accessories Supply Chain, joined us to share the World Cup 2026 Apparel journey and the relentless work behind delivering the product portfolio with 100% on-time, 100% quality execution.

Org Perspective: CSCO Strategy
Erica Swanson, Sr. Director Supply Chain Innovation, took us on a deep dive into the CSCO strategy, the Athlete* Promise.

Team Perspective: FY26 Objectives & Annual Targets
Several senior leaders took the stage to walk through this fiscal year's shared objectives, annual targets, and some of the underlying work teams are focusing on to drive progress.

*Zoom Replay Password: SCPO925!

Weekly Updates 9.19.25

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:27:18 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

09.19.2025

Procurement Air MI: ✈️ Award Recommendation from Outbound Transport (four sealed bid rounds) and 3PL Distribution (three sealed bid rounds) RFx event approved by FW PSC LT and Air MI LT. First 12 month cost reduction across 5 contracts estimated at $10.9M on FY25 baseline of $28.5M. Next: GSC update 9/29; CPMO approval request 10/6; final contracting.
Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): �� The overall program status is green, while the schedule is yellow due to ongoing challenges with Finance and Direct Ship Flexibility (DRS Flex) testing . DRS Flex issues delayed the start of end-to-end (E2E) testing this week for relevant scenarios; E2E testing is now planned to begin on 9/22. With five weeks remaining in Cycle 3, key milestones are being identified to support progress toward meeting final E2E testing objectives.
Supply Chain Capabilities: 9/26 Nike x SKIMS Launch - WE ARE A GO for Nike.com and Stores!!!!: �� Stores Launch volumes (Aventura, HOI NYC, Santa Monica, The Grove, SOHO and NCS) have been received. Teams are now finalizing inventory receiving and validating carton accuracy to ensure alignment with launch expectations; NDDC Digital live Op’s huddles and bridge line are set and will include Stores.
Lift Off!: ��‍�� Over 200 G50+ CSCO team members attended the first Take Off session featuring industry expert Geoff Woods; attendees reported increased optimism, knowledge and confidence in AI (see below) and VP SCPO shared the work externally . Next Up: Hold after action review to inform next steps. Podcast: Built plan and held working session on Take Off podcast. Identify host, land format/tone/name and confirm first guest.
iTMS: Overall status: Green �� with NA build progressing as planned. Key milestone: All master data promoted to BY production. Freight Audit and Pay workstream execution KPIs are improving, collaborating with EMEA to confirm business go-live date. Execution (ASN, Track and Trace, Diverts) workshop completed this week, plan to revisit the key design for Geo sign off in 2 weeks.

Weekly Updates 8.22.25

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:38:06 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

08.22.2025

1. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): The overall status of the SEC Program remains green ; however, the schedule is currently categorized as yellow �� due to ongoing Finance Change Requests and the impact of Finance defects on end-to-end execution. Within Supply Chain, the primary scheduling challenge continues to be the delayed development of Direct Ship Flexibility, which is now projected for completion on August 29th. Supply Chain teams continue to surpass their functional testing objectives, achieving 105% against plan with a pass rate of 95% . Cycle 3 testing is scheduled to continue through October 17th.

2. US Tariff Updates:

The US government extended the tariff pause (which stands at +30% on top of normal rates) on China until 11/10/25.
A planned visit by US trade negotiators to New Delhi this month was cancelled amid trade tensions and rising US tariff rates on India.
Trading partners, including Indonesia and Vietnam, continue negotiating with the US before their agreements are published.
The US and EU published details of their trade agreement. The agreement caps tariffs on most EU exports to the US at 15% but will apply the higher of regular or reciprocal rate, up to the 15%. The EU rates are non-stacking on top of the regular tariff rates.

3. Deployment Optimization (DO) impacted by Production Issues

DO was unable to integrate or create inventory movements (STO’s) from 8/14 to 8/18. Currently, ~80% of proposals are integrated. We anticipate dip in DO metrics on both RSC SOB and In-region fulfillment for September in North America. The two major issues impacting DO are below. We are leveraging these issues to conduct thorough after action reviews and improve incident management tracking for these systems
Reservation Process (Ongoing): There is an Active S2 Priority ticket with S/4 CAR team - to address timeout issues on DO reservations leading to almost no STOs being executed from 8/14 to 8/18. We have temporary increased the timeout threshold within CAR. Initially STOs worked for 2 days however, the stopgap failed to execute 20% of the STOs on 8/21. The CAR team is currently working to identify the issues.
Job Failure (Resolved): On 8/20 in STO creation within S/4 that halted all STOs from getting created because of a failed job. The fix for this issue was applied on the same day.

4. Global Node Workstreams sequencing and timing being assessed post Tech re-org

We are concurrently working on Brimley readiness for Canada Digital enablement, J30 , and Terrace. While Brimley remains on schedule, we are recovering to stable delivery on J30 to meet overall program timelines.
Teams are engaged with EMEA Logistics leadership to assess impact on the Terrace program timing

5. Functional Development: Take Off �� [outside in]: Continued planning for 9/16 Leading through the AI revolution session for all grade 50 & up initially: Please respond to invite and encourage your leaders & peers to join us on 9/16!!

Weekly Updates 8.01.25

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:25:21 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

08.01.2025

1. US Tariff Update: ��

The White House released an Executive Order (EO) revising reciprocal tariff rates ahead of the Aug. 1 pause deadline, including a chart outlining new official rates for many nations. Key duty rates include: Vietnam (20%), Indonesia (19%), Cambodia (19%), India (25%). The EO states that countries will face the tariffs outlined in the order until any updates are memorialized in new bilateral agreements, leaving the space open for changes. Countries not included on the list will face a 10% tariff. The EO does not include updated rates for China. US-China talks concluded this week without an announced extension of the tariff pause.
Goods determined as transshipped by CBP will face an additional 40% duty although how transshipment will be defined or measured is unclear.
Goods shipped before 12:01 AM Aug. 7 and entered before 12:01 AM Oct. 5 face current rates (10% baseline); goods shipped after 12:01 AM Aug. 7 or shipped before 12:01 AM Aug. 7 and entered after Oct. 5 face new rates.
The White House released an executive order suspending de minimis globally, effective Aug. 27. Will impact NBY/CBY, analysis in progress.
President Trump shared on social media that the US and Mexico will enter a 90-day trade negotiating period, during which he would not raise bilateral tariffs.
Cross-functional working group of Supply Chain, GPA, Legal, and Finance continue to quickly conduct impact assessments and prepare communications to the Steerco and SLT.

2. AirMI Mega-RFP: ✈️�� Conducted 3PL and Outbound Face-to-Face negotiations with 5 suppliers; first 2 are incumbents: Expeditors, OIA, DHL, K+N, Maersk. OIA accepted conditional offer, pulling forward additional $500K cost reduction in FY26. Entering RFQ round 4, cost reduction estimate for 12 months stands at ~$9M (36% cost reduction in OB, 8% cost reduction in 3PL). Next: Execute round 4, SteerCo review on 8/8.

3. Automated Packaging driving efficiency, service and sustainability ��

Sparckticus at DASH RSC NA - Sparck (a Packsize company) multi-unit autopacking (cartons) stabilization post June '25 go live: The project team, Locus, and SPARCK Increased on site support this week during B2S. The increased production allowed further observations and refinements to be discussed and implanted to improve the process for SPARCKTICUS. We are continuing to check-off hypercare exit criteria and have completed our ramp plan as we begin collecting and analyzing the data for our pilot success criteria.
Alpaca at COURT DC EMEA - CMC Paper Pro autopacking, APP & EQ singles (envelops), with north star/phase 2 activation of multi-unit autopacking: Successful stress test this week. Good progress is being made on the NLS operating method elements to be ready for go-live on Sept 15 '25 (standard work, workplace organisation, restore flow, daily management, etc). Strong x-functional collaboration between involved teams giving good confidence towards go-live.

4. J30 - Flight DC: Building construction has been successfully completed, and the facility has officially been handed over to Nike. Installation and commissioning of the material handling equipment (MHE) will commence shortly. The program remains in a yellow status as technology teams (post reorg impact) continue to assess capacity planning for the remainder of FY26 and build out a get-to-green plan next week.

5. Outbound Transportation: �� Transportation LLR deck was reviewed and approved by leadership. LLR was formally kicked off this week with Global Procurement and SCO- Transportation Capabilities having a resource allocation working session for all the LLR RFP's upcoming.

Weekly Updates 7.25.25

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:22:40 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

07.25.2025

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): �� Overall program status remains green with Cycle 3 Testing continuing to exceed plan with E2Es kicking off for both Distributor and Israel this week. Supply Chain achieved 117% execution to plan with an 88% pass rate! Teams are engaging stakeholders and developing learning resources. Direct Ship Flexibility and Digital Order Flow (multi-plant) remain development priorities.
Distribution Long Leadtime Review (LLR) - Configuration 8 Conversion (C8C, "Takeover in Place): �� ConnECt node data pack was sent to 3PLs last Friday, 7/18. Additional data requests that have come through from the 3PLs have been addressed. ConnECt case study workshop timing (virtually) scheduled for DHL, GXO and Maersk 8/4.
LIFT Program -Launch: Went live with Launch release 2, including 7 new courses on Data Management, Analytics and Financial Acumen. Saw our highest ever daily LIFT site visits on 7/22 (nearly doubling the previous record) and new second highest 7/23. Next Up : Finalize release 3 courses (Forecasting, Simulation and Influence) by 8/8
US Tariff Update:
Indonesia and the US reached a trade agreement framework, although the details remain scarce, legal text has not been issued and no timeline is included. Negotiations continue on various points of the agreement, particularly:
Timeline: It is unclear whether rate changes will occur on August 1 or if the 10% rate will remain in place until negotiations conclude.
Sectoral exemptions: The White House release says it “may also identify certain commodities that are not naturally available or domestically produced in the United States for a further reduction in the reciprocal tariff rate.”
Trade association partners & Indonesian government stakeholders are focused on footwear & apparel inclusion in proposed list of exempt goods.
President Trump announced additional agreements on Truth Social, neither of which have been confirmed by trading partners. Japan will face 15% tariff on exports to the US and The Philippines will face a 19% tariff. Details on the negotiations and deal with Vietnam remain unclear.
Flow Operations : A Nike chartered air flight to Chicago went smoothly to get �� HEAT�� to athletes* in advance of WBNA All Star weekend. First Mile worked with MSC Seasonal Readiness to identify specific POs and negotiated lower AF costs by ~$30K. PFA teams were engaged to ensure accounts had visibility to product and were able to receive quickly to hit launch targets. The import Customs clearance was seamless. Another great example of running together as one team and the “why” behind the work accomplished to automate solutions and strengthen partnerships. All chartered Sabrina 3 product was delivered by mid-week last week. This allowed the shoes to be available for a key brand moment at the WNBA All-Star game.

Polaris: Optimizing Nike's Inbound Supply Chain

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:29:11 GMT

The Polaris research paper focuses on uncovering opportunities to increase cost efficiency and responsiveness in Nike's inbound supply chain through bold, data-driven analysis. You can access the complete research paper, the executive summary, or the part(s) most relevant to you by using the links at the bottom of this page. Here's a breakdown of the focus on each part.

Part 1 : Explores how planned transit times are calculated, used, and measured against, with recommendations on driving upstream efficiency.
Part 2 : Discusses the impact of dynamic demand-supply match on signals that drive the flow of supply and a call for change.
Part 3 : Examines opportunities for increased efficiency by optimizing how products are loaded at origin, supported by simulations and case studies.

Weekly Updates 7.18.25

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:29:51 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

07.18.2025

1. Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): �� The overall program status has improved to green this week. The Mock 3 Pilot activities delivered very strong results, with the team completing over 93% of planned validations. Cycle 3 Testing week 2 execution exceeded expectations, and six end-to-end processes were initiated as scheduled. Key Supply Chain focus areas for open development continue to be Direct Ship Flexibility + Digital Order Flow (multi-plant). Deployment status remains at yellow while mitigation plans are pending.

2. US Tariff Update

Indonesia and the United States reached a trade agreement, although the details remain scarce. According to Trump, imports into the US from Indonesia will face a 19% tariff. Whether this is incremental or includes existing tariffs imposed on Indonesia, is unclear. Pres. Prabowo has also said Indonesia will continue negotiating.
President Trump has continued releasing letters on Truth Social threatening new tariff rates. He threatened the EU with a 30% tariff rate, Mexico with 30%, and Canada with 35%. Brazil was threatened with a 50% tariff rate unless they drop investigations into former President Bolsonaro. He shared this week that he will soon send letters to approximately 150 countries, informing them of a 10 or 15% tariff on exports to the US.
Details on the negotiations and deal with Vietnam remain unclear. It was reported that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called to the US-ASEAN Business Council to continue supporting attempts to secure a final tariff agreement.

3. Trade & Customs: EU-Indonesia trade agreement negotiation - Leaders from the EU and Indonesia announced that they have reached a political agreement to advance the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), with conclusion by September 2025. For Nike, significant duty savings can be expected upon implementation of CEPA. In FY24, Nike paid > USD $60 Million in duties for the Indonesia-EU trade lane. It will take some time to fully assess the CEPA market access package to Nike (the agreement has to be concluded first) with the soonest expected effective date would be early 2027.

4. Geo Inventory Availability: GIA Forum held July 16th with Geo, Product, and Planning leaders. Team compiled all inputs for forum, and built recap to be shared with executive leadership next week. The GIA working group will go over feedback and will align on action items on Monday debrief call (7/21). August GIA forum will be focused on Geo to Marketplace logic socialization (Phase 4).

5. Procurement: NA | Outbound Packaging RFP- �� Upon conclusion of a four round RFP process, 4-vendor scenario (2 incumbent, 2 new) with >$7M Cost Reduction savings profile is moving forward for product testing. Next: Site visits to vendor facilities in the coming weeks to assess operations/service/quality. Vendor transitions could begin as early as Sep 2025, contingent on meeting Nike's quality/service standards and contracting.

Weekly Updates 7.11.25

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:21:35 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

07.11.2025

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): The overall program status is yellow , with focus on two primary areas: 1) Mock 3 After Action Review and 2) Cycle 3 testing scope . Mock 3 ‘Pilot’ is scheduled to begin on Tuesday 7/15 . The pilot phase follows go-live to confirm that business transactions and data flows operate as intended. Members of the EMEA + Global SEC Supply Chain teams are highly involved in these pilot activities and have been preparing for next week’s initial process validation. This week, teams also started Cycle 3 testing execution, which will last for 15 weeks.
Project SPARCKT1CUS at DASH : The Everest machine is officially Live at Dash. What started as a bold idea two years ago is now a reality: the first-ever multi-unit, automated pack machine in Nike’s global distribution network. This six-month pilot isn't just an automation / tech milestone - it’s a game-changing move in how we serve our athletes in a faster, smarter, and more sustainable fashion. See movie on Workvivo
Project Blueprint EBP X CODE integration: Held final recommendations workshop with LT Sponsor group, in preparation for hand-over to appropriate functional teams. Delivered ‘top 10’ recommendations for socialization with SLT.
LIFT [launch] �� 7/21 course release �� 7 total courses: Data Management, Analytics, Financial Acumen. Next Up : Finalize and test content in Workday environment, prepare new skill pages on LIFT site, host LIFT Leader Connects 7/17, offer preview experience for First Movers 7/17 and align with Comms on 7/22 Global Connect plan
US Tariff update:

President Trump signed an Executive Order extending the pause on reciprocal tariffs until Aug. 1. During this time, the 10% global baseline tariff and 30% tariff rate on China remain in effect.
The White House sent letters to 14 countries, informing them of new tariff rates that will go into effect Aug. 1, unless they broker new trade deals with the U.S. Most of these rates are the same or very similar to the initial 'reciprocal' rates announced in April. Indonesia received a letter informing them of a 32% tariff rate, Cambodia 36%, and Malaysia 25%.
Vietnam still has not confirmed the 20% tariff rate shared by President Trump via Truth Social, nor has a bilateral agreement been announced.Vietnam and Indonesia continue active negotiations.
The de minimis exemption for commercial shipping imports was removed as part of the 2025 reconciliation bill (“big beautiful bill”), effective July 1, 2027. Would impact NBY/CBY, review in progress.

Weekly Updates 6.20.25

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:40:27 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

06.20.2025

1. US Tariff Update:

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade released a statement that they met with NIKE, Walmart, and Exxon, reiterating the need for continued support from the U.S. business community.
Tariff negotiations continue for Vietnam, Indonesia, and India, but no concrete progress toward a deal has been reported.
A request was submitted this week to the Supreme Court to expedite review of Trump's use of IEEPA to institute tariffs and that the case should bypass the US Court of Appeals.
FDRA (trade association) sent a letter to the US Trade Rep (USTR) about the importance of Vietnam to the industry and requested a meeting with USTR officials, which is scheduled for 6/20. ( SCO Flow - Trade & Customs)

2. S1 Incident EMEA: Cortez Distribution Center. A Severity 1 incident (INC7793856) caused a 7+ hour operational halt at Cortez, impacting 148 athletes and resulting in 280 lost workload hours and seven missed shipping cutoffs. A workaround mitigated further disruption. Root cause is under investigation (PRB0072743), with a full fix planned for Monday during EMEA hours. (SCPT)

3. Bulk Air EMEA ��: SEC has finished the level of effort analysis for implementing Bulk Air in EMEA. This requires a change in Finance, Tax, Billing and pricing. SEC testing is tracking behind plan and SEC leadership is hesitant to add more scope. Hence, they have made the decision to take on Bulk Air implementation after SEC go-live in March/April 2026. This will significantly affect FY26 savings linked with Bulk Airfreight program, but implementation by April will keep FY27 on track. As Converse does not have SEC dependency, CBY can continue as planned. (SCO Flow - Transportation)

4. CODE x EBP E2E Process review & recommendation: Content presented on 6/18, and was well received! Began workshop prep for Blueprint recommendations workshop with LT Sponsor group [Supply Chain & Planning, Finance & Merchandising] on July 10th. Next Steps: SLT update mid July. (SCO SCI)

5. Fewer Better Materials: Kicked off FW Allocation Pilot with key stakeholders to test a new allocation cycle with T2 Leather vendors, targeting broader rollout with MOSA (sourcing tool) in Q2; AP team began execution aligned to Q1 goals, Q4 FBM newsletter is prepped for distribution to 800 stakeholders, and change impacts have been validated with FW teams for integration into broader plans. (SCO Capabilities, SCO SCI)

Weekly Updates 6.6.25

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:16:03 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

06.06.2025

1. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0:

EMEA: Program and Supply Chain status remain 'Yellow'�� due to delays in E2E testing completion. Supply Chain teams have executed over 3.8k testing variations in Cycle 2 with a pass rate of over 90%. Overall Variation + Scenario testing execution and pass rates are both exceeding Cycle 2 exit criteria. E2E testing will continue to be the primary focus for the remainder of Cycle 2.
GC + NA: GC Change Impact Assessments (CIA) are complete. NA CIAs are in progress and expected to be completed by June 27. GC + NA Testing is planned to start on 7/7 (Cycle 3 testing kickoff).

2. Transportation LLR [Long Lead Review] �� - Designed and introduced extending LLR to Transportation contracts with Geo operational leads. Positive alignment on principles, outcomes, and opportunity for spend optimization. Next: Present LLR brief and approach at June SC LT QBR; design all Geo event roadmaps through June-July and present an activation plan at July SC LT Workday

3. Project Baton - NA West Coast DC: officially a GO for Inbound Week In the Life (WIL) beginning Monday, 6/9! Also great x-functional team effort to get Stock Transfer Orders on the way this week. Watch out for these key dates: Inbound Operational Go-Live: 6/16, Outbound Production Deployment Complete: 6/22, and Outbound Operational Go-Live: 6/30.

4. Geo Inventory Availability (GIA):

Held deep dive session & landed approach to order, sales, and product flow insights, plus future ownership. Next Steer-co 17th June.
Customer Service Level) - This is expanding service insights at channel level during season execution. Team began work on CSL expansion for NA stores.
Train the trainer session office hours to start next week to inform PM engagement leads of new updates to GIA insights as we start training stakeholders on the metric.

5. Fewer Better Materials: Led workshops (FW & AP) to align Q1 objectives. Team identified scenarios based on resource constraints, risks, and tradeoffs, and presented to leadership. The Fewer Better Materials leadership team is now aligned on Q1 FBM Objectives and Deliverables . ��

Weekly Updates 5.30.25

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:21:23 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

05.30.2025

1. Inbound Transportation Mega-Bid: Origin Cargo Management face-to-face negotiations went extremely well; 77% of the book of business has been awarded and accepted (50% APLL and 27% K&N). Will result in $2M in cost reduction savings in FY26H2, and $12M in FY27. Next: Execute final RFQ round to award remaining 23% business

2. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA) Change Requests: Analysis + discussion is ongoing regarding timing of Nike By You Bulk Air Freight implementation for EMEA (NA remains on track for July go-live). Another key change request is for Digital Multi-Plant Orders to support shipment consolidation requirements. Various options are currently under review, and recommendations will be provided next week.
MANA Stabilization: Key NA Advance Shipment Notification (ASN) issue was resolved this week through the implementation of an SAP note. This issue was causing ~80% of the current ASN issues that are driving significant chargebacks, so very positive results are anticipated. NA change for Small Parcel Invoicing Process continues to be on track for July implementation with no open issues or risks.

3. Functional Development [LIFT Program]

Launch [Digital Learning]: Confirmed we will translate the first seven courses (Continuous Improvement, Systems Thinking, SRM) into nine prioritized languages (Vietnamese Korean, LatAm Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, French – languages prioritized by CSCO LT) expected delivery August 2025.
Ignite [Skills Sharing] reflection session: Positive post assessment results – from Coachees: 88% skill growth, 100% new relationships, 88% visibility to new part of SC, 100% recommend.

4. FY26 CSCO AOP Finalized: Community presentations and broad email comms complete on FY26 AOP outcome: Next steps:

Continue roadshow in partnership with Tech & Analytics
IDSA/DAI resource and priority alignment - targeting next stage of comms in ~60 days

5. Digital Twin - Inbound Module: Engagement with Quantum Black wrapped up this week. The Inbound Flow module is live and on-track to deliver

run-rate savings of $20M/year. This is part of an ecosystem of capabilities and enablers in inbound transportation (iTMS, Origin Max) that together will achieve ~$75M/year run-rate savings by FY26. The Inbound Digital Twin will scale through iterative pilots and integration with the iTMS. The team has already piloted container bypass and loading recommendations with 5 factories in Vietnam for product heading to GC. In addition, the Digital twin has already identified improvements to iTMS inputs (e.g., co-loading launch and non-launch for 1pp improvement in consolidator bypass), and we have the ability to run resiliency and strategic what-if scenarios.

Bonus

It seems we will dedicate this section to celebrate Angharad's athletic prowess. Please join us in cheering her on as she competes in the finals of the Nike Mile on JDI day. Women's race start time is 2:35 pm. Get there early for best viewing and coldest beverage.

SCO Huddle Recap 05.19.2025

Thu, 29 May 2025 19:28:55 GMT

Hey Team,

Thank you to everyone who joined our Q4 SCO Huddle! If you missed it or want to revisit the energy, you can catch the replay here .

We kicked things off by recognizing the incredible progress SCO has made in just one year with an inspiring & energizing video, created by our very own talented SCO team. There’s still a lot ahead—but what a journey it’s been so far. Our huddle covered important updates in three areas:

Consumer Perspective: Future-Forward with Nike Direct
Guest speaker Bryan Chang brought powerful insights into the evolution of the Nike Direct business—highlighting how reshaping assortments and elevating the consumer experience are fueling confidence in our growth trajectory.

Org Perspective: Strategy in Motion
Kelsey Markham gave us a first look at the evolving CSCO strategy, The Athlete Promise* and reminded us of what to expect next with AOP timelines. More details are coming soon—stay tuned.

Team Perspective: 1-Year SCO Reflections
A dynamic panel with Katie Crawford, Rajeev Aikkara, and Ashley Lykins sharing reflections from working with SCO for the last year, offering fresh perspective and momentum for what’s next. As Rajeev put it,"We can get sharper on value and saying no more, but never leave the best part, which is to continue being the most integrated, transparent team."

We’re proud of the progress we’ve made—but it’s your passion, creativity, and commitment that truly drive us forward. Thank you for being the difference that makes us stronger.

Best,

Weekly Updates 5.23.25

Tue, 27 May 2025 21:14:46 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

05.23.2025

1. US Tariff Update:

Treasury Secretary Bessent advised that the U.S. is holding bilateral negotiations with 18 priority countries. Bessent suggested that the U.S. would impose blanket tariff rates on certain regions instead of individualized rates. President Trump also suggested that the U.S. will reimpose tariff rates on certain countries and inform them without the opportunity for negotiation.
Vietnam held its second round of tariff negotiations with the U.S. May 20-22 led by their Minister of Industry and Trade.
Materials Sourcing: Team now has the necessary data to review all potential multi-source opportunities for FW and AP and are developing scenarios with the product engines.

2. Mexico First Mile: Port and terminal disruption continuing with Lazaro Cardenas APM terminal commencing construction and exacerbating slow throughput before going into peak season. Mexico team worked to shift future bookings through Manzanillo while working with terminal and carrier local teams to move more volume. Manzanillo customs brokers went on strike expected to last one week. last week Strikes: Last week custom brokers on strike for 1 week.

3. J30 Program: Moved from program Phase Gate 03 [Capability Design] to Phase 4 [Capability Development]. Congrats J30 team for advancing on time/right quality/within scope. Focus remains on Inventory Transition Strategy developed with cross-functional stakeholders.

4. The PSC Digital Twin ��: Delivered key simulations in support of the FW Strategic Sourcing team to create FY26 to FY30 options for manufactured country of origin (MCO) optimality. We created multi-objective optimizations to compare cost and a partner index score that evaluates location, resilience, and quality among other partner features.

5. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): Supply Chain is continuing to report an overall ‘yellow’ program status. Delays in completion of E2E testing continue to be the primary driver for the yellow status. Ongoing effort to prioritize remaining Cycle 2 testing. Mock 3 Master Data conversion activities kicked off last week in preparation for Cycle 3 testing which begins on 7/7. Overall, the program is reporting 96% to plan for completion of activities.

Bonus

JiWon Choi was the Winner of the 2025 Earth Month Global Plogging Challenge hosted by Nike Sustainability Community
Angharad Porteous for winning the Nike’s Spring Super Sprint Triathlon �� That’s an OVERALL win, across the Men’s & Women’s heat....beating 2nd place by over 2 minutes!

Weekly Updates 5.9.25

Tue, 13 May 2025 18:02:01 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

05.02.2025

1.Tariff Update:

Materials tariff working group determining impacts of retaliatory tariffs on materials from US to China. SCO, IDSA, PSC, Planning, Finance, GC Customs on point.
FW sourcing team is actively working with partners focused on key operational topics: active PO's, transfers, NBY and materials.
The US Trade Representative, Treasury and Commerce Departments are holding tariff negotiations. Vietnam, Japan, and South Korea as cited by the US as key priorities for negotiations.

2. SKIMS 2.0 : Project Manager assigned (Jeff Simons) and impact assessment underway focused on the following work-streams:

E2E Value Chain Testing (focus on SKIMS size grid expansion):

Quick testing cycle (SIT Method) to identify Blockers
Impact assessment to be completed on Blockers to inform level of effort and the ‘way forward'

S&IP / Factory PO (dependency on testing track above):

Initial PO (SP26) will need to be placed in the next few weeks

3. iTMS: ASN and Track & Trace is live in iTMS! CTP leg testing underway. Planning activities for FY26 new contract rates and carrier allocations load into iTMS. EMEA SEC iTMS cutover virtual workshop May 5-7th.
4. SC Intelligence [Network Optimization]: EMEA and NA teams presented update, including latest set of findings and opportunities across inbound flow.

In EMEA, the three key highlighted topics were presented: 1. Delays at origin - we have ruled out factory performance as a delay driver. 2. We have found that there is approximately 6% potential of increasing CY by allowing destination DC co-loading at origin. 3. First actions taken with JD account leadership to drive actions for upcoming seasons based on findings of opportunities identified in our analysis.
In NA, the key topics included: 1. Container Processing time at origin - marginal difference in CPT between “urgent” and “non-urgent” PO, STD volatility between OR and ASSD makes decision making challenging. 2. STD Volatility Root-Causing: STD volatility not caused by CRD changes but is primarily driven by dynamic demand supply allocation. 3. Loading Rules Simplification - Proposed plan to simplify current set of NA loading rules for iTMS implementation and physical pilot, there is room for improvement and team will work with iTMS and NA teams to align on requirements and timing. 4. Single PO Container Opportunity: single PO line containers currently flowing through the consolidator can be shifted to factory direct.

5. Sparck multi-unit auto-packing �� at Dash RSC: Finished Locus bot mapping, time scheduled with vendor to review prior to a push into PTE and Production systems. First SIT (System Integration Testing) scenarios completed on Thursday after completing environment refresh and tech resetting endpoints and systems connectivity. Reporting team has established a database connection to the Sparck machine and is logging events

Weekly Updates 5.2.25

Mon, 05 May 2025 22:35:03 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

05.02.2025

1.Tariff Update:

Materials tariff working group determining impacts of retaliatory tariffs on materials from US to China. SCO, IDSA, PSC, Planning, Finance, GC Customs on point.
FW sourcing team is actively working with partners focused on key operational topics: active PO's, transfers, NBY and materials.
The US Trade Representative, Treasury and Commerce Departments are holding tariff negotiations. Vietnam, Japan, and South Korea as cited by the US as key priorities for negotiations.

2. SKIMS 2.0 : Project Manager assigned (Jeff Simons) and impact assessment underway focused on the following work-streams:

E2E Value Chain Testing (focus on SKIMS size grid expansion):

Quick testing cycle (SIT Method) to identify Blockers
Impact assessment to be completed on Blockers to inform level of effort and the ‘way forward'

S&IP / Factory PO (dependency on testing track above):

Initial PO (SP26) will need to be placed in the next few weeks

In EMEA, the three key highlighted topics were presented: 1. Delays at origin - we have ruled out factory performance as a delay driver. 2. We have found that there is approximately 6% potential of increasing CY by allowing destination DC co-loading at origin. 3. First actions taken with JD account leadership to drive actions for upcoming seasons based on findings of opportunities identified in our analysis.
In NA, the key topics included: 1. Container Processing time at origin - marginal difference in CPT between “urgent” and “non-urgent” PO, STD volatility between OR and ASSD makes decision making challenging. 2. STD Volatility Root-Causing: STD volatility not caused by CRD changes but is primarily driven by dynamic demand supply allocation. 3. Loading Rules Simplification - Proposed plan to simplify current set of NA loading rules for iTMS implementation and physical pilot, there is room for improvement and team will work with iTMS and NA teams to align on requirements and timing. 4. Single PO Container Opportunity: single PO line containers currently flowing through the consolidator can be shifted to factory direct.

Weekly Updates 4.18.25

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:15:30 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

04.18.2025

Inbound Transportation Mega-Bid: Finalized contract awards for Ocean Freight, Inland Drayage, and Air Freight. Across Ocean + Inland, SCO and SC Procurement teams realized +0% rate increase v. FY25 �� Ocean Freight rates are -9% vs. contract rates in the market and -21% vs. spot rates.
Logistics Blueprint : 4/14 Manhattan Top-to-Top focused on our Logistics Blueprint ambitions and help needed from Manhattan. Most urgent is J30 contract unlock to enable collaboration and prevent delays, second is focus on Logistics Blueprint roadmap and related Manhattan-Nike collaboration type for rapid deployments and contractual terms for the mid to long term.
MANA Stabilization: Management of the remaining NA stabilization change requests has officially transitioned from Accenture to our Nike teams. Run Team is partnering with SCO/SCPT/GT to build an effective intake, prioritization, and communication process for new requests. Desired outcome is a single point of entry for geo contacts to leverage.
Geo Inventory Availability: Hosted monthly GIA forum focused on actions to impact HO25. & SP26. Team to support both new work streams for GIA mainly PFOT & CSOT views: Team is building a proof of concept of CSOT (Customer service on time) metric. This will be built into the next phase of the E2E dashboard. Conducted initial demo of CSL to E2E Analytics support team using our EMEA Pilot from March.
Launch First package of 12 course launches . Launched Lift.Nike.Com ! �� Obtained lots of positive feedback and excitement shared. Seeing leaders across the organization reinforce the program and offer space for leveraging the courses. First Movers presented LIFT at CSCO Global. SME kick-off for next set of courses. See activation plan HERE and course milestone plan HERE . Next Up : Continue course development per linked plan

`BONUS:`

SCO Culture - CSCO LT Summit Cascade & Leadership Journey Kick-off:
Positive feedback from 4/17 offsite; a good mixture of strategic content, visibility/engagement with CSCO Leadership, and community building across SCO (+ dotted line Functions). Thank you to our guest speakers!

Weekly Updates 4.11.25

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:17:01 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

04.11.2025

APLA imPACt DC: successful go live of PAC.com on 4/10, major milestone for Pacific marketplace unlocking local nike.com fulfillment with more market relevant product. After NVS and NMP this was the final channel to come alive at the new imPACt DC. Increased focus now required on stabilizing operations towards “project exit”. Central, GEO & Local Business & Tech teams collaborated this week at imPACt to align on ONE team offense towards operational excellence.
3PP Onboarding: GK Elite live and stable. SKIMS go-live on track for April 15. Hyperice EDI integration work successfully completed and moved into production. Vendor purchase orders for May and June demand have been created and successfully received by Hyperice. Lego NA EDI testing complete. NA and APLA production POs to be submitted 4/15.
Launch: Completed first 7 digital courses on SRM, Systems Thinking and Continuous Improvement; hosted 2 LIFT leadership activation sessions; held Zero100 Continuous Improvement session for First Movers; conducted after action review with EY to identify improvements needed for next phase of course development. Next up: LIFT site launch and announcement during 4/15 CSCO Connect.
US Tariff Update: Chaotic week of trade announcements and policy changes by President Trump resulting in wild market fluctuations. SLT daily updates in place. Key takeaways from this week:

4/9 Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for countries that did not retaliate. The pause will end on 7/9.
The 10% global baseline tariff will still apply to all countries except goods from Canada and Mexico qualifying for USMCA that will continue to receive duty free treatment. Goods in transit prior to midnight 4/5 will avoid the 10% tariff.
Low value shipments from China (<$800) sent through international carriers are subject to all applicable China duties starting 5/2. Affects NIKE by You and Converse by You.
Executive Order on port fees released - this order neither imposes new tariffs, nor implements the port fees on the docking of Chinese vessels that have been otherwise proposed, but suggests specific service fees at land ports.

5. First Mile: FY26 Ocean F2F meetings this week. FY26 Inland virtual F2F meetings this week. Final offers for Ocean and Inland FY26 RFPs are due on Monday, April 14th. working on final awards next week and financial review prep.

Weekly Updates 4.4.25

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:10:16 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

04.04.2025

Inbound Transportation Mega-Bid: Inbound and Procurement teams from around the �� will conduct Face-to-Face negotiations with the top 9 suppliers this week at Nike WHQ.
Digital Twin team is supporting UK Terrace design ramp up plans by simulating different PO divert scenarios to understand logistics cost, inventory and disposition tradeoffs.
Hyperice: Successfully completed EDI integration and moved into production on 4/2 and vendor purchase orders have been created.
Order Appointment Scheduling EMEA Stores : NSP adoption ramp up (all time high - 97%); Wave 2 of NVS & NSO Onboarding: 1) All trainings finalized 2) Focus shifting towards building up knowledge & confidence to plan through OAS for special cases 3) Ongoing discussions on how to plan for Clearance doors through OAS given bulk order creation.
Origin Max : Officially went live on April 1 marking the first time Nike pays consolidators directly instead of factory-paid, changing a practice that has been in place for over two decades.

Bonus [because I am sure you already know]...

US Tariff Update: On April 2, the US President announced new tariffs. Key points include:
Reciprocal tariffs will be implemented on specific countries starting April 9 at midnight. Key countries affected are Vietnam (46%), Indonesia (32%), China (34%), Cambodia (49%), and India (26%).
All goods not subject to reciprocal or special tariffs will incur a baseline 10% tariff effective April 5 at midnight.
The 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will remain unchanged. Goods qualifying under the USMCA will continue to receive duty-free treatment 3.
The President retains the authority to adjust tariff rates based on the actions of trading partners.
Potentially impactful port fees for operators with Chinese vessels (USTR 301) are pending the outcome of an investigation and comment period.
The de minimis threshold for China will be suspended on May 2, impacting NIKE by You and Converse by You.
A cross-functional project team is conducting impact analysis, communication, and executive-level engagement. An additional SLT forum led by SCO will commence the week of April 7.

Weekly Updates 3.21.25

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:53:54 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

03.21.2025

S/4 Upgrade: The decision to postpone the implementation of the upgrade for NA + GC from July 2025 to January 2026 was officially communicated. This new date aligns with our MA 3.0 EMEA Go-Live. There are multiple benefits of combining the implementations, including aligned testing + transition management efforts. Specific milestones have been identified to support the necessary replanning efforts.
Transportation Long Lead Review: All NA + APLA outbound transportation contracts have been consolidated in a central database that will drive the LLR scope. Conducted alignment conversations with EMEA SC + Procurement + Finance to ensure LLR scoping criteria are "fit-for-purpose" to create optionality where it drives meaningful impact.
Product Quality Research: Created project progress summary and findings summary + FW quality score survey analysis . Next Up: 1) Interview with Black and Decker quality director (March 24th), 2) Interview with Estee Lauder quality director - she used the Gartner survey to improve quality in Unilever (March 26th) 3) Build out concept for “Quality Insights to Action Team” experiment/pilot to connect currently “dead end” insights into a continuous flow to achieve insight-to-action ��
EMEA First Mile Lead Times: Actual Lead Times coming in at 64 days (versus target 59) caused by delays at key European ports (Rotterdam, Antwerp). Vessel delays, staff shortages, and strikes are causing operational disruptions and delays. Teams taking appropriate communication and mitigation actions.
GC RFID - to improve efficiency and prevent loss in GC supply chain network:

North DC RFID Solution: received the "Go" confirmation from GC Logistics and are on track to go live with OB scanning in mid-August.
Digital Consumer Order QR Sticker Replacement Solution: solution has been signed off by cross-functional teams, and tech development will begin next week.
Product Finder Order Paper Packing List Replacement Solution: solution has also been signed off by cross-functional teams, and tech development will commence next week.

SCO Huddle Recap 03.10.2025

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:46:56 GMT

Hey team,

I hope you're all having a great week. For those who joined us at last week's Global SCO Huddle - thank you for your energy and engagement! For those who couldn't make it, I wanted to share some fantastic highlights from our time together. Here's what got us excited:

Consumer Perspective: Women's Basketball

Guest speaker Dr. Chantal Tremitiere, Women's Sports Brand Marketing & former WNBA player, gave an inspiring update on Nike's newest Women's basketball product and connection to our consumers

Org Perspective: The Road to FY26 Priorities

We shared a progress update on how SCO is plugging in to Supply Chain's FY26-28 priorities. In short: we're already pushing work forward that aligns to Supply Chain priorities - keep up the good work, and more info to come as we complete the CSR process in May/June.

Team Perspective: Culture Network & LIFT

Our SCO Culture Network is well underway with activations all around the globe; love the way Alan Koelling put it, "It takes everyone to drive culture and connectivity through the things that matter to you."
Functional Development is growing quickly, with courses launching soon! Be on the lookout for announcements to access the trainings on Lift.nike.com in Q4.

Missed the live session? No worries - catch the recording below - it's worth the watch!

Keep crushing it!

Best,

Weekly Updates 3.14.25

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:26:45 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

03.14.2025

1. NA DASH RSC: 'Sparck' automated packing machine (multi-unit) completed factory acceptance testing at vendor site in Atlanta. Stress test and two run time tests were completed. Next step is machine to be moved to Dash site over the next two weeks.

2. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): Mock 2 ‘Go’ decision occurred on Monday 3/10 and transactional data loads were kicked off. Technical defects were identified during data loads, which necessitates weekend work for multiple SEC MSC team members to maintain the program schedule. Primary development risk continues to be related to Outbound ASN (expected completion 3/23).
Aligned on SEC intake process for new requests we will be leveraging the existing SCO/Tech intake process to ensure simplified experience for our stakeholders.
S/4 Upgrade: scope is now scheduled for Tuesday 3/18 , which will include a feasibility assessment of the current timeline. This is a highly impactful decision, which will directly impact multiple prioritization activities.

3. US Tariff Update:

US tariffs on Mexico and Canada continue to evolve almost daily and we expect legal challenges. Currently, all USMCA goods are excluded from the increased tariffs.
The public comment period ended March 11 for the US Administration's pending actions on “Reciprocal trade” imbalances . Nike’s trade associations submitted comments. We expect trade policy announcements on tariffs April 2.
The US proposal (via the “Section 301” US trade law provision) on port fees for operators with Chinese vessels continues to raise alarms within the business, shipping, and port sectors. Public comment period closes on March 24th.

4. Geo Inventory Availability: A unified narrative has been created on OUR opportunity to improve seasonal performance across the enterprise on the relay race from 'create' to making inventory available to our geo's. This will be shared across teams in the coming weeks.

Development on detailed customer delivery level in GEO. EMEA team's proof-of-concept has been shared with NA, APLA, & GC Performance Management leads & key stakeholders in the Geos. Next: Research what resources (e.g., data, people) are required to bring this to life consistently & quickly across remaining Geos (NA, APLA, & GC).

5. Fuel Program: participants selected, and program design and processes refreshed for Q1 launch. All applicants and people managers informed of selection decisions. Next Steps: Formal Offers 3/21 and then Fuel Class 1 will be announced.

Bonus:

SCO Q3 Huddle : Held the quarterly huddle with the 3 consistent focuses:
Consumer Perspective: Brand presentation on Women's Basketball by Dr. Chantal Tremitiere, former WNBA player
Org Perspective: Leveraging CSCO Summit content, team updated on focuses for coming years
Team Perspective: Powerful update from SCO Culture Network & closed out with LIFT update
+ for one time only an Ask Me Anything (AMA) Fair after the huddle

Weekly Updates 3.7.25

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:28:40 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

03.07.2025

1. Performance Management:

Significant strides in Pulse Scorecard development. The team constructed the backend data pipelines and tables essential for the Pulse scorecard and anticipates deploying and sharing the scorecard with Supply Chain leadership within the next week. This milestone marks a notable achievement, as it will be the first time we integrated Product Supply Chain (PSC) and Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) metrics into unified view , providing a comprehensive and holistic understanding of our supply chain operations
Enhancement to the Material on Time Performance (MOTP) dashboard, adding Lifecycle attributes that provide a comprehensive view of material performance across the entire lifecycle. This update includes critical attributes such as expiration dates, seasons, material state, and status, enabling the business to make more informed decisions and drive supply chain efficiency. This new visibility helps with reducing material waste and obsolescence costs, improving supply chain responsiveness, and increasing customer satisfaction through better material availability and quality.

2. SEC:

Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): Mock 2 - Blackout Start Go/No-Go Decision will occur on Monday 3/10. Primary risk is late development related to Outbound ASN (expected completion 3/31). This delay will impact ASN data egress. Assuming ‘go’ decision, Cycle 2 testing is scheduled to kick off the week of 3/30. Significant focus on testing variation (script) readiness for Type 1 (SAP) and Type 2 (Tech-aligned) functionality.
MANA Stabilization + New Intake: Freight Invoice Process Implementation timeline for NA configuration change proposed for July ’25 release (EMEA solution alignment still pending, based on Finance feedback). Began SEC Run team engagement on Project Baton, including initial assessment of level of effort. Will create/present a Change Request through SEC SGB next week to socialize cross-functional resource needs. Prioritization effort will likely be required.
S/4 Upgrade: Received confirmation today that scope impact discovery work remains on track to be completed on 3/14. SCPT + NA socialization sessions are scheduled for the following week.

3. LIFT Program [Fuel , former GLDP]: program design and processes are refreshed for Fy26 Q1 launch. Conducted 23 interviews for FUEL cohort selection. Updated advisor and rotation manager roles. Launched initial rotation design sessions and held working session to define curriculum approach Next Up: Inform cohort by 3/14 , Initial rotation designs submitted by 3/21.

4. US Tariffs: On March 4th the US Administration enacted another 10% tariff increase on China imports. This is on top of the recent 10% increase, totaling 20% new additional tariffs. The previously announced 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada is also now enacted. The US deminimis provision (allows duty free entry on low value NBY shipments) remains in place for now. The US tariff project team is working on daily updates to the steerco deck and supporting content for the relevant decisions to mitigate.

5. Product Quality research: Internal quality score survey results collected from Gartner survey; pending further analysis with Gartner and program leads (Isidro and Monica). External interviews completed (C&T Fashion, Kia, Diageo, GAP, Lululemon). Next Up: Working to frame white-paper and key hypothesis and recommendations for action.

SCO Narrative Series: Transportation

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:07:01 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: DSM Innovation & Enablement

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:06:48 GMT

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Weekly Updates 2.28.25

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:31:23 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

02.28.2025

3PP Onboarding: GK is now in production; Hypercare is monitoring for the first ASN/Invoice to ensure on-time receipt. Lego EDI setup and testing scheduled for March 10th.
The E2E Inventory Availability Forum celebrated its second successful session, bringing together leaders across SCO, DSM, PSC, MSC, and IDSA to provide a comprehensive view of marketplace delivery performance across upcoming seasons. The forum leverages Geo Availability as its KPI, supported by key planning and manufacturing metrics to drive accountability across the value chain all found within the E2E framework. Additionally, Supply Chain Analytics unveiled an innovative Sankey visualization that enables quick identification of supply chain bottlenecks and drill-down capability to PO-level details, making root cause analysis more intuitive and actionable for leaders. The success of these sessions has led to increased investment from SCO to enhance the E2E analytics capabilities as well as other Performance Management metrics.
MANA Stabilization/Freight Invoice Process: Work continues to finalize development + deployment timelines for NA Freight Invoice solution. An initial agreement has been reached with key EMEA stakeholders to leverage the same solution option as North America. An assessment is in progress to quantify the amount of re-work that will need to occur to support the updated EMEA design decision. Work is also ongoing to complete the deployment plan for other NA stabilization items. This coordination will be very important with the parallel path of the July S/4 upgrade.
US Tariff Updates: On 2/27/25, the US Administration announced another 10% tariffs on China origin imports that would be on top of the additional 10% that went into effect 2/4/25. This new tariff could be effective by Tuesday 3/4 of next week. The 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports (previously delayed) are also set to go into effect next week pending a last minute deal. The US Tariff Project team is performing the additional financial analysis, advocacy summary and prep for the Executive Steerco Deck for the next meeting 3/3/25. NA Customs team is now scheduled to provide monthly updates on new China tariff financial impact actuals.
Q4 PI Planning: We completed Q4 Planning and will be conducting readouts with the various communities over the coming week.
The convergence of several critical priorities over the next quarter will require us to prioritize focus of our teams, especially in the Trade & Transportation and Node & Distribution spaces.
Milestones occurring over the next 4 months are Australia On Platform (4/7), SEC EMEA Dev Complete/Cycle 2 Testing Start (3/31), Operation Baton (June/July), J30, iTMS, Bulk Air Freight.

SCO Narrative Series: Supply Chain Innovation

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Capabilities

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Procurement

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Weekly Updates 2.21.25

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:44:14 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

02.21.2025

Geo Inventory Availability Forum: Held second Geo Inventory Availability Forum with CSCO & DSM / SC LT members on 2/19 with a focus on:
Addition of APLA & GC
Order Book & Product Flow
Geo Inventory Availability target setting for HO25 (Newness: 95% | Overall: 90% | Carryover: 85%). Team is working hand-in-hand with IDSA on enhancements including being able to drill down on Style performance by season by Geo across Plan, Make, and Move.
NA 2 Day/ 4 Day Digital- IDSA+ NA Geo + SCO: �� Over the last 5 years, NASC has been on a journey scaling our multi-node distribution network and this past week we hit an new utilization milestone, where RSCs and SD1 fulfilled 75% of NA digital demand . By leveraging the RSCs and SD1, we were able to deliver 77% of our consumer orders within 4 days and 23% of our orders within 2 days . Key changes include allowing low-velocity SKUs to flow to RSCs in the Deployment Optimization engine and transitioning to a time-in-transit-based input in the Fulfillment Optimization Engines. We are also able to test the effect and value in our Digital Twin Engine before we launched these features.
Bulk Air Freight for NBY/CBY AOP Pull Forward: ✈️ RFP was launched this week heading towards and auction event the first week of March. Tech/Product is lining up LOEs depending on how the award scenario wraps up (incumbent, new player, split between air and ground, etc.)
Trade and Customs: US Tariffs - No new tariffs or US administration announcements this week impacting Nike. Project team completed proactive FY26 supply plan analysis on trade and duty impact in the event of new tariffs on US imports from Vietnam. The team continues to streamline internal Nike inquiries and unify separate tracks of work to connect to the core center project team. These efforts will ensure one source of truth, clear communication to stakeholders and minimize duplication of efforts.
Logistics Benchmarking: Global Procurement and SCO Flow kicked off a Levi's engagement in partnership with NA Logistics on alternative lease/tech/investment strategies. This strategy involves working with 3PL partners to migrate towards "asset light" on existing nodes which may vary in ownership on equipment, technology, lease, and labor. We plan to pull this thread to generate optionality in the April Long Leadtime Review (LLR) and beyond.

SCO Narrative Series: Supply Chain & Planning Technology (SCPT)

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Supply Chain Analytics

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Trade & Customs

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:00:00 GMT

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Weekly Updates 2.14.25

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:57:51 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

02.14.2025

J30 Program 'Flight Distribution Center': The technical design phase will not be finalized at the end of the month due to open questions on functional details and changing operating model between product and engineering. Get to green plan is to update the technical delivery plan based upon the current state and that reflects the operating model and reflects the identified value streams/value drops. There was extra focus on clarifying inbound requirements, Inventory messaging with WCS and returns. Preparing features, doing feature refinement to be ready for PI planning.
Project Victory - 'Brimley Distribution Center': Kudos to Team Victory incl. all SCO PM and NLS teammates involved with the obtained “GO” from all Sponsors for “VICTORY Phase Gate 4 of 6 – Brimley Shutdown”. Next Steps: The Project Team will move forward to complete all “in progress” items, shutdown Operations Friday 2/14, and continue to track towards an overall project go live (February 20, 2025). Next Phase Gate: Saturday February 15 at 4:00 pm EST. During this time, we will review inventory reconciliation and request a GO vote to start systemic conversion.
SEC: S/4 Upgrade: SAP resources initiated the impact assessment this week. MSC has completed ~55% of the line-item relevancy assessments. 31% have been deemed not relevant to Nike so far. 40 changes have been identified as ‘high’ or ‘medium’ impact. Teams will continue to research further next week. The target impact assessment completion timeline remains mid-March.
3PP Integration :
Hyperice: [NA]Completed NA SC LT kickoff and EDI integrations on track for May launch.
Lego: [Global] LEGO brick set style was migrated to NIKE. [North America] EDI enablement kick off. Onboarding questionnaire is complete, and NIKE EDI specification was shared with LEGO. Target Production Go-Live is planned for March 24th. [APLA] Core-team task tracker was shared with GEO cross functional team.
The Supply Planning Digital Twin Squad completed MVP Supply Planning Engine Optimization model for the Sandals Pre-Build pilot. In just 3 weeks of model development the MVP model is showing promising results across all 447 global sandal styles in terms of PIFOT improvement, cost savings and reduction in unplanned. The MVP approach includes product segmentation driving pre-build constraints and a multi-season capacity optimization model, as opposed to APO's single season heuristic model.

Bonus

Estee Lauder x Nike Team to Team: Hosted the Global Supply Chain Leadership team of Estee Lauder to do a deep dive on planning and technology capabilities. Lots of cross-functional similarities and learnings.

Weekly Updates 2.7.25

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:57:46 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

1.31.2025

1. J30-Flight DC: Technical Design for outbound planning completed on time at ELC aligned with Logistics Blueprint step stone. Next step is to complete rest of technical design by the end of February, with TMS design still ongoing W1 March. Coming up next:

• Feb 10th week: Inventory (+ return if possible)

• Feb 17th week: PI planning (+ return if possible)

• Mar 3rd week: TMS technical design

2. First Distribution Long Lead Review (LLR) pitch at CSCO LT Workday. The LT appreciated:

• The rigor put into this new cyclical process of pro-active Node strategic optionality reviews

• The x-functional approach and #oneteam presentation: SC Finance, SC Procurement, Distribution, Flow Optimization, GPS, GEO LT/SME's

3. SEC:

• MANA Stabilization/Freight Invoice Process: Recommended NA solution options were presented this week. The recommendation includes

getting freight accruals outside of SAP, which will require an alternate process to support. Controlling is doing proof of concept on Monday to validate the alternate process. Also, a review was requested with SEC Trade & Transportation team members, as the recommendation

significantly deviates from current SEC solution design. EMEA impact and recommendation is still pending. Overall timeline to be developed next week pending any additional findings.

• S/4 Upgrade: Approval was received to hire three SAP resources to assist with the impact assessment. The goal is to have them onboard within

2 weeks, with a target impact assessment completion date of mid-March.

4. International Fulfillment at Scale aka. Bulk Air NBY/CBY project for FY25 approved for prioritization.✅ Kick-off meetings with key stakeholders underway.

5. US Tariff: As expected on 2/1/25, the US Administration issued new tariffs adding 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% on China. The Mexico and Canada tariffs were quickly delayed until 3/4/25, however, the China tariffs went into effect 2/4/25. The de minimis duty free exemption on low value goods from China was also suspended. The Nike Tariff project team continues the activation of core and working groups for effective communications, analysis and escalation. Specific focus this past week on:

• Immediate prioritization of an SLT update to executives 2/2/25

• In partnership with IDSA, identifying US financial impact for inline imports from China, China origin NBY and Mexico apparel sourcing for the remainder of FY25 and FY26.

• Internal and external communications to partners

• US import operations changes and impact

• Please reach out to Neal or Aimee for any escalations or questions coming from the business. They are coordinating a central offense on behalf

of Inc.

SCO Narrative Series: Performance Management

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:56:56 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Strategic Enterprise Capabilities (SEC)

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:56:54 GMT

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SCO Narrative Series: Distribution & Nike Logistics System

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:56:52 GMT

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Weekly Updates 1.31.25

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:17:17 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

1.31.2025

1.CSR Gate 2/AOP:

We have completed the review of AOP with Supply Chain and Planning with the respective senior leadership groups. We will be working to increase the fidelity of priorities identified for FY26 (scope, impact, estimates) as we prepare for Enterprise Prioritization. ��

Next steps:

Storyline/recap to be sent to SCLT on 2/3; and shared with all three Communities on 2/4-2/5
Squad is being assembled for each of the prioritized initiatives inclusive of a Sponsor, Business Lead, Tech/Analytics Lead, and Finance Lead
Targeting initiative deep dives to be completed by 2/14 to feed downstream AOP processes (e.g. Enterprise Prioritization)

2. SEC Marketplace Activation 3.0 (EMEA): Solution Design Completion is now 100%! Multiple Change Requests are being analyzed for criticality and scoping feasibility (including active alignment with Tech Aligned teams). Cycle 1 testing is ongoing, with a current pass rate of 81% for executed variations.

3. NA Running Specialty Group (RSG) Workshop: Participated in workshop to shape the future of order planning for RSG to improve performance in on time deliveries, applying proven Shikumi methodology.

4. LIFT ��

Launch: Engaged LIFT first movers to beta test first course (Continuous Improvement).
Ignite : At least 15 Skill Shares underway. Coaches/Coachees completed pre-assessments and finalized Skill Share Designs Next Up : Present Ignite and nomination process to BHR Leads

5. Product Supply Chain Digital Twin team ran Apparel long-range network optimizations as part of the annual Long Range Capacity Process (LRCP). Compared to the previous model, digital twin's LRCP is projected to save ~$118m over FY27 and FY28 through savings in labor and trade. To help communicate the results at granular levels, the PSC digital twin team also has created an LRCP-focused dashboard that assesses individual factory and partner loading at a Classification, PPG, and Gender level. Many cross-functional teams connected to sourcing (CFOP Sourcing, Product Operations, GLAM, etc.) can view this dashboard to understand where we are strategically moving forward. ��

Bonus ��‍��

Held a one day session between SCO & Tech Leadership teams on 'Intent-based Leadership', based on the book Leadership is Language. Session helped drive deeper integration, commitment & shared language.

Weekly Updates 1.24.25

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:27:32 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

1.24.2025

CSR Gate 2 [formally AOP]:
MSC, PSC/Sustainability, and Logistics Community workshops are complete
Communities have aligned Strategic Imperatives, and force ranked initiatives within each imperative bucket
Next steps:
Prioritized initiative deep dives are underway to improve validate value cases, costs, level of effort, etc.
1/29: x-Community prioritization meeting with the SCLT to ensure alignment and force-rank (where necessary)
Mid-February: aligned SCLT priorities to support the Nike, Inc. Enterprise Prioritization process
MANA Stabilization/Freight Audit & Pay: Ongoing progress from the teams in meeting target milestone dates for solution planning. Working session scheduled for 1/28 to finalize option(s). Great partnership with the Engineering team this week to quickly build a utility tool to address error handling more efficiently. This will help to reduce the overall resolution time on select issues until a permanent solution is implemented.
Origin MAX : Workshop conducted with GC with potential opportunities identified to increase CY load and drive cost savings for Nike China. Focus will be on Vietnam origin and reviewing existing SOP to identify loading rules adjustments.
EMEA MSC process support: NLS team supporting MSC with mapping AS IS & TO BE processes with the intention to define, document, train and sustain their standard work in a more centralized execution model as part of the MSC Transition Program.
Distribution Phase-Gate kick-off: stakeholders representing SCO, Tech, GEO/Programs as a tracking, learning and help chain forum to increase value drop quality and ensure programs are tracking to timelines and approved AR's . First iteration focused on J30 and The Terrace. J30 tracking yellow with get to green actions by end Feb �� (tech timelines), and The Terrace tracking green ��.

Bonus

LIFT KICK-OFF:

Presented overview of LIFT at the CSCO Global Connect: sharing LIFT video and launching first mover survey. See below comments from post webinar survey. We have officially taken flight! �� Check out LIFT website !
Reviewed Fuel [formally GLDP] program design with CSCO LT and HRBP's; launched nomination process through CSCO LT nomination pool list. Design changes received well. Next Up: Each CSCO LT member in partnership with their HRBP will begin their nomination process and submit by 2/7. Cohort 1 will start first rotation in June 2025.

Weekly Updates 1.17.25

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:32:02 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

1.17.2025

CSR Gate 2, aka AOP:
Marketplace Supply Chain Community came together and landed the Global MSC FY26 Strategic Imperatives, and force ranked outcomes/initiatives within each Imperative 'bucket' (aligned across Geos, SCO, SCPT, and IDSA); learnings and framework to be used/applied across all Communities
PSC/Sustainability and Logistics Community sessions to be held the week of 1/20
X-Community prioritization meeting with the SCLT on 1/29
Global Inventory Platform [GIP] was rolled out to Greater China on the 1/13 (Migration started on 1/9). GIP is an In-House Promising Platform which will be replacing the IBM Sterling based Promising Platform (North America, Japan and Korea are already on this platform). The platform improves the scalability and responsiveness of capabilities across Availability, Reservation, and Digital Order Sourcing
J30 Program : decision made to use BlueYonder as the outbound transportation solution for J30 instead of custom development.
SEC Program Update
EMEA Solution Design Completion: (87% complete vs planned 97% FD complete. 156 complete vs 159 planned (Type 1) 36 complete vs 54 planned (Type2) Extensive focus on completing lagging solution design decisions for Turkey/Israel. Continued partnership with EMEA on opportunities to simplify solution.
S/4 Upgrades NA & GC: Ongoing discussion regarding timing/scope/feasibility of planned July ’25 S/4 upgrade for NA + GC. Awaiting needed clarity on scope + business impact, including resource implications to Jan ’26 EMEA go-live.
MANA Stabilization: Continued focus and partnership with NA on stabilization issues. Most critical topic continues to be Freight Audit & Pay challenges. Solution analysis is ongoing and planned to be brought back to SGB [Strategic Governance Board] by EOM.
US Tariff: Project team is planning for the trade related Executive Orders that may be issued next week starting 1/20 under the Trump US Presidential Administration. Team will be ready to assess immediate potential financial impact based on FY24 trade data, current sourcing plans for FY25 and beyond as well as Nike government affairs implication analysis. Next Tariff Executive Steerco 1/24/25.

Reinventing the First Mile

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:02:29 GMT

Zero100 sees the future of global operations and supply chain as a connected, circular, tech-enabled, and people-powered Loop. The first mile is about sourcing and its connections upstream to virgin and regenerated materials as well as downstream to customer demand.

Weekly Updates 12.9.24

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:43:47 GMT

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12.9.2024

Fulfillment Optimization, o ver the 4 days of Black Friday to Cyber Monday processed 1.9M distinct orders and 4.2M units in NA and processed 939K distinct orders and 1.7M units in EMEA. During this time, we saw a peak of 920 requests per minute in NA and 490 requests per minute in EMEA. In NA, FO was used to strategically balance network capacity and minimize lead times to consumers as backlogs grew at various nodes. FO also sourced 152k units of slow moving inventory via Ship from Store in NA.
CSR FY26-28 - Final push for CSR/3 Year Plan discussion for SCLT 12/9 workday Next Steps: SCLT Workday alignment and summary of themes across functions to finalize for FY26 AOP.
EMEA Store Flow Insights Solution (SFIS) go-live this week! SFIS is a Store-focused cross-functional operating model driven by an insight solution, enabling proactive actions on flow constraints to ensure a more seamless order flow to stores. Dry run in December, pilot with group of accounts in January followed by scaling based on the learnings.
�� Project Victory (Brimley DC - process retrofit & WMoS2019 implementation) status yellow �� due to risk in permitting and backlog in Process work-stream. Process work-stream needs focus from GEO Ops + SCO Center & Local SLT to align way of working & scope to safeguard team health and successful go live & ramp up.
Tech required to operate capacity: completed first Product Management wide detailed RTO review with the goal of reducing our overall RTO run rate for each domain by 5-10% to create capacity for new Build work.

2 X Bonus:

Holiday 24! Thank you to all the teams around the �� executing Holiday! I shared some pictures this week from my NA travels, but will leave you with this awesome movie from EMEA!
Elliott Hill and the SLT were in GC this week. Grayson Tenney & Emma.Zhou hanging out with their new team mate.

AI Fundamentals | Functional Development

Danielle.Roegner@nike.com (Danielle Roegner) — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:35:31 GMT

Our Functional Development strategy LIFT is offering resources and experiences to support learning in core digital, business, and functional skills. Catch a replay of an AI Fundamentals session for outside-in perspective on how the technology is being used to drive value in Supply Chain. Additionally, you can access the deck here .

Weekly Updates 11.13.24

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:29:35 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

11.13.2024

Functional Development Strategy [LIFT] – Held working sessions with advisory board to discuss Fast Forward [GLDP 2.0] program design. Aim is to be locked by end of calendar. Broader comms on Functional development plan planned before end of year.
Inventory Deployment Optimization [NA]. Connect Regional Service Center hit an in-region demand coverage high of 69% (vs target of 45-50%) and Digital share of business trend for all RSCs [Relay, Connect, Dash] has increased to 45% (vs target of 34-36%).
iTMS [Transportation Management System] : Rollout 7 completed, Nike EMEA inbound volume is now 99% being managed by the TMS and is on-track for 100% completion per our OKR by end of Q2! Party is being planned for when scaling is complete.
Supply Chain at Board of Directors : Supply Chain Innovation team working hard to prepare for the Board of Directors update next week on Supply Chain progress and our �� future! ��
Trade & Customs : The US presidential election this week activated Nike’s Trade & Customs preparations for new US import tariff scenarios and shifts in trade relations. Collaborating closely with GPA, NA Geo and Legal to respond to Nike impact inquiries. In the coming months there will be sharp focus by a cross functional team to advance mitigation plans and ensure clear aligned communications. Here is a good read from trade policy advisors.

Bonus: This week we held the Q2 SCO Huddle with the theme of 'GRIT' in which we focused on Consumer, Team growth and spot-lighting parts of the organization. Highlight was hearing from Mark Lau who leads the global Nike EKIN network, making it real on how we are activating the ground-game.

SCO Huddle Recap 11.06.2024

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:27:35 GMT

Consumer Perspective

Mark Lau, Director of EKIN & Heritage, shared how EKINs are igniting the ground game for Nike. His words still echo: "Consider yourself no longer uninformed!"

Team Perspective

We got a sneak peek into our exciting new Functional Development program, LIFT, and our leadership team's commitment to addressing your top concerns: Where are we headed? How can I feel a sense of belonging? How can I grow and develop? & Re-installing trust in senior leaders

Org Perspective

Our new Product Management leader, Dirk Reckerman, shared his vision for accelerating technology into our Supply Chain. His enthusiasm is contagious, and I'm excited to see the impact we'll make together!

Thanks for making our Q2 SCO Huddle an unforgettable experience. I'm already counting down the days until we connect again in Q3.

Best,

Weekly Updates 11.4.24

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:43:16 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

11.04.2024

J30 Program building Flight Distribution Center [Japan] : 2 weeks of Detailed Design wrapped up in Tokyo. Great local, center and x-functional teaming demonstrated working towards a common goal of Logistics Blueprint standards across process design, automation integration, products (systems) & architecture. To quote Yoshi-san: “Discussion content, processes, and deliverables looked like masterpieces by a dream team.” ��
Operational Forecasting and Capacity Planning: Kicked off weekly SCOPE and NAOMI [acronyms for current in-use operational tools that needed hyper-care after re-org] stand up meetings with NA and IDSA teams to ensure HO24 readiness.
Portfolio & Intake views published to SCO website in order to reach broader stakeholder audience & create transparency across enterprise.
Country Store Pacific [aka local Nike.com fulfillment]: Digital E2E testing commenced and first E2E B2C order was executed at imPACt and delivered via AusPost��
GEO-based Inventory Availability Split: We deployed a change to split the Inventory Availability feed by Geo on 10/24. This addresses the oversell scenario during Launch-to-Buy transition where a high volume of inventory data (millions of records) was simultaneously being streamed by SAP CAR to the Enterprise Inventory Platform “EIP”. This “surge” caused delays in data processing which subsequently resulted in inventory availability feeds for digital channels becoming inaccurate. With this fix, an accurate availability picture is made available for digital flows thereby providing a seamless buy experience to our consumers and thereby avoiding order cancellations.

Bonus: Zero100 Live Conference : X-functional team attended Zero100 Live Conference in San Diego from 10/20-10/22. Theme of conference was "Supply Chain AI Unleashed". Co-authored (by SCO attendees) recap .

Weekly Updates 10.22.24

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:30:42 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.22.2024

ImPACt phase 2 (Australia DC) went live on 10/15. The team is working on stabilization efforts, including NLS foundations 1.0, and continue to track towards plan. Celebrations were held in Australia and WHQ including Elliot Hill stopping by Dan Fouts (unplanned) and trying some TimTams (Australian cookies��). Elliot got an impromptu download of Program Oxygen.
Nike By You switched from DHL to Baozun for China shipments, with the change going live this week. This is the first carrier change for NBY in 24 years. Using Baozun is more sustainable as they ship ground vs by air without compromising delivery lead time. This additional volume given to Baozun will benefit the upcoming carrier negotiation for China digital orders
September Consumer Promise [Performance Management]: Consolidated view of CPR metrics for Marketplace, Product, & Sustainability distributed across the E2E Supply Chain.
Marketplace Supply Chain Community Workshop Recap: This week, team members came together across SCO, Tech, Analytics, and Geo MSC to 1) continue to build the MSC Community, 2) listen to Functional/Commercial leaders around us that impact our Strategy, 3) get into the 'work' - specifically Operational Forecasting and Inventory Deployment.
Holiday Readiness – Game-day fault tolerance testing: Successful completion of Promising Options and Optimized Sourcing service testing (simulated for multiple high volume and forced failure scenarios). One Issue identified (and fixed) as part of this testing.
Bonus: New SC Capabilities Team Member❤️: Baby girl Penelope Pierce (Will Pierce's daughter) joined us this past weekend on 10/12. Baby and mom are doing well!!

Weekly Updates 10.14.24

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:20:32 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.14.2024

Active WMS for J30 [Japan DC]: Successful visit from the J30 program team to the ELC in light of Active WM. Focus on Cortez [Footwear DC retro-fit] design, hands on processing and returns activities, insights in architecture, NAS, reporting and lessons learned. Update on J30 program. Cross functional LT OKR session with NLS, Distribution, SCPT and Transportation Capabilities discussed scope and objective of a process/automation & tech platform blueprint.
Materials Transformation initiative: x-functional SCO teammates (SC Capabilities & NLS) completed current state business process mapping leveraging the Shikumi methodology for both footwear and apparel, focused on Innovate/Design, Create, and Make. Socialization of outcomes with full team completed and initial pain points identified (growing root cause problem solving muscle ��).
Portfolio & Intake Single Source of Truth: v3 SC Investment Portfolio and SC Intake dashboards are live. These are live for your use and visibility, so please do so, and share accordingly. Next: (1) Reconcile with SC Capabilities Portfolio (2) publish views to SCO website for expanded SC visibility.
SEC EMEA travelers were in WHQ this week for the Solution Summit where the end-to-end solution is presented; EHQ session planned for the week of 10/21. Teams are tracking slightly behind on EMEA detailed design deliverables due to ongoing MANA support (Trade & Transportation especially); get to green plans in place.
Origin MAX (Geo Paid Consolidation): Green light �� from Finance ELT to move forward. The requires manual journal entries for attributing logistics costs back to inventory, but the intent is to help do this "systematically" via data from the Consolidators. The path to Nike system integration will be via iTMS once fully scaled to capture 5 legs of logistics cost (Factory Trucking, Consolidation, Consolidator to Port Trucking, Ocean Freight, and Inland Freight). This put us on track for an APRIL go-live where Geos will begin paying Consolidation, unlocking Nike's ability to optimize how we use origin consolidation only where needed.

Weekly Updates 10.07.24

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:22:44 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.07.2024

NA First Mile: The East Coast Strike has been put on pause for 90 days to resolve automation negotiations, port union members are returning to work. Approximately 300 containers representing $100M in product affected by the slow down, however we are pivoting quickly to recovery mode with plenty of time till quarter close to stabilize.
SEC MANA: We continue to partner with SEC and NA teams to address open Incident and Error Handling Logs. Distribution and Trade & Transportation teams most impacted (triaging and incident resolution). We are pursuing additional opportunities to help the NA business navigate the transition.
Functional Development Launched first “outside-in” development opportunity for SC leaders to gain external perspective on key trends in Supply Chain. We led an AI Masterclass to pilot outside in development through hands on experience. (see an AI generated pickleball shoe created by Kristen Hanson and team)
MSC Community - Intake: Operational Forecasting ( #1 Win Now Priority ) approved and resourced across SCO, Analytics, and Analytics Product with no resource/prioritization tradeoffs required; Next step(s): Program charter, structure, squad, etc. being assembled.
Oxygen [Australia]: We are on track for 10/15 go-live. The production deployment completed on-time and Smoke Testing started 10/2. Issues uncovered during testing required additional validation. There are 11 incidents open and actively being worked. However first delivery was initiated to a Nike retail door

Weekly Updates 10.02.24

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:21:37 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

10.02.2024

Goal Setting Framework: FY25 Objectives & Q2 Key Results for all SCO teams published on SCO website ). Next: Create v1 mechanism for SCO teams to measure Q2 Key Results in a consistent way.
The Supply Planning SimLab [Supply Chain Digital Twin] team drove adoption of their FA25 recommendations! The team was asked to investigate reducing SU25 unplanned by using dynamic intra-season Build Late defaults. Planning partners approved initial results, so this process will be used for setting Build Late defaults for FA25. The reduction in unplanned has the potential to drive $5M in EBIT, but measurement is required post FA25 to bank this.
iTMS EMEA: We exited ocean planning hyper care for China (Rollout 6) one week early, now handling 92.8% of EMEA ocean flow and planning in iTMS, excluding distributor model.
East Coast United States Strike: The East Coast of the United States from Maine to Louisiana has gone on strike effective midnight Tuesday for the first time in over 40 years. This represents a massive risk to the national economy, as well as the 23% of containers and 30% of units Nike imports through that coast. Daily SWAT calls, dashboards, and off-dock trucking solutions established in advance of this event.
Big Billion Day (BBD): The Nike Partner Exchange (NPX) and supporting domain services have been scaled to support the Big Billion Day (BBD) event for Flipkart and Myntra that is under way concluding on 10/6.

BONUS:

The Supply Chain Leadership team were in EMEA last week preparing for CSR and meeting with the local teams to celebrate 25 years of EMEA being in EHQ and 30 years of the ELC [European Logistics Campus]. Incredible energy spending time with the teams as they go into activation in the following weeks. A lot of smiles ��

Weekly Updates 09.23.24

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:23:44 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

09.23.2024

J30 [Japan DC]: Core team aligned on utilizing Active Warehouse Management vs Manhattan 19 and deferring TMS decision for Steerco on 9/17. J30 program, Tech and NLS team preparing for AWM template validation and Detailed Design phase. ��
Functional Development: Strong support from Supply Chain leadership team on approach to functional training across our value chain. The proposal will offer 4 key platforms centered around 15 defined functional skills the industry has identified as essential skills for the future value chain leaders in our Supply Chain. More to come at the next SC Connect and SCO Huddle. ��
Performance Management: Initial focus is to roll-out E2E delivery work focused on Supply ASAP with PSC teams & re-establish 'Service' forums in MSC. Additionally accelerated sprints to create the right granularity for Quality metrics in PSC. ��
First Mile SRM: Ocean freight top-2-tops this week with Maersk (33% of Nike's biz), Mediterranean Shipping Co (9%) and Hapag-Lloyd (5%) - focused on each company's top-line strategy during unpredictable environment & market volatility, key product differentiators, and Jaggaer-based approach to mega-RFP across Ocean/Drayage. Next: Meet CMA-CGM (23% of Nike's biz) next week; trip recap in next week's update. ��
Digital Fulfillment Audit: Three tracks of work have kicked off across 1) System/Data Flow, 2) Observability/Monitoring, and 3) Testing Coverage / Deployment Validation. Key learnings so far include:

There have been 160 S1/S2 incidents affecting Digital Fulfillment over the last 12 months (globally) with a mean-time-to-detect of 4.9 days and resolution time of 6.2 days.
Only 20% of these issues were identified systematically. The rest identified via users or consumers.
There are opportunities to increase the collaboration with the Integrated Quality Engineering in domain-level AOP and PI planning processes to plan and allocate capacity for supporting delivery impacting digital fulfillment beyond the larger AOP initiatives.

Bonus:

This week we communicated several team mates rolling off the SEC program moving into new roles within SCO, as well as some team mates joining us from other Geos who have also been on the program. [1] Firstly THANK YOU for everything you have done in ensuring a successful deployment on MANA �� & [2] secondly congratulations on your new roles & for some, welcome to SCO!

Weekly Updates 09.16.24

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:13:39 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

09.16.2024

Origin Operations: The annual OCM fiscal year kickoff was hosted in Singapore for all 3 Origin Consolidations service providers (KN, APLL, and Maersk). This is a unique forum where the rival companies are in the same room, Nike shares the expectations and plans for the fiscal year (big topics in FY25 with OCM27 RFP kicking off and Origin Max going live), and we present the OCM of the year award. This is a trophy designed by Tinker Hatfield that rotates, the winner gets the company name and year engraved on the base (think Stanley Cup). The FY24 winner was APL Logistics - check it out here .��
New Intake: We will be kicking off the cross-functional (SCO, SCPT, Analytics) review of requests for work in Supply Chain next week. We will create transparency into the requests and disposition of the requests against our current work during the SC Community Meetings.
Dynamic Product Program/ 3PP: Received Product Management support to conduct initial discovery on fixing key issues within FlipKart/Myntra (Amazon of India). The issue is specifically related to order cancellation by Nike that is automatically decreasing Nike’s seller rater from 4.5/ 5 starts to 3.9/5 stars. Finding a way to improve cancellation with the DC logic will alleviate lost revenue. �� ‍♀️
The MSC SimLab Squad [Supply Chain Digital Twin] has created a new simulation module named 'Simple FO [Fulfillment Optimization]' that uses a Greedy Algorithm to fulfill digital orders. Running SimpleFO allows users to run simulations much quicker, which helps high-level scenarios that need to be quickly evaluated with less accuracy, such as network design problems. Moreover, it provides modelers a safe environment to test out various fulfillment hypothesis without modifying the production version. For a 6 month simulation horizon, the SimpleFO algorithm can reduce run time by 57%. Find out more here .
NLS = performance improvements across GEO node footprint: EMEA Court DC 57% uplift loading KPI; EMEA Blue Ribbon DC great progress on road from 14h to 9h lead time driven by NLS Human System implementation (no process/infrastructure changes); APLA Dunk DC 14% cycle time reduction increasing processing capacity in peak. ��

Weekly Updates 09.09.24

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:46:17 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

09.09.2024

SC FY26-28 Strategic Plan: SCI working sessions across all 4 Geos & Product SC functions to start to frame strategic priorities against the CSR Brief. Next: By next Thu, 9/12, 6-page CSR update will be locked and aligned across teams and first drafts will be pitched in EMEA 9/22.

Portfolio Management: Onboarded new Director of Portfolio Management - Caitlin Kimball. Next: By EOD 9/13: (a) v1 view of current Supply Chain Investment Portfolio, and (b) Intake line items, from Business Continuity workshop, sent to SCI for triage. ��

CMA CGM e-Barge: Post GSC and CPMO approval, Nike legal is drafting an SOW for the e-barge targeting next week to share with internal stakeholders. CMA CGM has already begun the build work and are not waiting on the contract, initial timeline for construction was 2 years (Summer of 2026) but now could be as early as January 2026. ⛴️

NALC strategy session led aligned NA NLS with NALC OKRs , and the role NLS will play to support the advancement of NALC's performance. Great example of a qualitative strategy deployment process and x-functional collaboration to focus with NLS on performance driven impact. ��

J30: We are finalizing the evaluation of Manhattan Active for use at J30 [Japan DC] �� The next step is to evaluate our Transportation Management, Budget, and Timeline implications.

Research Spotlight | DHL Logistics Trend Radar

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:10:30 GMT

The DHL Logistics Trend Radar is an invaluable strategic resource for our customers and the logistics community. It consolidates key logistics trends, with AI and sustainability taking the lead in this edition, driving the evolution of businesses, consumers, and technologies over the next decade. This empowers our customers and us to stay competitive in a demanding landscape.

Weekly Updates 08.30.24

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:23:30 GMT

Five Things to Know This Week

8.30.2024

Launched SCO Op Model: If you can hang out with us for the next six minutes and watch the short video , you will find more. If you stay until the very end, we might even make you laugh ��

Nike selected by Maersk to be the Name Giving company for the first ever green methanol vessel to call the United States. The visit included speeches by Venky, Vincent Clerc [CEO Maersk], a member of US Congress, and the god-mother of the vessel US Olympic Gold Medalist Chloe Kim ��. Great opportunity to strengthen our partnership while lending the power of the Swoosh to a noble decarbonization cause. See Neal's LinkedIn Post .

iTMS EMEA: OCM scaling trending positively for Rollout 6 and 7. Origin concerned over scaling for carrier messaging due to current defects and expecting update from product on potential resolution by next week. Group is on track for scaling plan to hit 100% by end of Q2.

Oxygen UAT [Australia Node] ��. We are making progress toward final UAT and cutover. Get to green plans in progress across all workstreams with focus on upcoming milestones including cutover period, pack & hold and remaining Fast follow MVP Oxygen scope. Final UAT plan reworked to account for unplanned testing disruption in MAWM. The TMS (BlueYonder) production environment has provisions for upcoming cutover. UAT Go/No-Go is planned for 9/6.

Supply Chain FY26-28 Strategic Plan: �� Initial briefs shared with Product SC and Geo SC leaders. Ask to come up with initial reaction/positioning on CSR functional strategies to be shared and collaborated on in 3 weeks from now. SCI & Strategy teams leading the process with the business teams.

SCO Operating Model

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:07:50 GMT

Many of you are asking: “What is the SCO Operating Model?” “How will intake work?”

Well, we have some answers for you! Watch the short video below, which will give you context to how this all will work and what is coming next. If you stay til the very end, we might even make you laugh.

Have more questions? Check out the FAQ here .

SCO Huddle Recap 08.01.2024

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:48:54 GMT

I know that right now we still haven't answered a lot of your questions, and we're doubling down on getting to clarity the week after Wellness Week in order to give you more answers as soon as possible. Your leaders are working to define the following:

Intake Process & Work Prioritization - will be communicated by 8/30 via functional team meeting.
Operating Model - will be communicated by 8/30 via functional team meeting
Goal-setting & OKRs:

Initial Goals - to be submitted in Workday by every teammate by 8/9 - work with your direct manager on these, and know they are editable. Progress over perfection.
OKRs Framework - will be rolled out by 8/30 within your function
OKRs Finalized - by 9/23 within your function
Workday Goals Adjusted - work with your manager to edit according to OKRs as needed by 9/30
Individual Development Plan (IDP) - your manager will work with you to complete by 9/30

Lastly, you can find our new SCO branding, a deck template, and other resources here . I’m so excited for the fresh new look to give us some energy and

unify SCO as one team working toward the same goals.

As Prime said in our intro video, “You gotta run dreams down” - which is exactly what we have planned over the next few months, and I for one am excited for it all to come together, and to be on this journey with all of you.

Best,

SCO Huddle Recap 05.02.2024

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:44:30 GMT

Hi SCO Team,

I want to start with a heartfelt thank you to every single one of you. The last few months have been challenging and you have experienced uncertainty around your futures. We have had to say goodbye to colleagues that were fixtures of our Nike community and in many cases our friends beyond Nike. You have been handed new roles and are joining new teams. I imagine many of you are looking inward and asking if this next chapter of Nike is something you want to be a part of.

If you were unable to join the kickoff Huddle, please take a moment and watch the recording to learn more about the context of our key org shifts, a high-level intro to our new org, and a roadmap of what to expect in the coming weeks.

In this folder you will also find additional information that should help deepen your understanding of SCO:

Full SCO Org Chart
SCO Team Descriptions
Full Huddle Deck

Lastly, I know you all have many questions. Please submit them here and we will be getting an FAQ out as soon as possible to transparently give as much info as we can to help move us forward together.

Thank you all, I’m excited to be on this team with you and for the work ahead of us.

Weekly Updates 2.27.24

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:58:52 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Future of Sourcing Research: Started articulating what Sourcing is and is not at Nike and other companies in v5 draft . Next: Share v5 with VP APAC PSC 2/29; kick off a maturity assessment of Nike Sourcing capabilities vs peer group leveraging Gartner methodology.
NMS Proliferate | Inter-Partner Incentives: Held initial NMS knowledge sharing session with AP M&E w/ focus on factors that successfully drive proliferation among AP Partners; achieved x-functional (full KR team) alignment on 1-N list of inter-Partner proliferation levers & incentives researched this quarter. Next: Schedule deep dive with AP M&E team (in early Q4) to better understand Partner collaboration, proliferation levers & incentives, and other key learnings that can potentially be leveraged as eventual proliferation levers & incentives with FW Partners.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Network Expansion & Utilization: The second phase of the WM+ program, which will expand capabilities to wholesale and retail inventory at Oxygen, is now tracking yellow after being red for weeks. This is due to cross functional teams (including Distribution and Transportation) validating the detailed project plan to facilitate a Go Live of 10/15/24. Technology teams (APLA + Global) have mapped demo dates for ~20 different capabilities across Node and Logistics, enabling Biz Integration & Testing work streams to validate test cycles. Along with this validation, the teams have also documented next steps to ‘get-to-green’, some of which will start this week.
Digital Promise & Delivery Precision: The Digital Promise initiative to move off of Fixed EDD and integrate Dynamic Transit Times for single line orders in NA is planned to go live on 02/28/24. The Inventory team and their partners have stated that since 70% of orders in NA are single-line, more accurate and aggressive EDDs estimates could generate a $38M demand uplift. This will be a great step forward in the journey to close the Promise Gap

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Sustainability: The Sustainability Products and Materials Squad partnered with Product Dimensional Data (PDD) team to integrate Apparel MTZ (Move to Zero) attribution into PDD. This data groups products by tiers based on their recycled content. Tiers will be leveraged by the business to make market claims and hang-tags representing the recycled content scoring of a given product (Tier 1, Tier 2, No Tier). We will continue to work with Marketplace Sustainability to determine how we will integrate this into our reporting.
Margin Contribution: As the first value drop for Margin Contribution, the MSM and Costing squad has delivered the McKinsey work into the enterprise. This initial value drop contains tested and confirmed alignment to the original POC. It allows our stakeholders and squad to look at the McKinsey work and improve and standardize the solution. This is the first of many value drops to expose the areas where margin contribution can be improved in the end to end delivery costs.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

FY25 AOP + MSC & PSC Scoreboard: Scoreboard sessions planned for Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) and Product Supply Chain (PSC) next week (February 29 and March 1, respectively) have been repurposed to share progress on the AOP approach and scope while gathering more questions to drive clarity and alignment.
Supply Chain Change Management: The team is standing up bi-weekly connects to share measurable wins, risks/roadblocks, and next steps for each project area. The goal is to have all change managers within SCI (and beyond) join this session for learning and to create a more consistent change management experience for Supply Chain.

Weekly Updates 2.19.24

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:39:40 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Supply Chain Resilience Framework: Met with Nike Global Risk Mgmt team, confirming that an update is due to Craig Williams in June and that GRM will provide their edits on WPv1 by 3/1. Next: Engage w/ Gartner on Quantitative Model for SC Risk Mgmt. @Venky Alagirisamy (He/Him/His)
Future of Sourcing Research: Summarized key learnings from the connection w/ Mattel SVP Procurement; engaged w/ APAC Sourcing Team to plan Gartner-driven assessment of Nike’s Sourcing capabilities. Next: Iterate on current draft of WP, building on what Sourcing is and is not at Nike vs other companies. @Kristen.Hanson @luis.nava

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation: The business activation of Carrier Messaging in iTMS occurred on 02/15/24 with partners Maersk and ONE. This activation is the first direct connection built with carrier partners through the Nike Service Layer.
Distribution: The Distribution team successfully finished initial round of Inbound Functional Design workshops for the WM-19 program at Flight. The team is now working through follow-ups from the sessions and beginning their reviews of Outbound Business Requirement Documents (BRD) in advance of functional design, which begins on 02/26/24.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

SimLab | MSC: The MSC SimLab team completed HO23 actualization savings simulations that showed recommended production parameters saved $4.6M in last mile transportation costs, reduced splits by 12% and increased in-region fulfillment rate by 6.1% between Sep – Dec ’23 time period when compared to same time last year; This brings the CY23 savings for MSC SimLab up to $12.8M. More details here . @Bert.Stevens , @Eb FYI
SimLab | PSC: Powered by PSC SimLab, AP Strategic Sourcing presented their 10-year strategic sourcing strategy to the AP Sourcing VP; SimLab's recommended network projects average savings of $0.46 per unit for all AP/AC units in FY33 compared to today's network [purely optimized based on duty/quota savings and did not incorporate E2E savings based on Lead-time] . PSC SimLab also started creating a 10-year FW strategic sourcing strategy with FW Sourcing; The team is looking to do a similar apples-to-apples cost analysis for FW to determine overall cost-savings through modifying our FW source base. @Kristen.Hanson @luis.nava

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

FY25 AOP: The team continues to socialize and refine tops-down priorities with core Product Supply Chain (PSC) and Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) teams and partners, which include Technology, Commercial Analytics, and Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A). Open questions regarding the scope and approach have been gathered and will be leveraged to guide continued stakeholder engagement. @channel
E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP) Metric Dashboard & Roadmap: A training plan is being drafted to provide key functional stakeholders with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end delivery performance data and metrics. @Kristen.Hanson @Mark Griffie @luis.nava

TEAM PROMISE COLLECTIVE (TPC)

Resilience & Adaptability Workshops: Held two 90-minute workshops on 2/13 offering tools and skills to help the SCI team navigate uncertainty, stress, and change. 100+ SCI teammates actively participated in these workshops led by Stephen Shedletsky ("Shed"). Teammates were appreciative of Shed's leadership and have a desire for more of these types of sessions going forward. Next: TPC leads to schedule and facilitate a series of informal "moments that matter" for teammates who want to actively discuss and/or practice the resilience and adaptability tools shared by Shed.
Q4 Focus: On 2/26, the TPC will hold a planning session for the Q4 Leading with Purpose: It Starts in the Mirror session. If you are passionate about TPC's purpose and interested in helping plan/design/lead this session, please send an email to global-sci-tpc@nike.com !

2024 Gartner Supply Chain Webinar Series

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:05:10 GMT

Gartner supply chain webinars are designed to maximize productivity, minimize risk and enable innovation with insights and strategies delivered straight from our experts. Live attendees of our supply chain webinars have the opportunity to ask our experts questions and receive answers on their mission-critical priorities. Want to attend a webinar, but it doesn't fit your schedule? No problem. All supply chain webinars are available to watch on-demand at your convenience after the event. Additionally, check out the link below for additional on-demand content!

Series Schedule: Register for the webinars here!

2024 Zero100 Leading Minds Series

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:23:52 GMT

LEADING MINDS is a monthly webinar series by Zero100 featuring presentations from a diverse lineup of distinguished experts to challenge conventional thinking in supply chain. These episodes are designed to provide cutting-edge knowledge and forward-looking ideas built upon three key pillars. These pillars create a foundation for tailored action plans, providing fresh insights and the tools needed to navigate the ever-evolving business landscape.

2024 Leading Minds Defining Pillars

Series Schedule: Register for the webinars here!

Weekly Updates 2.13.24

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:27:48 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Future of Sourcing Research: Conducted peer-to-peer connections with Mattel and Bath & Body Works and updated the v4 draft , incorporating peer insights and feedback from the VP of APAC PSC; onboarded Sr Dir AP Sourcing to this body of work. Next: Partner with APAC Sourcing team to execute a maturity assessment of Sourcing capabilities at Nike versus the peer group leveraging Gartner's methodology.
NMS Explore | Attaching Tech Product Applicability & Business Case: Held v0 business case creation alignment meeting with SC Finance. Next: Meet with Jordan Product Team with goal of confirming muse 365 Foundation product to test applicability of "Scoby" attaching technology.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation: Since its activation on 1/24/24, the iTMS solution for Direct Ship (DRS) Optimization and Decon flows for Nike’s inbound partner, Kuehne + Nagel, has been operating smoothly, with no negative impacts reported from business partners. The team has a, ‘hypercare exit’ meeting planned for 2/26/24.
Materials | Unit of Measure: The PRSC team is working on enhancements for Unit of Measure (UOM) Standardization within SPSU25 Apparel NEXT. This final enhancement ensures the price submitted aligns with an accepted UOM that, if needed, can be converted correctly to align to standards for downstream systems.
Distribution: The Distribution BPM team kicked off their Business/End User DEMO series for the Oxygen Program to allow business stakeholders to see how products will be used in real-world scenarios, obtain sign-off on E2E functionality, reduce churn in testing cycles, and inform the training material content creation.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Generative AI Hackathon: This week the Supply Chain Analytics team hosted a 3 day Generative AI Hackathon with AWS. 14 teams across Supply Chain Analytics and ED&AI participated. Submissions ranged the gambit, from Chatbots, automated supply chain disruption insights from Zoom transcripts, sourcing simulation analysis, automated SQL query generation and knowledge creation on "where is my order?". The winning presentation can be found here and all presentations here . Because of the Hackathon, we have now developed the expertise in leveraging LLMs, Chatbots, RAG technology, LangChain embeddings and vectoring to position the organization into the frontier or GenAI. The journey has just started! We are actively working on a training plan across org, consolidation of use cases, and, recommendations on our approach.
Product Rationalization - A major product rationalization effort is underway across Supply Chain Analytics squads. This work will include product deprecation, consolidation, and restructuring to meaningfully impact resource capacity and maintenance costs. The intent is to significantly reduce legacy products within the product footprint by focusing on products with low usage or diminishing value versus initial delivery. This work will continue through the end of this fiscal year.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio | AOP FY25: Top-down guidance for investments is being refined based on feedback from Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) and Product Supply Chain (PSC) stakeholders. Click-downs of priorities were aligned with Global Supply Chain (GSC) leadership and socialized with the teams ( view here ).
E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP) Metric Dashboard & Roadmap: Dashboard enhancements were socialized with K. Hanson, M. Griffie, and N. Kotzian this week, in addition to functional leads, with great excitement around the new ‘Plan & Buy’ metrics. Meanwhile, the analytics team updated the query code, which enables a smoother transition to Data Product & Reporting (DP&R) and unlocks the potential for enhancements through data science. Next week, the team will align on the engagement strategy for the forum activation and socialization.

TEAM PROMISE COLLECTIVE (TPC)

TPC Resilience & Adaptability Workshop: There are two 90-minute workshops on the calendar for 2/13 offering tools and skills to help the SCI team navigate uncertainty, stress, and change. This content is based on feedback from the team and their request for connection and tools.

SCI Huddle Recap 02.06.2024

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:31:54 GMT

Hi team,

Our February Global SCI Huddle kicked off our year with a focus on what matters most: empathy.

Weekly Updates 2.5.24

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:53:04 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Future of Sourcing Research: pivoting the research approach towards a maturity assessment of various Sourcing capabilities at Nike versus our peer group leveraging Gartner's expertise and tools. Next: Peer-to-peer connections with sourcing leaders from Bath & Body Works (2/5) and Mattel (2/8); use Gartner "SC Score for Sourcing and Procurement" Tool to assess Nike’s maturity level. @luis.nava @Kristen.Hanson
SC Resilience Framework [TIER 1 Nike Inc Risk]: Completed Situation and Complication sections of the WP. Conducted peer connections with Lenovo and Boston Scientific to understand their approach to risk and resilience mgmt. Next: Incorporate Sit/Comp feedback from review team; refine "Risk Management Quantification" model in partnership with SC Analytics and Nike Intelligence Center; schedule peer-to-peer conversations with Starbucks and Walmart. @Venky Alagirisamy (He/Him/His)
NMS Explore | Attaching Tech Product Applicability & Business Case: Met with Jordan Sr. Dir of Engineering to express NMS interest in targeting a Jordan PU midsole model sourced at FTG/LN for development trials. Next: (1) Follow-up meeting with Jordan + other product teams to research/identify PU midsole model for trials, & (2) Meet with SC Finance (John H) on 2/1 to further refine and develop financial model and options. @luis.nava

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Distribution: The Distribution team has been working through Inbound Functional Design sessions this week in support of the newest Japan DC, Flight. @John.Brennan
RSC/DC Expansion | Cortez: The WM+ program for Cortez is now trending towards red as integrating testing is behind schedule on 55 scenarios. There has also been an increase in defects, with a total of 19, ten of which were created in the last nine days. While the team works through these issues, they are also working on a revised release plan for Outbound Base, Repack, and Exception functionality. @Eb @Rajeev Aikkara (He/Him/His)

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Deployment and Delivery Diagnostics (3D): In-region fulfillment for West Coast digital demand has increased thanks to the Deployment and Delivery Diagnostics (3D) tool. The tool has helped to identify certain inventory pockets that were supposed to be available for Nike.com fulfillment, but due to a configuration an issue, they were unavailable. Supply Chain Analytics came together to diagnose the problem and make the necessary changes. We are seeing approximately an improvement of ~8.6% of orders from the West Coast now being fulfilled by RELAY instead of out-of-region nodes, resulting in shorter lead times, reduced cost, and lower CO2 emissions. @Bert.Stevens
Traceability Dashboard: The dashboard has been deployed. It combines Nike enterprise data across materials planning (MPX), vendor (Aravo/VDD), materials (PCX), and Move to Zero (Sustainability). The dataset gives a single source of truth across different traceability programs and will be used to standardize and begin to automate program reporting. This is a key foundational step in tracing Nike’s cotton, polyester, and leather supply chains, highlighting areas of (regulatory) risk in Nike’s supply chain, and identifying where further intervention by the Traceability team is needed. @Jaycee.Pribulsky
Next week we welcome our 2x new MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Research Fellows - Shweta Sen and Sofie Netteberg. Shweta will be working alongside the Global Transportation team to look at opportunities to apply data science to the Container Loading problem. Sofie will be partnering with our Applied Analytics and Global Sourcing teams to measure and improve our sourcing decisions. @Neal Kotzian @Kristen.Hanson @luis.nava
The AWS Generative AI Hackathon is next week! Look forward to a summary next Friday!

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio | AOP FY25: Tops-down guidance was provided during Scoreboard meetings and emailed to leaders throughout MSC and PSC last week. The team is responding to questions, clarifying the scope of proposed investments, and driving a focused approach to FY25 AOP prioritization. While the AOP process is still paused, the team is focusing on building a stakeholder management and communications plan to drive enhanced efficiencies once planning activities resume.

TEAM PROMISE COLLECTIVE (TPC)

TPC Path Forward: TPC is shining a light where attention is needed, and in that ��, is focusing their efforts in February on bringing a workshop to the Global SCI community that is focused on new tools and skills that can help all of us navigate uncertainty, stress, and change. The workshop will be held on 2/13 and renowned author of Speak-Up Culture, Stephen Shedletzky (aka "Shed"), will be the keynote presenter.

Weekly Updates 1.30.24

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:13:40 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Future of Sourcing Research: Incorporated additional insights into the V3 draft and shared with VP APAC PSC; discussed deep-dive of "Profit from the Source" with FW PSC LT. Next: Peer-to-peer connections with sourcing leaders from Bath & Body Works (2/5) and Mattel (2/8); determine next steps for research with VP APAC PSC.
NMS Proliferate | Simlab-aligned Data Model for NMS Value Capture: Expanded scope of data model by integrating first iteration of CAPEX costs associated w/ mfg automation; completed documentation of model assumptions. Next: Complete visualization outcomes from PoC model and share with VP SCI, VP FW PSC; develop SOW for developing production level model (Q4+).

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation: The iTMS solution for Direct Ship (DRS) Optimization and Decon flows for Nike’s inbound partner, Kuehne + Nagel, were activated on 01/24/24. This is a MAJOR milestone for the Transportation team as it completes all EMEA inbound flows for iTMS.
Converse: The Inventory team is working to migrate the Converse By You solution to utilize the architecture and technology used by Nike By You. A gap assessment has been completed and teams are currently working on the solution design.
RSC/DC Expansion | Cortez: The WM+ program for Cortez continues to track yellow due to QA testing for Outbound Base, Repack, and Exception functionality being behind schedule. The delays have already consumed the contingency time period in the plan, and as such, Distribution team members are working evenings and weekends to catch-up.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The FW Component Costing team is collaborating with Product Creation and FW Product Engineering on utilizing component and associated labor process cost data to increase visibility and understanding of our FOBs. The teams are exploring use cases from providing recommendations to alternative methods of make and components, to evaluate a given budget, to ties into NMS , to potentially using generative AI to help design a shoe. The dashboard will be demoed soon and we are excited to drive FOB savings with this data and PCC teams!
Work on the UK Terrace DC Simulation kicked off this week with EMEA MPO. The simulation will inform network design, cost, delivery times, and flow capabilities required. The Team has identified 70% of the data sources.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio | AOP FY25: Initial investment guidance for FY25 Global Supply Chain (GSC) Priorities has been received. The FY25 investment budget will be constrained and focused, with an emphasis on completing in-flight projects (“finish the play”). This guidance and a list of initiatives will be shared during this week's Scoreboard meetings. As a next step, the team will partner closely with functional leaders and the finance team to align on nuances of Geo and Global Business Planning (GBP) submissions.

Weekly Updates 1.22.24

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:57:35 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Proliferate | Simlab-aligned Data Model for NMS Value Capture: Completed MVP v1 of NMS SimLab module that measures automation value creation for 3 labor processes across 5 top cupsole franchises and 7 suppliers; leather cutting identified as top opportunity of $500M over 10 years. Next: Refine visualizations, expand scope of model, and build SOW for developing production level model.
NMS Explore | Attaching Tech Product Applicability & Business Case: Engaged John Holland (SC Finance) to develop Scoby financial models for future integration & alignment into PSC Finance and Costing. Met with Donald M (Jordan Product Engineering) to introduce technology and tee up next conversation with Jordan product and engineering team in pursuit of the appropriate full length PU models. Next: Meet with Jordan team to deep dive into product mix and line plan options.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ (MANA): The new target date for SEC MANA Go-Live is now 07/02/24. Along with this announcement, a new dress rehearsal has been scheduled for the middle of February
Transportation: The Transportation team is celebrating the receipt of two, ‘ Transportation and Network Operations ’ awards in EMEA. The awards were for Create the Future of Sport and Be on the Offense Always. The awards were specifically given for Barge go-live and ETA export functionality enhancements, which unlocks new capabilities & value for the Geo.
SCP Best Practices: The Central Product Management team worked with geography portfolio teams to gather their requests for Q4 Quarterly Planning. The requests were then uploaded into Aha! and dispositioned to the proper Product Team’s backlog with the help of the SCP Leadership Team. The requests will now be analyzed and prioritized by product teams for submission to technology teams for Q4. This is a major milestone in the shift to Product-Led Quarterly planning as well as a big step forward in the maturity of product management.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Distribution & Transportation: Due to the recent unrest in the critical Red Sea shipping channel, Global Transportation required additional visibility to manage global ocean shipments and potential delays, by working directly with the carriers. The Distribution & Transportation (D&T) team worked closely with the business to expand the geographical coverage of the Aged Inventory at the Origin dashboard, making it a truly global view. The increased visibility now available to the Global and Geo Transportation teams provides greater transparency into supply chain issues and is an essential tool in their toolkit to collaborate with carriers during shipping lane disruption.
Global Express Lane & Trade Analytics (G&T): The team has deployed an enhanced logic to accurately calculate the Customer Receipt Date for the At Once Direct Ship (AO DRS) orders. This effort is a critical enabler to ensure the continued growth of the AT Once Direct Ship Program by allowing Account Teams to plan orders assuring a stable inventory stream for our customers while unlocking an estimated EBIT savings potential of $20M over the next 1-3 years and reducing CO2 emissions significantly through the bypassing of DC processing for these orders.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio | AOP FY25: The team is working on alternative timeline options for FY25 AOP submissions and prioritizing future communications with stakeholders.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): The Product Supply Chain (PSC) CPR was published offline this week as planned. However, the in-person meeting for Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) CPR was postponed due to inclement weather and associated power outages - a readout will be published this week.

Weekly Updates 1.16.24

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:04:24 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Proliferate | SimLab-aligned Data Model for NMS Value Capture: Partnered with Jeff White (Costing Analytics) to build foundational data set to provide latest Bill of Labor (BoL) detail and volumes for selected suppliers, franchises, and labor process areas in-scope for the data model MVP. Next: Utilize foundational data to build $ savings projections model and visuals based on NMS assumptions.
Research | Future of Sourcing Research: Updated v1 draft with responses to discovery questions from Gartner, Zero100. Next: Incorporate insights from BCG's "Profit from the Source" text and share v2 with VP APAC PSC by 1/19 for guidance on next steps.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ (MANA): With the SEC NA go-live date postponed, the Inventory team is working through the options for bringing Deployment Optimization 2.0 live. They are weighing the pros and cons of waiting for the new SEC date, or deploying earlier in the current environment (SAP AFS) before SEC goes live. Learning the new go-live date will greatly influence the options.
Transportation | rTrack: rTrack vendor, Project44, has activated views for users specifically for the current disruption in the Red Sea. With these views, Nike can track any products that are at-risk. The iTMS solution for Direct Ship Optimization (DRS) completed UAT with partner Kuehne + Nagel this week. The solution is on-target to go-live on 01/25/24.
Digital Promise & Delivery Precision: The Converse team has been provided with access to the test environment of the Nike by You (NBY) admin tool. A follow-up meeting is scheduled for next week to begin fit/gap discussions and the Inventory team hopes to have development needs for a solution ready for Q4 prioritization. Currently, 25% of the Converse business is Converse by You (CBY) and it is currently running on an unsupported platform, putting that revenue at high risk.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Controlled Allocation (CA) X DSM: The Data Science Squads have realized an incremental $3.5M EBIT in NA. Controlled Allocation leverages the Marketplace Crystal Ball (MCB) forecast generated by the DSM Data Science team and POS data to validate sales order quantities on key accounts. The teams partnered to assess the incremental value contribution of MCB on CA's recommendation. Specifically, the CA simulation framework was used to run comparisons between a 13 week moving average forecast against MCB from October 2021-September 2022. And, the output of the incremental revenue gained by MCB's forecast was reviewed with Finance.
Fulfillment Optimization: Fulfillment Optimization (FO): FO continues to scale. Last week, 4 new stores were activated, bringing the total digital fulfillment nodes to 74 in NA (13 DCs/RSCs and 61 stores)
Decision Engines | Controlled Allocation & Dynamic Marketplace Allocation: New year... new use cases: We are scaling our decisions engines and simulations across geographies and brands. Controlled Allocation is scaling to Converse, Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA) is in discovery with Greater China, and we are working with EMEA on a simulation to support multi node insights with the UK Terrace and SEC capability rollout.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio | AOP FY25: Teams have been notified of a pause to meetings, submissions, and deadlines related to FY25 AOP. Additional communications will be provided to stakeholders once clarity on the shifts to timelines and next steps is understood.
Enterprise Value Measurement (EVM) - (Formerly DTR): Guidance has been provided, and the team is coordinating cross-functional inputs for the upcoming FY24 Q2 Enterprise Value Measurement (EVM) scorecard submission for Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC), due by the end of the month.

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Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:54:01 GMT

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Weekly Updates 12.18.23

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:24:48 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Research | SC Resilience Framework: Refined scope of research in conversations with Global Risk Management and the intent of the Audit. Engaged Gartner to provide external research into Supply Chain risk management and resilience best practices. Aim is to provide a recommendation [measurement, resources, tools etc] on a scaleable data led approach to manage and monitor risk across the SC.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ MANA: Product teams across order management, Product and Inventory: ��
Wrapping up UAT defect remediation with a plan to resolve all critical and high defects by 12/15/23 (previously 12/08/23). Any defects that are unresolved or of a lower severity will be documented in a "Work Around Log" and submitted to the SEC program for review.
BPM teams have been completing training sessions with stakeholders and hypercare kick-off sessions have started. These sessions will ensure stakeholders understand the incident management flow, coverage schedules, and overall hypercare plan.
The Supply Chain Data Governance team has completed the activities for loading Direct Vendor data for SEC MANA.
Controlled Allocation has 95% system deployed to Production. Dependency on OFOA to complete final integrations. Also, the Omni Channel Order Sourcing (OOS) team aligned with SEC and partner applications within the Integrated Order Sourcing pipeline that OOS will fold into a central team that will handle L1/L2 support across the pipeline.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

SimLab:
Apparel Strategic Sourcing 's LRCP 2.0 including: (1) Exploratory analysis on LRCP 2.0 product granularity (2) Implementation of the multiple time phase optimization and (3) Development on allowable change constraints over time. In addition, the team has started exploratory analysis on Value of Responsiveness (VoR) metrics and how they are related to different buy periods in the geos. The goal is to put an estimated dollar amount to Lost Sales and Excess Inventory to enhance the usability of SimLab's Profit+ metric.
Squad has developed a simulation of the NA network which served as a training environment for reinforcement learning (RL) of middle mile policies. This RL approach was compared to the heuristic algorithm of O9 and the predictive model of RO with some constraints such as capacity optimization. Over a 7 day window, RL examined inventory at each node/lane, incoming supply, and demand forecasts and made a determination of what proportion of incoming inventory should be moved from source to target destination to meet demand. Further, a reward function was built to guide the AI to minimize costs. Initial observations highlighted that RL maybe better suited for complex environments that have variable lead times, forecasting uncertainty, or more products at the scale of the Nike Supply Chain.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice) FY25 AOP & Scoreboard: Kick-off conversations with PSC and MSC Geos took place this week in addition to Scoreboard Reviews where high-level information about the AOP planning approach for FY25 and the initial timeline was shared. The Prioritization Framework and updated Value Criteria were positively received in these sessions and will provide greater transparency to the process and alignment on FY25 priorities.

SCI Huddle Recap 12.06.23

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:55:11 GMT

Hi team,

Thanks for joining us for our December Global SCI Huddle! If you missed it, catch the recap on our site here. In our Huddle, Dolores shared information on Nike resources in our meeting that we wanted to share:

We can take an active role in making 4/1 work for us. In the Huddle we had a great activity to source ideas on solutions that are within your individual power that can help ease the transition to 4/1. Here are a few of our favorite ideas so far to help use Mondays to establish good habits, take care of ourselves, and be kind to each other:

Target meeting times for 10-4
Block out time slots for workouts
Plan your week out ahead of time to prioritize
Make your team areas fun again
Raise concerns with your manager, or to the Speak Up Portal

Please remember to have grace and empathy for your teammates, as we're all being affected differently. How we show up with each other is what matters most. We appreciate all the work this team has done so far this year - attached you can find the SCI Shoutouts that were mentioned in the Huddle. Thank you team for all that you do!

Happy Holidays,

Jon Frommelt, SC Analytics

Dolores Cranley, HR

Sukie Ewald, SC Deployment

David Ringe, SC Product Management

Weekly Updates 12.12.23

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:33:15 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Explore | Attaching Co-Dev with NXT: With NXT's Scoby solution green-lit as the "attaching" NMS Explore solution for Foundation 365 models, in Q3 the NMS team will analyze the applicability, scale, and extensibility of the solution as well as develop a robust business case (CapEx needs, OpEx savings, impact to SMS and Si across Foundation 365 at scale, etc.) to move Scoby into Standardization.
Research | SC Resilience Framework: Nike's Global Risk Mgmt has requested Nike's approach to monitoring the dynamic end-to-end supply chain risk landscape to enable responsive decisioning and greater resilience. SCI Lab will lead this body of work with the EoQ3 goal of delivering a Nike-specific quantitative definition and implementation of Supply Chain resilience (format: white paper) created using internal and external expertise and integrated into Nike's overall risk mgmt framework.
Research | Future of Sourcing Research: Following numerous conversations with VP FW PSC and VP APAC PSC, in Q3 the Lab will conduct outside-in research on best practices regarding Sourcing as a function at an omni-channel brand that does not own its manufacturing tiers. The findings of this research will be shared with both PSC VPs to inform their thinking on the evolution of Sourcing.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+:
All SCP teams have completed Cycle 3 contingency testing and remain focused on UAT and defect resolution, training, and go-live preparation.
Over 25 high fives were sent to the Order Management for going above-and-beyond with preparations and positivity to support end-user training at WHQ and Memphis ahead of MANA go-live.
Banking Automation data cleansing continues thanks to the Supply Chain Data Governance (SCDG) team.
Converse / By You: The Inventory team has connected with teams at Converse to collaborate on bringing the Nike By You tool to Converse in partnership with MSC Technology. The tool currently used for custom Converse sneakers sits on an older platform with high risk. If the current tool fails, it represents a 20-25% loss of business, thus the investigation.
RSC/DC Expansion | Cortez: While the testing of end-to-end Inbound capabilities is on track, the WM+ program for Cortez remains in ‘red’ status due to the late delivery of technical value drops. The delays are impacting QA and Exploratory testing against the revised plan for a go-live date of 04/02/24. More clarity on the delayed deliverables is expected next week as tech PI Planning commitments wrap up.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

SEC+: Squads are laser focused on final preparations for SEC MANA Stage 2 go-live. To support hyper-care, our CA, DMA and OOS squads will have 6am-10pm PST on-call coverage.
SimLab | Inventory Flow Optimization: The 12 week SimLab x McKinsey engagement - Inventory Flow Optimization powered by SimLab - has wrapped! We have established one of the only teams looking holistically across sourcing, purchasing, deployment and fulfillment with a detailed profitability lens. Over the last 12 weeks we have developed the capability to track granular cost across the end-to-end supply chain for Product-level or Order-level P&Ls. The lowest level of granularity unlocks end-to-end value leakage analyses. In addition, we accelerated the development of our interconnected simulation modules, which has delivered $7.9M savings to date and projections of $20M by end of FY24, $100 by end of FY25 as we scale.
$50M savings by end of FY25 will be driven by new supply planning simulation which after just 12 weeks of development we can emulate APO demand prioritization and capacity matching steps with 91% accuracy, adjusting key levers such as BE/BL/MAD offset/factory capacity and prioritize demand-supply match based on marketplace WOS and margin. We have have initial results for Autoclave, socks coming next!

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP) Metric Dashboard & Roadmap: The Analytics team secured the appropriate capacity to continue this work in Q3 and conducted a well-received demonstration of the Executive Dashboard with the broader Commercial Analytics community.
Portfolio - Quarterly Planning: Q3 Quarterly Planning: Commitments made during PI Planning and the Analytics Roadmap were published for stakeholder review this week. Next week, the team will facilitate trade-off conversations with MSC Technology on behalf of the Geos.
Q4 Quarterly Planning Transition: The team is partnering with Product Strategy to collect and prioritize Business Product Management features and communicate this transition to the Geos ahead of the January kickoff for Q4 Quarterly Planning.

The Discovery Series | Nike Manufacturing System

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:00:01 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear about some of the work in SCI Research & Innovation Team to learn about the Nike Manufacturing System (NMS).

Weekly Updates 11.14.23

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:01:27 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Future of Supply Planning: Shared FoSP vF (Exec Summary, Guiding Principles, Gap Analysis) with VP SCI & VP S&IP. Next: Incorporate feedback and share with Supply Alignment Forum.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation | rTrack: Since going live, the rTrack team has only encountered 4 issues with the EMEA Barge solution that provides real-time visibility into barge shipment ETAs. The Transportation team hopes to exit hypercare by 11/17/23.
FW Sourcing Transfer Tracker (STT): SST is now in hypercare. Over 200 transfer records have been completed since going live last week! No major defects have been reported and the team will continue to monitor the process and tool. STT is used for managing product and tooling transfers across 200 users across 57 Factory Partners, 6 PMOs, and 2 Nike Sourcing Teams.
AP Cost Management (APCM 2.0): Work has kicked off with multiple cross-functional working sessions with Apparel Costing Engineering (ACE), Product Creation Center (PCC), Sourcing, SC Product Management and Digital Manufacturing Technology (DMT) to define future state process. The teams are working through several open questions and expect more follow-up sessions next week.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Control Allocation (CA): Supply Chain Analytics partnered with the DSM Data Science team to develop a Forecast Evaluation Capability to measure forecast quality improvement and EBIT impact. The preliminary results have shown that the newer version of the Marketplace Crystal Ball (MCB) can make better allocation decisions with up to $1.3M EBIT improvement. Financial validation is underway.
Replenishment Optimization (RO): RO has incorporated new parameters into the EMEA RO Simulation. The new capability allows users to input different deplete thresholds for Always Available and Non-Always Available products and simulate different sales rates and capacity impact at SPARK.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP) Metric Dashboard & Roadmap: The team is developing a wireframe to provide additional PLAN insights for DSM leadership .
AOP Scoreboard Process: Mid-Q2 Scoreboard sessions for Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) & Product Supply Chain (PSC) were held on November 3 with positive feedback from stakeholders.

The Discovery Series | End to End Delivery Performance

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Ian Baker and Kelsey Markham representing the DSM, PSC, and MSC teams to learn about End to End Delivery Performance.

Weekly Updates 11.06.23

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:53:35 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Supply Planning Guiding Principles: Completed the first draft of articulating the intent of the four on-going Future of SP work tracks, funded + proposed work in each track, and track impact to existing as well as future SP engine. Next: Compare these four work tracks against the guiding principles ( vF ) by 11/9 and identify gaps.
NMS EXPLORE | NXT: Refined NXT FW + NMS Capability Roadmap, created v1 of joint "attaching" process value drops, met with FW Sourcing to converge on a model muse model for solution exploration. Next: Brian Prevo (NXT FW) to join 11/8 NMS Sprint Planning to and break down key Q3 & Q4 R&D activities for "attaching" solution.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ | MANA Stage 2: Integrated Testing Cycle 3 for Order Management, Supply Chain Data Governance, Transportation, Inventory , and PRSC has officially concluded as of 10/29/2023 and User Acceptance Testing has begun (running until 12/02/23). Some contingency testing work will continue to address any incomplete testing variations or to mitigate any remaining defects coming out of Cycle 3 testing.
FW Sourcing Transfer Tracker (STT): is now live! The PRSC team and their partners have successfully launched the application this week with lot of excitement shared cross-functionally. The application will provide FW Sourcing and PMO teams a streamlined way for managing product and tooling transfers and will benefit around 200 users ranging across 57 Factory Partners, 6 PMOs, and 2 Nike Sourcing Teams (Global and Nike By You). The team now enters the hyper-care phase and will be closely monitoring the usage over the next few weeks.
RSC/DC Expansion | Oxygen: Phase 1, focused on digital capabilities for Nike Value Stores (NVS) inbound inventory, successfully completed 2 full weeks of operations and is tracking to ramp plan. Team considers the inbound launch 'stable.' The next go-live for Phase 1, focused on outbound capabilities, is scheduled and on-track for 11/08/23.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Bottom Defect Tracking Tool (BDTS): Thanks to the RSC (Responsible Supply Chain) squad, the Bottom Defect Tracking Tool (BDTS) is now live in production! This tool was originally prototyped over the past year and it is now lives as a formal concept owned by DP&R. This tool is used by RSC Waste Team, Manufacturing, and Product teams. BDTS displays what footwear tools at the factory are producing defects and therefore contributing to our overall waste impact. This tool helps highlights where our vendors need to fix, or adjust tooling to reduce their defect rate and therefore create less waste.
Replenishment Optimization: The team increased EMEA digital fulfillment from RSCs by 14% through forecast improvements, and change in EMEA STO signal from alternate days to daily. NA: scaled up the RSR program to all 63 NA NSO doors increasing the STO volume by ~2.5 times and In Full On Time% by ~3% post RSR changes.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP): The team crossed the finish line on Phase II of the project and presented a demo of the Executive dashboard to Global Transportation and Converse. There was tremendous excitement about the work. Next week, the team will start a new phase of work, which includes preparation for a roadshow and operationalization of the dashboard, as the analytics team continues to work on requested enhancements from the SLT. ��
AOP Scoreboard Process: The Mid-Q2 Scoreboard sessions for the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) & Product Supply Chain (PSC) will take place this week to evaluate Q2 progress against our FY24 priorities. Along with the sub-initiative review, a focus area for this session is assessing and prioritizing the emerging needs requested by the MSC geography and global stakeholders.

The Discovery Series | FY24 Global Ocean Freight

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:01 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Sabrina Dean and Tracy Gillespie representing the MSC Transportation team to learn about FY24 Global Ocean Freight.

SCI Spotlight | Art of the Possible 2023

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:45:00 GMT

The balance of fresh thinking and suspending disbelief is an art , empowering us to discover what's possible .

On September 27th and 28th, 2023, Nike hosted the second annual Art of the Possible Supply Chain Innovation Summit, powered this year by Nike and Walmart. Held at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, the summit enabled leaders from both supply chains to immerse themselves into four important themes: Traceability, Inventory Optimization, Circularity, and Artificial Intelligence. Check out the event summary below, published by the SCI Lab, to recap the learnings from the Nike x Zero100 event.

In addition to the recap below, you can also check out the event Lookbook that was given to event attendees.

Weekly Updates 10.31.23

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:46:53 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS EXPLORE | NXT: Successfully identified attaching as a co-exploration space and began integration of teams and operating rhythms. Next: Break down Q3/Q4 activities for joint development.
FY24 AoTP Event: AoTP FY24 Event findings and summary shared with Nike and Walmart attendees.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Network Expansion & Utilization: The Deployment Optimization team successfully diverted Apparel product for the first time to the NA Inbound Sortation Center (ISC)! This activation will enable APP units to be deployed directly to the NA regional service centers (RSCs) bypassing the central DC, thus reducing CO2 and CPU. This is an important step in optimizing inventory flow into the network and will enable critical learnings required to scale.
Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA): DMA reallocates on-hand and incoming inventory from NDDC to Marketplace Partners’ demand and gives it back to NDDC when the next stock arrives without creating lost sales. This week, the Inventory team shared the results from the 5 week pilot, and DMA allocated 395K units from 5K orders with a +6.2% net shipped quantity gain. The algorithm also accelerated shipping speed by +7% with an 11.2 average days of acceleration.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Supply Protect | SAP S4: A cross DSM/Supply Chain Commercial Analytics tiger team provided insights on the value case for Supply Protect, a new SAP S4 capability to enable inventory pooling across channels. The team analyzed allocation decisions from FY23 and identified characteristics of products (season-less and multi-season) which, if strategically deployed to retailers with strong AUR (>=90%) would garner $42M in margin improvement and $7M captured by replenishing stocked out retailers with excess inventory.
SimLab | PSC: The Product Supply Chain SimLab PSC team presented results of 10-year scenarios to FW and AP sourcing teams. For FOOTWEAR, the team reviewed differently weighted T2 to T1 networks and now are continuing to collaborate with the FW sourcing team to loosen constraints and inputs to create a final 10-year network. For APPAREL the LRCP postprocessing functionality to compare SimLab optimal results to the current FY27 LRCP. SimLab's optimal FY27 solution demonstrated a 6.4% total Profit+ per unit improvement and a 9.6% cost per unit improvement.
SimLab | MSC: The team has successfully tested the concurrent running of 30 simulations. Over the last year, we have had scalability issues due to data-intensive computation capping our concurrent simulations to 5-8. We have now solved the issue!❗️This marks the beginning of a new era for SimLab, where we can run 6X+ the number of simulations and can respond to many more requests for simulations, ultimately producing outsized returns for the company and quicker turnaround for simulations delivered.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - Quarterly Planning: Q3 Quarterly Planning Reviews with global and GEO stakeholders concluded this week with an effort to integrate Supply Chain Analytics (SCA) and MSC Tech. Given the late transition towards the MSC Tech Aha platform, process improvement opportunities have been captured for the future. Ahead of Q4, a proactive approach to the future state process and communications plan is underway with the Supply Chain Product (SCP) Ops Team.

The Discovery Series | Value of Promising Faster

Danielle.Roegner@nike.com (Danielle Roegner) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:00:00 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Scott Kaitz and Joe Shorma representing the MSC MPO team to learn about Value of Promising Faster (Digital Promise).

Weekly Updates 10.23.23

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:55:59 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Supply Planning Guiding Principles: Distributed to SCLT & DSMLT and shared at Supply Alignment Forum (SAF) with relevant teams across GSC and DSM (PM, Analytics, Innovation, Tech). Next: Execute Gap Analysis action plan developed and being led by SII & SCI Lab.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ | MANA Stage 2: Due to a recent redesign of the Nike Operations Workspace (NOW) user interface, the Order Management team has started User Experience Testing (UXT) for NOW, Global Case Management (GCM), and Order Cancellations (ORCA). This testing is specifically designed for these areas as an additional way to enhance end-user confidence and user experience.
Inbound Transportation Management (iTMS) | rTrack: Ingress of data from vendor P44 has scaled! The ingress brings rTrack’s data into Nike’s ecosystem, providing real-time shipment visibility which enables proactive and agile decision-making from origin to final destination.
Materials Management | Unit Of Measure: The roll-out of Unit of Measure (UOM) Standardization Phase 1 for Apparel concluded on 10/17/23. The work completed in Phase 1 within Product Creation Excellence (PCX) will allow Materials Managers to meet 100% confirmation of the Raw Materials Data Sheet (RMDS) for Fall/Holiday 2024. Previously, there was an inability to share RMDS information downstream to the Product Creation Center (PCC) and our Tier1 partners which impacted their ability to complete costing activities and issue seasonal Purchase Orders (PO) on-time, impacting around $3.5B of Purchase Orders.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA): DMA was successfully piloted in Mexico! In FY24 Q1, DMA implemented its Inventory Target Model in Mexico resulting in improved inventory productivity and speed to market. DMA reallocates on-hand and incoming inventory from NDDC to Marketplace Partners' demand and gives it back to NDDC when the next stock arrives without creating lost sales. For the 5 week pilot, DMA allocated 395K units from 5K orders with a +6.2% net shipped quantity gain. The algorithm also accelerated shipping speed by +7% with an 11.2 average days of acceleration.
The Consumer Promise: The team recently deployed the FOTP (Factory On Time Performance) metric re-architecture work. FOTP is a hero metric for delivery within Product SupplyChain. Accuracy and timely availability of this metric is crucial for our delivery excellence partners to provide right signals to our marketplace operations geo teams on availability of product.
SimLab | PSC: The team is running a final 10 Year scenarios for both FW and AP sourcing teams before LRCP readouts. For AP sourcing, the team is demoing FY27 LRCP outputs versus SimLab outputs to determine how the SimLab model can improve Profit+ within the next three years. For FW sourcing, the team is demoing FY33 T2 to T1 network maps based on different cost, responsiveness, and responsibility weightings.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

FY25 MSC Annual Operating Plan: The work to develop the business case and the prioritization framework was kicked off in this week. The next step is to develop a draft and align both the aspects with cross functional stakeholders followed by Global Supply Chain LT.
FY25 PSC Annual Operating Plan : The efforts to draw up the Workback Plan for PSC AOP is underway. As part of that, the initial conversation with PSC Delivery Partners was kicked off this week, with the plans to align with additional stakeholders starting the week of 23rd October.

The Discovery Series | Special Trade Programs (STPs)

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:00:03 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Maribel Jimenez representing the MSC Global Trade & Customs team to learn about Special Trade Programs (STPs).

SCI Huddle Recap 10.19.23

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:05:18 GMT

Hey team,

Thank you for joining our latest Global SCI Huddle. If you missed the meeting, you can always check out the Huddle Toolkit to catch up.

Weekly Updates 10.17.23

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:39:35 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+
Multiple GC team members are traveling to WHQ next week for a deep dive with SEC, SCP Order Management and SCP Inventory teams to understand MANA go-live impacts for GC and ensure GC readiness.
The Inventory product team has kicked off work on how to use the new digital demand coverage solution (known as Demand Supply Assignment & Matching, or DSAM-D ) to identify excess inventory for inventory-cleaning in NA post MANA go-live. This work will be done in partnership with Analytics and Finance teams to ensure the right metrics can be created and used consistently.
Inbound Transportation Management (iTMS) : phase 1 for DC and Direct Ship (DRS) Optimization has exited hypercare as of 10/06! This is a win for EMEA as it will provide acceptable transportation load plans for containers that are sent directly to DCs.
WM+ program for Cortez continues to work through delays created by late delivery of 6 tech value drops in Q2. The impact is seen in delayed completion of quality assurance (QA) and exploratory testing.
Source Planning Optimization (SPOT): The SPOT report is now live in APAC. This report replaces a highly manual ad-hoc process and will help track KPIs like acceptance rate, volume of moves, cost saving, and more. These KPIs will demonstrate the performance of SPOT, the value it delivers, and will provide immediate insight into every seasonal balancing and load reviews.
Digital Speed Promise Gap: Discovery work for Estimated Delivery Date (EDD) shows that there’s a 40% discrepancy between the node selected by promising options (the product that determines the EDD promise on NIKE.com ) versus the node selected by Fulfillment Optimization (FO). Team working through a problem statement and the possibility of creating a simulation to help uncover what is driving the discrepancy.
RSC Traceability: Onboarding of Tier 2 vendors in TrusTrace has been completed in the production environment. This enable teams to begin uploading transaction certificates, and tracking and tracing of certified materials that will go into Tier 1 ‘Move-to-Zero’ products.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Regional Demand Coverage: This past week was the first time all of the NA RSCs have been above 40% Regional Demand Coverage! Congrats to the Applied Analytics, Fulfillment & Replen Optimization squads for their relentless work to root cause and improve data and algorithms.
Apparel Cost Breakdown (AP CBD): The team posted $21.34M EBIT through their Phase 2 Enhancement. AP CBD is utilized for cost planning, including assessing FOB improvement, historical trends, and the cost impact of different sourcing decisions.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - Quarterly Planning: The Q3 FY24 Quarterly Planning Process kicked off on October 2. The interim process has been aligned with Supply Chain Product, Nike Direct Product, and Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) in support of the MSC Tech’s request to transition to Aha.

The Discovery Series | SimLab

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:00:00 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Marcus Schneider and John Jenkins representing the SCI team and SC Analytics team to learn about SimLab: Optimizing Decision Engines.

Research Spotlight | Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:58:06 GMT

SCI's Research & Innovation Lab has published a new White Paper in collaboration with the Commercial Analytics team. Check out the paper below to learn about The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to elevate supply chain performance and productivity.

Weekly Updates 10.9.23

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:55:21 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION TEAM

Cheeky plug: We just launched the 3rd video in 'The Discovery Series,' where Harmeet Chopra talks us through 'profitability through scale,' with a lens on TMS. Check it out here.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC+ MANA Stage 2: Integrated Testing Cycle 3: SCP teams of Order Management, Supply Chain Data Governance, Transportation, Inventory , and PRSC remain on-schedule in this test cycle without any blockers or major defects to report.
Product Supply Chain - FW Sourcing Transfer Tracker (STT): The FW Sourcing Transfer Tracker (STT) is on-track to deploy by 10/30. A detailed transition plan for switching out from the legacy Confirmed Transfer Tracking Report (CTTR) into the new tool has been reviewed and finalized in preparation.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

SimLab - Existing Abilities: Reviewed HO 23 simulation results and recommendations with the NA MPO team. The team finalized parameter updates resulting in estimated saving of $4.1M for last-mile transportation costs (driven by increase in lower zones shipping, decreased split orders and reduced air freight). This brings the total projected cost savings for the calendar year to $14.7M when compared to the “do-nothing” counterfactual simulation. Some of the KPI improvements were reduction in split orders by 6.8%, and increase in-region fulfillment rate by 4.3pp between Sept 15 - Dec 31 when compared to same time last year. More details here !
SimLab - Future Abilities (Inventory Flow Optimization): We are 5 weeks into the latest McKinsey-Nike SimLab engagement and have launched three squads to enable inventory Flow Optimization through simulation for Supply Planning, rapid risk-free experimentation, and a granular end-to-end cost model. Accomplished big wins for Flow Optimization capabilities.
Progress so far.
Supply Planning Simulation: Kicked off the development of a simulation asset, which we will complete in the coming weeks.
Product-level P&L: Designed and started development of a granular cost model that will track value leakage across the supply chain to inform targeted, data-driven improvements.
Rapid, risk-free experimentation: Identified automation opportunities that will decrease experimentation cycle times from ~2 months to ~2 weeks to enable continuous experimentation and impact tracking.
Data visualizations: Initiated design of interactive data visualization to transform analytics-driven decision-making
SimLab is testing improvements to the Supply Planning engines that will drive end-to-end savings from two key levers:
Reduce of product cost: There are savings opportunities by incorporating product cost into the supply planning optimization engine.
Improve on-time performance: Savings opportunities from parameter tuning and improvements to the supply planning algorithm (e.g., prioritization by inventory levels).

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice):
FY25 Annual Operating Plan (AOP): FY25 AOP kickoff has been scheduled for the week of October 9. Pre-alignment conversations with key stakeholders within Supply Chain Product (SCP), Global Finance, and Global Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) concluded this week.
Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP): The team started the demonstration series of the Executive Summary dashboard and developed the ability to parse transportation data by mode �� . Next week, the team will walk through the dashboard and roadmap for the next phase of work and socialize the dashboard with Functional Leads.

The Discovery Series | Profitability Through Scale

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:00:01 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Harmeet Chopra representing the Supply Chain Product Management team and MSC Transportation team to learn about Profitability Through Scale: Transportation Management System Value Case.

SCI Spotlight | Top Tips for Effective Presentations with John McPhee

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:05:49 GMT

Last month, the Supply Chain Product Management team recorded a fireside chat with Harmeet Chopra, Transportation Senior Director, and John McPhee, our Supply Chain University Global Program Manager, on Top Tips for Effective Presentations in Virtual Settings. Check it out below!

Also check out the easy handout for quick reference on these useful tips!

Weekly Updates 10.2.23

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:00:55 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Art of The Possible (AoTP) Event 2023: AoTP went incredibly well with excellent partnership between Nike x Walmart. Be on the lookout in November for consolidated event insights and findings publication, including a re-cap of the Innovator showcase.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

rTrack (P44): On-track to begin UAT for EMEA Barge visibility on 10/9. The latest NPS results show nearly a 40pt positive change, going from -30 last quarter to +9 this quarter. Proof that the team’s work in driving adoption and demonstrating value with their Geo partners is working!
Responsible Supply Chain | Vendor Self-Serve Dashboard: The new dashboard is now live!!! This dashboard replaces critical reporting that has been inaccurate for over a year, fully integrating into Vendor Dimensional Data (the enterprise data source).

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Parcel Carrier Simulation and Transportation: The Analytics team is now able to provide insights on the total shipment costs across NA carriers. The data enables business users a clear view on the last mile shipment costs including detail on fuel surcharges, delivery surcharges, extended delivery area surcharges based on location, and residential charges. The data will enable better carrier cost comparisons, enhance digital order fulfillment decisions for Fulfillment Optimization and will further improve the detail and accuracy of marketplace simulations in SimLab.
GEL & Trade (G&T ��): The team has completed bringing in FY23 trade duty paid data into Production. This data provides insight into the $1.6B in duties Nike pays annually to various government agencies around the world and helps drive conversations on duty reduction opportunities through integration into SIMLab and other reporting data products. The team has also completed a MVP view of the dashboard for At Once DRS orders . At-once DRS initiative has the EBIT potential of $20M+ in FY24 in EMEA alone and is also a source of significant reduction of CO2 emissions by avoiding DC processing through the Direct Ship option.
Controlled Allocation: We have kicked off design sessions with Converse, who will leverage the Controlled Allocation Order-up-to model to help manage distribution of key franchises. This will be the first decision engine collaboration with Converse!
Deployment & Delivery Diagnostics (3D): The team has built and shared a POC version of the root cause diagnostics tool which centers around a Sankey diagram (see below ��) that can be filtered and manipulated to analyze the underlying data to help answer a couple of key questions which will enable conversations with leadership and key stakeholders to inform the future vision for the product. The "key questions" are:
How good is Nike at deploying inventory regionally?
How good is Nike at delivering regionally placed inventory?

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice):
Q1 Portfolio Review: A finalized Executive Summary of Q1 program spend, milestones and KPI's will be presented in next staff, this tracking has enabled us to re-distribute and phase funding to other programs previously below the line such as CMP2.0.

Weekly Updates 9.25.23

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:04:34 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Explore | NXT: Met to incorporate NXT Footwear + NMS SteerCo joint feedback on a 'attaching' solution proposal. Next: Meet w/ SLT again to present Q2 action plan on 10/4.
FY24 AoTP Event: The event is next week! vF sent to print, Innovator Showcase pitches reviewed and feedback provided to all 7 startups, Comms+Legal teams from Walmart+Nike aligned on all approvals & anti-trust training, detailed runs-of-show built.
SCI Research Partnerships Expansion: 8 organizations in first round of recommendations for External Research Partner Alliance (ERPA) . Multiple NDAs executed with external research firms to explore their capabilities and future partnership opportunities.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC + | MANA Stage 2 [Integrated Testing Cycle 3]:
The Order Management team has achieved remarkable results, exceeding testing requirements for two consecutive weeks as a result of order pipeline availability sooner than planned so test were able to be pulled forward
OFOA Team is 2 weeks ahead of schedule for testing variation completion in Cycle 3 (60 out of 120 planned for the entire cycle)
NOW, Case Management, OSV, and Order Maintenance have initiated testing variations this week and are also on track to be ahead of schedule based on our test plan commitments as a result of additional resources supporting testing
The Supply Chain Data Governance team has completed Wave 1 of testing for banking automation, and has kicked off COUPA E2E testing.
The Inventory team has completed 36% of their testing for Wholesale Order Sourcing (OOS)
The rTrack MVP go-live for barge visibility in EMEA is on-track for go-live in October. The rTrack vendor P44 also launched “Industry Insights” which allows Nike to analyze and track goods affected by the Panama Canal drought.
Deployment Optimization has received “Go” decision to activate the Deployment Optimization daily model on SEPT18, in conjunction with the activation of the Inbound Sortation Center in NA. This will allow product to flow out of the Inbound Sortation Center via Stock Transfer Orders (STO) directly to the Regional Service Centers , thus reducing the need to send the inventory through the central DCs before regional deployment. This success was possible through collaboration with teams across DSM, SCI, MSC, Global technology teams and our o9 platform partners.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA): The DMA launch model went live and is composed of a Streamlit UI and an optimization algorithm. It allows the MPO team to automate the manual input process for allocation by applying prioritizations to sales orders automatically. The DMA optimization algorithm will further improve this prioritization process by optimizing allocation shippable quantity and dates for launch products to maximize shippable orders for key accounts, and minimize late, early shipments and possible split shipments.
MPO Account Rep: "This has easily been the most successful and stress-free NCAA Pegasus launch we’ve ever had in my time at Nike. I haven’t gotten a single disgruntled email from accounts asking where their product is!"
SimLab | PRSC: SimLab generated T1/T2 network designs for the FY24, FY27 and FY33. We are reviewing results with the FW and AP teams to compare costs, responsiveness, risk, and responsibility across the actual network (FY24), projected network (FY27) and SimLab-generated optimal network (FY33). The FY33 SimLab network has the ability to reallocate production across current factories and MCOs while also suggesting to produce in new MCOs based on weightings across cost, responsiveness, risk, and responsibility.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice):
Scoreboard: End of Q1 Scoreboard meetings were held with MSC and PSC leadership on Friday, September 15, with productive engagements in both forums. The Executive Summary has been completed and will be distributed to SCLT end of next week
Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP): The Analytics team developed an Executive-level proof-of-concept dashboard this week. Next week, the team will socialize the work-in-progress with the SteerCo and functional leads. The Analytics team will focus on developing a click-down view with additional granularity to accompany the Executive-level proof-of-concept dashboard.

The Discovery Series | Reimagining Nike Fulfillment

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:15:25 GMT

Welcome back to THE DISCOVERY SERIES, where we're highlighting exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results from the SCI and MSC (Marketplace Supply Chain) teams.

This week, we'll hear from Scott Kaitz and Joe Shorma representing the MSC MPO Team to learn about Reimagining Nike Fulfillment (CSAT).

The Discovery Series | Robotics & Automation

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 05:55:52 GMT

Keeping up will all the great work our teams do is challenging for everyone, and connecting the dots across the work can be even harder. That’s why we’re excited to launch THE DISCOVERY SERIES , a new video series from the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) and Supply Chain Innovation (SCI) teams that will highlight exciting projects, new capabilities, and remarkable results.

This week, we'll hear from Rohit Malhotra and Amol Pandya representing the MSC Distribution Team to learn about Robotics & Automation:

Research Spotlight | Opportunities to Accelerate Nike Apparel Responsiveness

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:05:12 GMT

SCI's Research & Innovation Lab has published a new White Paper in collaboration with the Apparel & Accessories Sourcing & Manufacturing team. Check out the paper below to learn all about the opportunities discovered to advance our responsiveness through an offense focused on minimizing demand-supply mismatch.

Hungry for more? Check out the additional AP Responsiveness Materials Appendix here !

Weekly Updates 9.18.23

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:02:42 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Explore | NXT: Reviewed NXT FW + NMS joint development opportunity on attaching with NXT LT and proposed next steps for Q2.
Art Of The Possible - Nike x Walmart: Innovator Showcase prep calls completed with all start-ups, Walmart + Nike Collaboration Session SME anti-trust trainings underway.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC + | MANA Stage 2: Integrated Testing Cycle 3 - The Order Management team has exceeded testing requirements for two consecutive weeks as a result of order pipeline availability sooner than planned so test were able to be pulled forward.
OFOA Team is 2 weeks ahead of schedule for testing variation completion.
NOW, Case Management, OSV, and Order Maintenance have initiated testing variations this week and are also on track to be ahead of schedule.
SEC + | EMEA: Both our Order Management and Transportation teams are proactively working on EMEA designs and timelines in order to prepare for solution confirmation.
Supply Chain Transportation: rTrack (P44) North American rail solution has officially exited hypercare!
Digital Promise and Delivery Precision: Fulfillment Optimization (FO) logic was adjusted to improve single-node split shipments. Previously, FO may have selected a different ‘sold to’ even though a single plant was recommended. This created multiple sales orders and caused split shipments. Now, only one ‘sold to’ will be recommended, which will avoid creating multiple sales orders.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Supply Chain Data Science Summit: The Supply Chain Data Science team kicked off Q2 with our first-ever Supply Chain Data Science Summit. Most of our remote teammates joined us at WHQ, some for the very first time! Highlights of the summit included technical Keynote & Flash Talk sessions - follow the link for additional details.
SimLab: Sourcing and Supply Planning Optimization module: Integration of McKinsey teammates with our Hybrid squad will begin on Monday to build the logic for purchase order pre-consumption and to build out the data pipeline for supply network planning, open purchase orders, factory capacities, and lead/transit times that feeds into APO (advanced planning optimization). Coding starts next week.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice):
Scoreboard: Finalized Q1 content for separate Scoreboard reviews on September 15 with the Marketplace and Product Supply Chain leadership teams. An Executive Summary will be provided to Supply Chain SLT by September 22.
1SCV Intake: The team continues to work with business partners on defining ways of working. One example is developing a method for continual intake by MSC Technology, where they only intake from Supply Chain and Nike Direct Business Product Management (BPM) teams. This model will replace the current Quarterly Planning process where Global and Geo teams submit new requests quarterly.

Weekly Updates 9.5.23

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:01:28 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Explore | Proliferate: Proliferation workshop (WHQ+Asia) this week defined: (1) automated facility definition v1 + pilot options, (2) what must be true for Nike + Partners to activate, (3) next steps. Next: Present pilot options at 9/18 SteerCo.
Art Of The Possible - Nike X Walmart: Experience design complete; event attendees and speakers confirmed; 8 innovators selected for Innovation showcase; collaboration sessions prep underway w/ SMEs.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation: rTrack has activated rail for both North America and Mexico.
RSC/DC Expansion: Hypercare for Windrunner has been extended until October 4th. The priority for WM Active remains on correcting issues with labels and reducing cancellations.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Fulfillment Optimization (FO): The team has connected the SPARK RSC in Spain to consumer orders in France, unlocking greater speed and convenience in line with our Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale while increasing inventory flexibility. On Wednesday, SPARK shipped over 2.4K units to France, 4.6% of France’s total digital demand and 31% of Spark’s total outbound volume.
SimLab: Sourcing and Supply Planning Optimization module: The team selected Autoclave FW as the current initial use case for the MVP APO emulation build to find the smallest closed supply chain with the highest value. Planning and pre-work is underway to prepare for the McKinsey engagement.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale (DFSC) Digital Transformation Review (DTR): The Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) DTR 'Memo' was reviewed and discussed at the Digital Transformation Review (DTR) on August 30. The meeting was highly successful, and the ELT appreciated the transformation and value creation that the global supply chain continues to drive and capture for Nike.
Performance Mgmt - E2E Delivery Performance: The team outlined requirements for key artifacts and deliverables, which include iterating business definitions and calculations, creating assets (personas and visuals), and outlining a roadmap from proof of concept (POC) to minimum viable product (MVP). In parallel, Supply Chain Analytics partners continue to identify the data needed to test metrics and create a first draft of a persona that outlines the needs of the end user.

SCI Huddle Recap 8.29.23

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:43:27 GMT

Hey team,

Thank you for joining our latest Global SCI Huddle on Tuesday. If you missed it, check out the recording in the Huddle Toolkit . Here is a quick recap from all the great topics that were shared:

New Tech Brings New Strategies: How Planning and Execution Are More Connected

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:11:57 GMT

Radical Reinvention: Modernizing the Global Supply Chain is a bi-weekly podcast featuring conversations with the Zero100 team and various industry experts about current supply chain challenges and solutions that accelerate the Zero100 mission: Zero Percent Carbon, 100% Digital supply chains.

On the show we'll hear from academics, activists, business leaders, lawyers, NGOs, policymakers, researchers, scientists – in addition to supply chain pioneers – to help us navigate the road to achieving our mission.

In this episode, you'll hear about supply chain planning and execution, and how they are driving new levels of agility and resilience, with three unique perspectives. First, Zero100 Research VP Steve Hochman (And Nike veteran!) shares Zero100's new Regenerative Business Planning strategic framework. Next, Juan Carlos Parada, Global Head of Customer Operations discusses Unilever’s transformation with a new tech stack that's evolving how they plan and execute across their global supply chain. And finally, you'll hear from Aera Technology CEO, Fred Laluyaux about how AI-powered decision intelligence connects the dots between insights and execution. The episode is hosted by Catherine Parry, Head of Communications at Zero100.

Weekly Updates 8.7.23

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:33:12 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Explore | NXT Partnership: Held NXT FW + NMS Small Group Working Session and made progress on: (1) where we can collectively explore solutions for manufacturing automation, & (2) where our roadmaps overlap. Next: Execute 8/9 session with Steve Roth & Patrick Regan (NXT FW) to refine Q2-Q4 proposal. @Jaycee.Pribulsky
Walmart Art Of The Possible: 3 event brand concepts sourced, Dave Clark confirmed as Keynote speaker, Zero100’s supporting collab huddle prep w/ Lab research team, initiated Nike SME review of Innovator submissions. Next: Finalize event branding, dinner attendees, and event experience.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
MANA Stage 1 – Team is in hypercare. Some issues have been identified and being worked with respect to month-end close processes. Team is keeping watch on current stage 2 testing resources that may need to shift to address those issues, which could potentially cause Stage 2 testing delays.
MANA Stage 2 - The program has issued a new requirement that any Cycle 2 test that is not a part of an approved E2E cycle test must be retested in Cycle 3. This could significantly increase the scope of Cycle 3 testing so the team is doing an impact analysis on all Cycle 2 tests. Overall Cycle 2 testing health continues to be stable.
Inventory:
The Inventory team has driven alignment across EMEA and Japan to divest of XRay (Store Inbound Visibility) and migrate to the Inbound Visibility Tool by end of September. This divestiture will increase the capacity of the Enterprise Inventory Platform (EIP) engineering team that is supporting our digital promise, split shipment and Pacific country store priorities.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Apparel Responsiveness Selector Tool is now being leveraged for SP24/SU24 pilots. The tool is a machine learning model used to identify specific and actionable apparel product groupings with the highest predicted value of responsiveness. Beyond the initial pilot findings (Fleece - GC), the tool has been run to highlight opportunities for the SP24 and SU24 seasons. The materials and Apparel Sourcing and Manufacturing teams will then be using these insights to execute levers to reduce the end-to-end lead-time for these items. @Kristen.Hanson
SimLab: The team completed integration of RSC manufacturing emissions lever into the 10 year Sourcing Model which allows the RSC team to test the supply chain network effects of adding or removing sustainable energy sources like biofuels, on-site solar energy, and Power Purchase Agreements to T1 and T2 factories. The PSC SimLab team ran 4x FW scenarios with sustainability-focused energy mixes showcasing how RSC's efforts to add sustainable energies to factories can lead Nike to meet its FY30 carbon emission reduction target while in partnership with strategic sourcing teams.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Portfolio - 1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice) Scoreboard: MSC and PSC Scoreboard kickoff meetings will take place on Friday, August 4. The dashboard summary for GSC leadership will be finalized early next week for presentation to Supply Chain senior leadership.

Weekly Updates 8.2.23

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:28:09 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Walmart Art Of The Possible: Nike attendees confirmed, Plug&Play sourcing innovators, Save-The-Dates sent, Collab Session briefs v1 done. Watch Items: Walmart late on final attendees; need to quickly identify Day 2 guest speaker
Proliferate NMS | Internal Acceleration: Scheduled 1-week Accelerated Proliferation Planning workshop for 8/28 – 9/1. Next: Finalize workshop agenda and review with all key stakeholders.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
Watch Item: The first monthly financial close after Stage 1 is approaching. If issues arise, we may need to shift team resources away from Stage 2 integration testing to support. This would have an impact on Stage 2 testing timelines.
RSC/DC Expansion:
Windrunner: Congratulations to the entire Windrunner team for going live with Phase 2 of the Manhattan Active WMS launch on July 24th, 2023. This is the first Manhattan Active shipping capability that is live. Unlocks from the activation include digital outbound, hash outbound and cross-DC consolidation. The team is currently working through issues that came up in the controlled ramp all of which the team is looking to resolve by end of week.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Fulfillment Optimization (FO): FO is live in EMEA ! Over 67,558K distinct orders were sourced by FO in the first 24 hours. FO will increase full price sell-through, improve WOS, and reduce store/RSC transitions by prioritizing fulfillment of store/RSC orphaned ("deplete") inventory. FO is enabled for all DCs, RSC (SPark) and SFS (starting with Glasgow and Niketown London), and is a strategic capability required to support SFS expansion and the new UK Terrace RDC. FO will also enable France to consume digital demand from both ELC and Spain, reducing CO2, splits, and RSC depletes. See the attached more info on FO EMEA. Congrats to the FO Squad: @iwo.kadziela @kyle.balog @dimitar.gueorguiev @Andrzej Wankowicz @Mahesh Rao @Marios Braho @hadi.mohebalizadeh @Tao Xu @Daniel Crawford @Jeffrey Tang
Apparel Cost Breakdown (AP CBD): Finance has approved the Apparel Cost Breakdown (AP CBD)
EBIT value $21.3M, driven by overall improvement on cost planning estimation with comparison across multiple dimensions and seasons, informing seasonal material guidance, increasing material predictability and identifying MCO outliers for economic factors (labor, freight, etc) along with the support to multi-source strategies.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice)
FY24 Scoreboard: The Scoreboard kickoffs with MSC and PSC were rescheduled to Friday, August 4. Three views have been created of projects and programs. One for the Global Supply Chain, one for Product Supply Chain (PSC), and one for Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) based on the AOP Priority list. The team continues to identify the KPI metrics to be tracked and reported, with a deep dive scheduled for August 3. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for PSC will follow MSC to ensure structure alignment.
Integrated Roadmap: A Proof of Concept in Tableau is in progress, and the team is preparing for a demo next week.

Weekly Updates 7.26.23

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:23:50 GMT

TEAM

Deepen Vasant will join SCI post GLDP as Supply Chain Deployment Director. Official start date of August 6.
Congratulations to @Nikhil Rajkumar and his team got second place in the Intern Combine Event!

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Apparel & Materials White-paper vF published: socializing responsiveness focus and plan.
AI in Supply Chain White-paper vF published: Submitted to corp strategy for inclusion in broader AI update to John Donahoe. Zero100 facilitated peer connects on AI w/ Unilever + Esteé Lauder.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MAGC: Order Management team has successfully opened two order pipelines for GC to begin regression testing.
Sourcing Transfer Tracker [STT]: A new go-live date (10/30) for FTW has been aligned with PMO SMEs.
rTrack: NA Rail has passed formal User Acceptance Testing! Additionally, P44 ETA accuracy is now matching carrier accuracy based on July shipments thus far.
Connected Factory Capacity Ecosystem: Team completed 1-of-3 working sessions with APAC Sourcing team to review their AS-IS process flow. 2 more sessions will be completed next week in prep for end-to-end workshop on 8/1.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Responsible Supply Chain Squad continues to make progress with Restricted Substance List (RSL) , by landing data into our data foundation for prototyping. Prototype to reconstruct Bottom Defect Tracking System (BDTS) is also in motion and expecting to deliver MVP prior to Wellness week.
The combined GEL and Trade (G&T) squad has deployed the Special Trade Programs (STP) Operations Report to production. This report will enable timely delivery of STP program information to factories and ensures those factories respond to STP qualification requirements before regulatory deadlines expire. STP programs are a significant part of the $650M+ Nike saves annually through duty reduction.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP): The run of show and pre-work ahead has been finalized ahead of the upcoming Workshop II next week. The intended outcomes of this in-person workshop include business definitions of ideal-state metrics for each node in the value chain and preliminary calculations for the individual metrics (leveraging existing data).
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): The Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) CPR Dashboard is now live with Store Level 1 metrics and a new Digital Lead Time Gap calculation. MSC FY24 goals have been finalized. The Product Supply Chain CPR scorecard template has been updated to remove Product Excellence Rate (PER), which was a Level 1 placeholder metric after the Functional Performance Managers aligned with Quality partners to not report on PER. The updated template will be used for the August CPR. Discussions on how to best connect/merge E2E DP & PSC CPR have started.

Weekly Updates 7.20.23

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:26:52 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AI White Paper: The final version was shared with Drew Carpenter, Venky on 7/14. Next: vF to be sent to SC Strategy team for consolidation in the broader AI narrative being submitted to John Donahoe.
Proliferate NMS | Internal Acceleration: Drafted a recapped on “disruptive ways to accelerate the proliferation of FW mfg automation through NMS.” Reach out if you would like the see the recap and initial thinking.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
MANA Stage 1: Nike Direct Activation is Live and currently in Hypercare. The 5 Stage 1 users are enjoying the Global Case Management experience and all ticket issues raised thus far have been resolved. We expect ticket issues to rise once usage volume increases.
PRSC reports no issues from Third Party Product (3PP) Vendor data perspective, but there were 3PP transactional issues the team will evaluate for learnings to be applied to our Manufacturer cutover for Stage 2 go-live.
RSC/DC Expansion:
Windrunner: is Green for Go live date of 7/24/23 with all workstreams on track. E2E testing 98% completed with just 4 defects left to be resolved.
Transportation Management:
rTrack: is showing strong improvement in ETA accuracy and is expecting NA UAT Rail testing to be complete by 7/21.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Replen Optimization: The team deployed its Network DOS 2.0 framework in EMEA to production. In this enhanced version, ELC will primarily serve its home demand and the Spain demand IF the Spark RSC is unable to fulfill its digital demand due to low stock specifically during the inventory in-transit timeframe. As a result of the new logic, RO, is able to ensure an improvement of 35% in SKUs that would have otherwise been dropped.
Product SimLab: The teams continuing to support RSC objectives by integrating production CO2 emissions at factory level. On the technical side, the team is continuing to enhance testing framework, by developing an automated execution system to ensure the robustness and reliability of unit tests

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale (DFSC) Digital Transformation Review (DTR): The team is working through iterations of the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) DTR 'Memo' in close partnership with MSC Finance. Drafts have been reviewed by the SCI Lab and Supply Chain Leadership (A. Corner, D. Solbach, and B. Stevens). Next week, V. Alagirisamy will receive the final version of the memo ahead of the adjusted Digital Transformation Review (DTR) submission on July 21. The DTR meeting, initially planned for August 3, will most likely adjust to later in the month.
1SCV (One Supply Chain Voice): The team is preparing for the Q1 Half Scoreboard Review and kickoff with leadership.
The MSC Scoreboard Review is scheduled for July 21 and will include a review of KPIs and Milestones for FY24 Priorities led by SCI’s Product team and NDP. The session will also include a Check & Adjust as the team continues to field numerous requests outside of AOP Priorities.
The PSC Scoreboard Review is scheduled for July 25. Functional syncs with PSC leaders have started. Deployment showed up as "one SCI" with a clear call to action around critical topics, including RTO capacity constraints, upcoming scoreboard needs, and landing a decision on Manufacturing Index.

Weekly Updates 7.10.23

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:19:37 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
MANA Stage 2: Integrated Testing Cycle 2 currently has no major blocking defects.
Network Expansion & Utilization:
Oxygen: Continues reporting red status this week as the business evaluates a new date for UAT (user acceptance testing).

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Material Sourcing and Manufacturing: T he team demoed a new suite of Material Inventory Reports to Mark Griffie's leadership team that illuminate supply chain inefficiencies across multiple countries and will support future decisions around the allocation of Nike dollars with Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors. Material Inventory is a new data domain at Nike, and its availability will provide Supply Chain Analytics with opportunities to deliver meaningful insights to Product Supply Chain going forward.
Costing Self-Service Initiative: The team reached a significant milestone in setting up a self-service strategy for the Footwear Costing Organization. Datasets for the Bill of Labor, Bill of Materials, and Line Sheet were built to be flexible and to serve broad analytics use cases across many different costing functions. As we learn more about the business’s use cases we will be able to give stakeholders the ability to manage their own costing reporting.
The Consumer Promise: Stakeholders are aligned on a roadmap for the release of a newly architected On-Time Percentage [OTP]. The new OTP metric will be more accurate and align with our factory partners' needs. The go-live date is set for the end of September.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance (E2E DP): The team continues to summarize key insights from Workshop I in preparation for sharing the value chain framework and long-term vision with SteerCo next week. We are also planning an in-person workshop with key functional leads (tiger teams) at the end of July. This will serve as a critical moment to define future metrics within E2E Delivery Performance.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): Working with North America and Geo SCI leads to confirm methodology for FY24 goal setting. All other Geos are aligned on the goal-setting methodology shift.

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Stephen 'Shed' Shedletzky [Part 5 of 5]

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:41:11 GMT

Welcome back to the 2023 Global SCI Summit Series, where we're bringing you recaps of the Summit's greatest insights. Our series continues this week with a five-part Interview series with Leadership Coach Stephen Shedletzky. In Part 1, Shed shares how he became an expert in leadership development and defining what a healthy Speak Up Culture looks like in the workplace. We all play a role in creating a Speak Up Culture, learn how to create in Part 2 of the series. Part 3 includes a Q&A about being a leader in a Speak Up Culture. Lastly, in Part 4 Shed shares a story about retired US Submarine Captain David Marquet and empowering a balance of influence and ownership between leaders and teammates.

What's been the biggest lessons you’ve learned about the impact of leadership?

Shed: Yeah so, the thing that blows my mind the most about the impact leaders have on people is from this research done by the National Institute of Health and UKG. They found that the impact of a leader’s behavior on their direct reports has a greater impact on the person's health and well-being than that of their relationship with their family doctor or therapist, and the impact is on par with your relationship with your spouse.

So I'm fascinated with the behaviors of leaders, because I care less about a title than I care about how you are behaving as a leader.

At Nike, we’re seeing consistent trends year after year in our All Employee Survey that indicate that teammates don’t understand where decisions are made. Maybe I’m being naïve, but I’m optimistic that John Donahoe and his peers don’t sit around and go, “Let's be super opaque and let's make sure nobody understands why we're doing what we're doing.”

Something isn’t scaling down from a leadership standpoint. From your experience working with large organizations, what is a critical unlock for creating better understanding across our org?

Shed’s book, Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up , comes out October 3 ^rd 2023.

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Stephen 'Shed' Shedletzky [Part 4 of 5]

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:00:08 GMT

Welcome back to the 2023 Global SCI Summit Series, where we're bringing you recaps of the Summit's greatest insights. Our series continues this week with a five-part Interview series with Leadership Coach Stephen Shedletzky. In Part 1, Shed shares how he became an expert in leadership development and defining what a healthy Speak Up Culture looks like in the workplace. We all play a role in creating a Speak Up Culture, learn how to create in Part 2 of the series. Part 3 includes a Q&A about being a leader in a Speak Up Culture. Read on to learn more about empowering this balance between leaders and teammates.

I love that you mentioned striking a balance in a speak up culture between relying on the leader to solve things versus empowering the team to solving things themselves. How can people in leadership roles strike the right balance?

It's like the emergency you do not want to happen. In this simulation it was going well, and so he wanted to increase urgency to make people sweat. Make them feel like it was a real emergency. And so he shouted a very simple command into his XO (his navigator Seaman Jones) saying, “Ahead two-thirds.”

On the vessel he was trained on, this meant take the throttle, put it to two thirds, which would drain the battery quicker to create the urgency in the mission.

Over time, a manager can learn to relinquish control, give teammates authority to make decisions and try new things, and foster a mutual trust. This isn’t without giving guardrails or support, but it is a manager’s responsibility to encourage teammates to lead at any level, and to communicate appreciation when they try. That is leadership. That is empowerment.

What's fun about this is the tail can wag the dog. If you and your team decide, “We're going to have a great culture, we're going to have amazing efficiency and get a lot done, we're going to communicate. We're just going to set the tone and lead the way we wish to be led and see what happens.” And what's fun is when you do that as a team, suddenly the team gels.

It's fun, stuff gets done and discretionary effort goes up, passion goes up, retention goes up, loyalty goes up. Other people want to work on that team and soon enough senior leaders will notice and will want you in charge more because of the positive culture you’re creating.

Sometimes there is a reason to surface issues to leaders to have them fix it. Sometimes we can kind of go rogue, put some flowers on the slides and just do it ourselves. Yeah. Flower power rebels.

Shed’s book, Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up , comes out October 3 ^rd 2023. Check back this week for more daily drops of insights from the 2023 SCI Summit interview with Shed!

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Stephen 'Shed' Shedletzky [Part 3 of 5]

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:00:00 GMT

We’ve encountered some situations where we are trying to encourage a speak up culture, but sometimes things that people want to speak up about are outside of that leader's control. How do we motivate and reward speak up culture if it's out of that leader's purview to take action on something?

There's two ways to change culture: there's evolution and there's revolution. Different moments call for different behaviors. Evolution is typically top-down. It's typically less violent. Revolution is usually bottom up and is usually more disruptive. One is not better than the other. Different situations call for different things, and I'm happy for people to sort of be in the middle.

This is really challenging to do; it can’t always be reliant on top-down evolution. One leader can only do so much. Sometimes teams need to strike a balance between the leader taking things on and the individual teammates embodying their own leadership skills to get things done.

Weekly Updates 6.27.23

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:04:22 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Apparel White-paper | Materials Appendix: V5 was shared with Materials and Apparel Leadership, describing the "Materials Selector" as a key analytics tool for identifying priority materials to reduce lead time on apparel style/color. Next: Deliver the final version by 6/30, with a clear action plan for AP + MSM pilot execution. @Kristen.Hanson @Mark Griffie

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

MANA Stage 2: Go decision was made on 6/21 to open most pipelines as planned on 6/22. For ZSTA (Standard Order Pipeline) and ZFRE (Free of Charge pipeline) there are a few scenarios that will need to be deferred until OOS (Omni Order Sourcing) defects are resolved with a target completion date of end of day 6/22. @Nicole.Zukowski
iTMS: First pilot go-live. Business Activation with Maersk in Haiphong happened on June 22. EMEA & Origin team onsite with Maersk to support them through the go-live. @Eb

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Marketplace SimLab: T he team shared Back-to-School (BTS) simulation results with the NA MPO team. They also collaborated with business teams to update specific model parameters which are expected to save $4.6M for last mile transportation costs, reduce splits by 9%, and increase in-region fulfillment rate by 1.6% between June 15 - Aug 15 when compared to the same time last year. @Nicole.Zukowski
Apparel Cost Breakdown (AP CBD): The team delivered Phase 2 Enhancements. AP CBD is utilized for cost planning, including assessing FOB improvement, historical trends, and the cost impact of different sourcing decisions. This phase of enhancement enables potential FOB and Landed Cost savings opportunity visibility to Sourcing Stakeholders through Seasonal FOB walk and Material Unit Cost tabs in the Apparel Cost breakdown dashboard. The estimated EBIT value for this work is currently being assessed with Finance. @Kristen.Hanson @Daniel.Solbach

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale (DFSC) Digital Transformation Review (DTR): A first draft of the MSC Digital Transformation Review (DTR) 'Memo' is in the process of being reviewed by Supply Chain Leaders and feedback will be incorporated into the next version. A cadence for weekly reviews and revisions is set to ensure alignment ahead of the upcoming DTR submission on July 14. The actual DTR meeting will take place on August 3. @Venky Alagirisamy (He/Him/His) @Bert.Stevens @Daniel.Solbach
E2E Delivery Performance: The Delivery Scorecard was shared in the June QBR and received positive feedback from Supply Chain Leadership. Initial work-streams are kicked off and underway. @Matthew.Tuski

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Suzanne York: This week is Suzy's last week at Nike. We wish Suzy all the best as she takes on new challenges outside Nike & thank her for her dedication and commitment over the last year. We will circle back in the coming weeks on the next steps for Functional Development as it remains an important part of our Supply Chain offense.

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Stephen 'Shed' Shedletzky [Part 2 of 5]

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:00:00 GMT

What are the first steps to creating a Speak Up Culture and an environment of safety, especially in a newer team?

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Stephen 'Shed' Shedletzky [Part 1 of 5]

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:57:42 GMT

Who is Stephen Shedletzy?

Stephen Shedletzky —or “Shed” to his friends— helps leaders make it safe and worth it for people to speak up. He supports humble leaders—those who know they are both a part of the problems they experience and the solutions they can create— as they put their people and purpose first. A sought-after speaker, coach, and advisor, Shed has led hundreds of keynote presentations, workshops, and leadership development programs around the world.

AC: Shed, what got you into this line of work?

AC: Wow, that is incredible, what an inspiration. Thank you for sharing that with us.

How did you end up working with Simon Sinek?

Shed: So my first job out of business school was in supply chain. Can you believe it? And it was for an oil and gas company in in Canada called Petro-Canada Suncor. During my first day on the job, a merger was announced that cut over a thousand people from the So as I was literally walking in, so many more people were walking out.

I saw the impact of this tumultuous culture and the lack of transparency from leaders when leaders didn’t know what the future held. Instead of being vulnerable and clear about that, leaders kind of held information close to their chests. I saw the impact on people - not just their productivity, but their well-being. I became fascinated in leadership behavior and organizational culture.

It was a really dark period in my career because I fell out of love with my career very early. I saw all my peers, seemingly doing well, but I was struggling, and I had a crisis of identity. It was the first time in my life that I was doing something, and I wasn't motivated. The first person I made wrong was me like, "Why am I not motivated? What's wrong with me?" As opposed to asking myself, "what's up with this context or situation or environment? Why is it not for me?"

I was then moved into a marketing role at that same oil and gas company, and I said to a friend, "I’m not ready to do marketing for an organization where I don't believe in what they sell or how they sell it."

AC: How did your career with Simon morph to where you are now?

Shed: When I was out speaking with Simon, I would often get the question, "Hey Shed, When are you going to write your book?" And my answer was always, ‘if and when I ever come across something worth writing about.’ Because we've all picked up books from keynote speakers who wrote a book because they're a keynote speaker and those, by definition, are sh*tty books, or great coasters. And I never wanted to write one of those.

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: SCI Geo FY24 Priorities

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:39:14 GMT

Welcome back to the 2023 Global SCI Summit Series, where we're bringing you recaps of the Summit's greatest insights. A large part of the SCI Summit involved hearing from our SCI Geo partners to learn about their upcoming FY24 priorities. As we listened to each leader share, it was great to see the consistent themes not only across geos, but consistent themes with Global SCI as well.

As we look forward to FY24 across Global SCI and all our geos, we see a common thread through shared workstreams like RSC/DC activation, TMS, analytical decision engines, and SEC activations. You’ll notice that these are highlighted in our Global SCI FY24 strategic priorities; this sets the stage for us to prioritize collaboration at a worldwide level.

Check out the details of each of the SCI Geo’s priorities below.

What’s next for activating the Global SCI support of our Geo priorities? In the coming weeks, we’ll be launching our first ever integrated SCI Priority Roadmap that will show how all our Global and Geo priorities map to our supply chain and our Supply Chain strategic narrative. This visualization of our work will highlight how you are creating the future of Nike’s supply chain!

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Leadership Chat with Kathy Gomez, VP of NXT Footwear

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:53:23 GMT

Welcome back to the 2023 Global SCI Summit Series, where we're bringing you recaps of the Summit's greatest insights. Kathy Gomez, VP of NXT Footwear, joined the summit for a morning Fireside Chat to share her perspective on innovation and her leadership journey.

Weekly Updates 6.21.23

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:07:08 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS | NXT Partnership: NXT FW + NMS Small Group Working Session calendared for 8/1 to explore opportunities for partnership between NMS and the NXT.
Walmart Innovation Summit: Completed Summit intent overview + project plan to share next week with Walmart x Nike sponsors. Next: Refine Summit Intent + project plan based on sponsor feedback, finalize budget, kick-off work-streams to execute.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC: The SEC Program team (i.e. not SCI teams) is 7 weeks behind schedule for Testing MANA. In order to try to catch up and open up the Order Pipelines, the SEC program has requested that our Order Management and Omni-Order Sourcing teams work split shifts for the next 4 weeks - 6:00am - 10:00pm in order to try to "catch up" and if there are any critical defects or blockers the teamwork weekends as needed potential including July 4th. This extra work falls largely on FTE employees. Next: SCP Teams and SEC LT will continue to work on other ways to catch the program back up.
iTMS: Continues to show as red although the team is seeing strong progress on open issues and has decided to go ahead with Business activation with Maersk in Haiphong on 6/22. SOPs & workarounds are in place to manage exceptions, with a parallel plan to fix issues long-term.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Global Express Lane (GEL): The team has completed integrating consumer insights data into the MBR/QBR reporting and ensured Availability To Promise (ATP) data is integrated. The team finalized the technical and visual design for At-once Direct Shipment (AO DRS) Orders report. The At-once DRS initiative has the EBIT potential of $20M+ in FY24 in EMEA alone and is also a source of significant reduction of CO2 emissions through avoiding DC processing through the Direct Ship option.
SEC: MANA E2E testing is running 7 weeks behind schedule. The Order Sourcing integrated pipeline consisting of OFOA/OSD/EIP/SCPI/OOS have been flagged as critical for E2E tests to start. Nearly 35 tests have been identified to validate the pipeline and a Tiger team has been convened to expedite testing and resolution. Shout out to @matthew.gallagher @Deepak Kuttykrishnan @Dan Erdman @Vaseem.Khan-Nasse (She/Her) and the Omni Order Sourcing squad for your contributions. This week alone, the squad executed 65 Functional Unit tests.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale (DFSC) Digital Transformation Review (DTR): A v1.0 draft of the DFSC Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) DTR 'Memo' has been completed and is under review by SCI LT on the initial structure of the narrative. A revised version will be sent to SCI, SC Finance and MSC leadership for review mid-next week. A cadence for weekly reviews and revisions will be set to ensure alignment ahead of the upcoming Digital Transformation Review (DTR) on August 3.
E2E Delivery Performance: The team landed the final Delivery Scorecard for SC and DSM LT to share in the upcoming June QBR. Additionally, this week, the SCLT asked the team to expedite the project and share back a plan on the resourcing and requirements needed to deliver this high-priority work at speed. Feedback has been incorporated into an expedited timeline and project plan, and an updated resource ask.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NA Assistant General Manager Experience (AGMX): Outlined approach to driving the development of the AGMX in partnership with NA Operations & HR across the next 6 quarters. Working with stakeholders to confirm alignment with the plan,

2023 Global SCI Summit Series: Supply Chain Outlook 2030 with Zero100

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:05:30 GMT

W elcome to the 2023 Global SCI Summit Series, where we're bringing you recaps of the Summit's greatest insights. In this installment, learn all about where the Zero100 industry experts foresee the future of supply chain.

SCI Huddle Recap 6.13.23

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:16:39 GMT

Team,

Thank you to all who were able to attend our Monthly SCI Huddle this past Tuesday. If you missed it, catch the recap here . We kicked off with our Employee Survey Results and the Team Promise Collective (TPC) sharing how they’re going to start mapping out the actions ahead. We have made significant progress and still have a long way to go. I am excited to see the great ideas that will come out of this collective. Thank you Paul Brems for coming to represent TPC, and thank you to all the TPC volunteers who are passionate about making SCI a better place. More to come!

SCI Huddle Recap 5.8.23

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:46:20 GMT

Team,

Thanks for all who were able to attend our SCI Huddle on Monday despite campus-wide tech issues! Appreciate your dedication to come learn about our SCI Greater China (GC) and SCI North America (NA) teams who closed out our SCI Geo sharing series!

Weekly Updates 6.13.23

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:10:27 GMT

LT PASSDOWNS

Year-End Performance Conversations should be underway and completed by the end of the month. Please ask your manager about scheduling one if you don't already have one on your calendar. Also, don't forget that we have Individual Development Plan and 90day Check-in TEMPLATES to help aid and document the conversations.
SCI Summit: In addition to the note below in the "Team" section, we will recap the day for you at the SCI Huddle on 6/13 and then be on the lookout for website drops with some of the actual content!

TEAM

SCI Summit: We held the first-ever Global SCI Summit in partnership with our Geo SCI teams! The day was focused on Visibility to the work, Connection across teams, and emphasizing the importance of healthy Leadership . This was the first time we were able to bring our Geo and extended Global teams together in one forum. The day was a big success with the teams appreciating the dedicated time together and leaving with a better understanding of how aligned our priorities are.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP WP Materials Appendix: v1 shared with VP, AP PSC and VP, MSM on 6/8 — includes current state T1/T2 analysis for representative club fleece styles to test T2 strategies to reduce mat’ls LT. Next : v1 review session on 6/9.
Nike Mfg Sytem (NMS) - Proliferate | External Research: Aligned on the focus for Q1 - "Recommendations on progressive levers to incentivize automation proliferation, inclusive of costing alternative business entities, shared at August SteerCo."

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation:
rTrack: Over the Road is behind schedule but picking up momentum in NA. Team is working to get to green over the next few weeks.
iTMS: is in RED as the operational Go-Live for Maersk is being pushed to 6/22. Transportation team is evaluating overall impact to timelines and other planned work. The team is still facing several complex data quality and completeness issues in Production. There is a clear plan in place to get these to 'green' over the next 2 weeks.
Materials Management: The Gemini Bill Of Materials (BOM) Team has confirmed they will incorporate aspects of Unit of Measure (UOM) standardization work into their roadmap. This will establish hard controls for UOM when entered by Product Creation Centers or T1 factory partners and. Big shout out to DPC (Digital Product Creation) teams for this collaboration.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Supply Planning Optimization: The PSC and S&IP teams kicked off discussions on Supply Planning Optimization and Value Measurement. The joint team is looking at key input parameters to the APO process and how it impacts Nike's financial performance. The team is aspiring to deliver in-year returns as well as strategically develop a key component of Nike's digital twin to emulate the inventory buying process.
The MVP Special Trade Programs (STP) Operations Report for Global Trade and Customs (GTC) management is active and business validation is currently in progress. The STP Operations Report will enable timely delivery of STP program information to factories and ensures those factories respond to STP qualification requirements before deadlines expire. STP programs are a significant part of the $600M+ Nike saves annually through duty reduction.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: The team has completed the Delivery Scorecard which will be shared in the upcoming June Quarterly Business Review (QBR), with key data inputs from our Plan and Make partners. A detailed work back plan and timeline for Phase 2 have been completed and shared with functional leads.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): The team is preparing for Q4 and FY23 year-end reporting in June. Based on recent organizational changes, it was decided that the Global Operations & Financial Overview (GOFO) will take place as a virtual read-out until clarity on the next steps is confirmed. Therefore, the Product Supply Chain (PSC) Consumer Promise Review (CPR) will be published as a virtual read-out on June 14, followed by the Global Operations and Financial Overview (GOFO) on June 16. The Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) Consumer Promise Review (CPR) will be held in person on June 20 and will focus on landing FY23 results and goals for FY24. Work continues with the Supply Chain Analytics team to define above-the-line and below-the-line metrics development work in FY24, and a proposed Q1 roadmap has been outlined.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

GLDP:
Class 8: Obtained HC approval to land all 8 members of the class! Significant collaboration was done by the GLDP Program team, HR and hiring managers to accomplish this during a challenging fiscal climate. Thank you!
Class 10: Sent global announcement about the 8 participants in the new class starting in August.
Skill Gap Resolution Strategy: Defined the high-level approach to determine whether to buy, borrow, build, or bot specific skills to close existing or anticipated gaps. This includes developing plans to create a repeatable model that identifies skill gaps and recommendations for how to close them.

Weekly Updates 6.6.23

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:44:15 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NXT Partnership: Joint session w/ NXT FW LT to bring them up-to-speed on NMS FY24 OKRs and focus. Next: Session with NXT and FW PSC Manufacturing + Engineering subject matter experts to determine exploration overlap to reduce Labor Minutes and Skill Index.
Walmart Innovation Summit: Dates locked - 9/27-9/28 (Q2); aligned that Walmart will take lead on PnP facilitated Innovators Day. Next: Nike internal core team project kick-off/all-hands.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
The Inventory team partnered with SEC to share an update on Coverage with SC Leadership. The update provided an overview on the future of coverage and what will be delivered at MANA Stage 2. The most notable change is that we will be migrating to a forecast-based demand signal instead of relying 100% on contracts in SAP to represent demand. See HERE for the uber detailed change impact assessment. Check out the presentation HERE .
SC Transportation:
The rTrack Ocean MVP is LIVE in APLA – business and tech activations were successfully completed this week. Team is now in hypercare mode with an end date of 6/22.
The iTMS team had a successful tech & data activation with Maersk Hiaphong DC. The team is working through a data quality & completeness comparison between NIKE & Maersk systems.
Sourcing & Capacity Management:
The Sourcing & Capacity Management team delivered training to all FW Factory Partners and PMOs on the Capacity Levers feature – this capability enables Factory Partners to entire their capacity growth plans in Cap Viz with the right reason codes and validity dates, thus enabling Cap Viz to be the system of record for the upcoming Long-Range Capacity Planning (LRCP) process in July '23.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Material Sourcing and Manufacturing Squad (MSM) generated $37M of FY23 EBIT with NEXT (Negotiation Excellence Tool). This tool enables Nike’s Apparel Material Managers to analyze and explore current material forecast needs, historical and seasonal trends, vendor comparisons, and previous price negotiation results, in order to inform more accurate pricing strategies.
The Costing Squad drove a total of $79.8M in FY23 EBIT. The Apparel Cost Breakdown analytics layer provides strategic partners with the ability to utilize valuable FOB Data in analysis and critical decision-making [$43M EBIT]. The squad also delivered The Early/Late Buy FOB Adjustment Dashboard, which aids costing teams in assigning valid FOBs to purchase orders issued outside the buy month and season. Without this report, there is a high risk of inaccuracies and discrepancies occurring between Nike and their factory partners [$26M EBIT]. Finally, the team delivered a Footwear Quote Report developed to support cost engineers in meeting margin targets enabling better decision-making and minimizing financial loss [$10.8M EBIT].
The APAC Sourcing & Manufacturing Squad delivered $4.9M of FY23 EBIT through the implementation of the AP Master Data Exception data product which accelerates the resolution of unplanned. The squad also delivered an apparel cost breakdown (APCBD Phase 1 & 2) which provides insightful views on FOB composition used in cost planning, measuring FOB improvements, and tracking the cost impact of sourcing decisions.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale (DFSC) Digital Transformation Review (DTR): The project team is working on completing a first draft of the DFSC 'memo' for the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC). Engagement with senior leadership is set for next week to ensure alignment on the narrative ahead of the upcoming Digital Transformation Review (DTR) on August 3.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): The team is preparing for Q4 and FY23 year-end reporting in June. The Product Supply Chain (PSC) Consumer Promise Review (CPR) will take place as a virtual read-out on June 14, followed by the Global Operations and Financial Overview (GOFO) on June 16, and the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) Consumer Promise Review (CPR) on June 20.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Supply Chain University: Delivered multiple sessions for the European Logistic Center EMEA, covering both day and night shifts. This was the first time Supply Chain University has been offered to team members who work overnight and it was very well received. Thanks to the ELC leaders who arranged for this opportunity and to John McPhee for pulling an all-nighter!

Weekly Updates 5.30.23

Wed, 31 May 2023 21:17:41 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Value Delivery: SteerCo and Op Model are now live in partnership with FW PSC and SC Finance. The team is ready to move into the execution phase and will kick off June 1.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

PI Planning: Multiple teams worked through PI Planning this week. As a result of the alignment and focused gained through x-functional AOP prioritization efforts, our tech counterparts stated they saw a 40% reduction in the number of requests they had to analyze and respond to, thus improving the quality of their plans and saving countless hours.
Oxygen: The program is now in Green status with a Phase 1 go-live date set as of 9/4/23. The new timeline accounts for the power main audit failure.
rTrack: The program remains in yellow status as Over the Road scope is behind schedule. APLA Ocean MVP tech activation is complete and monitoring for any issues. Business activation is planned for next week!

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Controlled Allocation (CA): Demonstrated $8.1M in EBIT impact leveraging historical data to run a controlled experiment before and after its optimization to calculate its rate of DSI reduction. In addition, they generated an additional $1.6M EBIT through automation of At-Once allocations. Finance and NA stakeholders have provided their approval. Overall, CA rounds out FY23 with a total of $65M in EBIT.
Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA): Went live at EMEA Court DC went live with conservative inventory targets and generated $2M EBIT. In NA, the squad is collaborating with NA IFP Advanced Analytics on inbound container prioritization with DMA's optimization of supply/demand matching. DMA will be used to shift allocation for Fall orderbook from digital to stores on select products. Overall, DMA stands at $17M in EBIT generated for FY23.
The SimLab Marketplace: Executed Back to School simulations with a cost savings of $1.1M and increased RSC Regional Fulfillment of 3.4%. However, this was primarily driven by more shipments from Shelby and Memphis reducing splits, highlighting the overall challenge of getting a broader assortment to the RSCs today. Overall, SimLab has generated $19.8M in EBIT for FY23.
SimLab Product Supply Chain: The team is adding in RESPONSIBLE objective to its 10 year sourcing model. The team completed integration of CO2 transportation emissions data sourcing pipeline, T2 production CO2 emissions and weight-based bill of materials data sourcing pipelines. These enhancements in Responsibility will equip SimLab with robust capabilities for architecting sustainable FW and AP/ACC supply networks, positioning Nike to determine how it can achieve its FY30 sustainability objectives. Concurrently, augmentations to our end-to-end lead time will facilitate a better understanding of the cost-responsiveness trade off, thereby better informing stakeholder decision-making.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: The team has completed and delivered a work-in-progress view of a Delivery Scorecard for Leadership to leverage at the upcoming FY23 Q4BR in June. The team is kicking off Phase II of the E2E delivery work and developing a long longer-term approach for FY24.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): The June Consumer Promise Reviews (CPR) reporting cycle is now underway for the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) and Product Supply Chain (PSC). The team is reviewing and shaping the agenda in partnership with stakeholders and the senior leadership team. Additionally, there has been engagement with global finance to capture their inputs into the proposal for reporting Digital Returns.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Assistant General Manager Experience (AGMX): Working to build the AGMX charter including scope, timeline, stakeholders, project management structure and operating model.

What’s a TikTok supply chain? How social media and Gen Z are changing the balance of power in supply and demand

Sun, 21 May 2023 05:03:14 GMT

Digital innovation and investment in social media and e-commerce has created an imbalance in the balance of power in supply and demand, while supply chain digitization lags significantly in comparison. This bullwhip effect, which is being amplified by social media, is getting louder and increasingly more complex as consumers demand more transparency from manufacturers. In today’s episode, recorded live from Zero100’s annual Forum conference, Matt chats about the impact of TikTok and Gen Z on sustainable supply chains with climate communicator, influencer and lecturer Nicole Loher and Zero100 research director Mike Silverman.

Weekly Updates 5.15.23

Mon, 15 May 2023 18:17:31 GMT

TEAM

Team Promise Collective (TPC) kicked off last week with the initial group of people leaders to begin tackling the work as well as socializing TPC and gauging interest for more teammates to join. Interested in joining the Collective and giving input on what would make our team even better? Submit your information here for the TPC to reach out to you!
Nike’s Year-End Process: A reminder for all managers, please take the time to solicit valuable feedback for your direct reports, determine a CFE rating, and submit those ratings by Friday May 26 ^th . Annual Pay Review (APR) will be completed June 1-9, and HR will not be making any exceptions, so please be timely! After that, don’t forget the last step: scheduling CFE conversations and job framework conversations between June 1-30.

LT PASSDOWNS

SC Innovation Stadium - Training Camp had its first recurring session last week. In this forum AC and his direct reports came together to reflect on FY23 OKR's and start to talk about the overall SCI portfolio and how our work plays together to unlock value for Nike's supply chain. This recurring practice will ensure we are aligned and driving mission discipline, while also ensuring SCI's work ties directly to SC priorities and strategy.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP Responsiveness White Paper: V16 now and will be shared by across key stakeholders. Next steps Materials appendix.
NMS Value Stream Delivery: Executed first NMS Steerco with Q1 OKR's signed-off & operational model activated.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

SEC MANA:
The Inventory team aligned with SEC program leadership to assume primary ownership for the new Coverage solution being developed for MANA. The primary change to coverage will be the addition of a new, non-contract based solution that determines demand supportability for digital due to the divestiture of contracts.
The Inventory team gained approval on the revised solution design for the Omni-Order Sourcing Engine , with development expected to complete by 6/7. An interim solution has been put in place to enable integrated testing to move forward.
NETWORK CAPACITY EXPANSION & UTILIZATION:
Oxygen Phase 1 Go-Live (June 17th) remains at risk due to ongoing main power delays.
The Deployment Optimization team achieved a conditional approval on exiting User Acceptance Testing. Critical open defects need to be re-tested and pass by 5/12 or have workarounds documented & signed-off by the business to achieve full approval. Go HERE for a full readout of UAT scope / progress. Team is planning a 3-day workshop next week to finalize details on how NA and PSC teams will leverage this new solution to pilot the scaled-down Inbound Sortation Center approach.
SC TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT:
The iTMS team achieved a conditional GO decision for tech/data go-live on 5/22 as planned, with business go-live being pushed by 3 weeks with OCMs. This will afford the team time to fix some of the remaining Sev2 issues and compare key KPIs in production. Collectively, seven teams executed 300+ user acceptance test cases across 4 time zones with a 95% pass rate. Learn more about the iTMS vision and roadmap HERE .

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Fulfillment Optimization Squad is working towards EMEA go-live, working through various transit data validation issues. The team has has set up EMEA FO simulation framework ahead of go-live to support launch and support initial configuration recommendations. We are excited to do this in the right order --> have a simulation ready to support go-live!
The Replenishment Optimization x SimLab Squads completed the test and validation on Capacity Optimization Model enhancement for repack in the SimLab environment and shared the results with stakeholders. The results showed that the volume-based objective function more efficiently uses STO capacity to achieve SKU breadth and in-region fulfillment. This is the first time SimLab has been used to test and validate Decision Engine model features.
The new Footwear Capacity/Classification/Capability Planning Optimizer (C3PO) product is now live. The optimization MVP of the former FW LRCP application was officially launched on May 4th as the FW C3PO application. C3PO allows FW Sourcing to better align footwear demand with our Factory Partner capacity & MCO targets for the mid-range horizon (18 months – 3+ years). It has an optimization engine that allocates the demand across the available Factory Partner capacity in a way that would best enable FW Sourcing strategies such as MCO and classification targets while minimizing capacity investments. C3PO will give FW Sourcing the ability to create and compare multiple scenarios and select the best capacity plan resulting in a reduction of unplanned demand.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: The team is working to finalize an initial point of view on a interim delivery scorecard to support FY23 Q4BR in June. Most notably, Sprint 2 has officially commenced, with communications to senior leaders and the broader stakeholder group, providing high-level guidance on expectations. Additionally, Global and Geo Stakeholder Level Setting Sessions will be led by Supply Chain Senior Leadership and are being planned for the next two weeks to align expectations, project scope, deliverables, the pace of work, and resources.
SCI Portfolio Review: The Deployment team launched a new quarterly forum bringing the SCI LT together to collectively drive clarity and Mission Discipline across platform OKR's. In this kickoff, we invited SCI leadership to share, learn, and grow together in an interactive arena to define our playing field and align playbooks for the next fiscal year. This session focused on a retroactive look back at FY23 OKRs, a review of upcoming FY24 Objectives, and new visualization displaying how SCI work supports Supply Chain strategy. This is the first step towards defining and building a future SCI Portfolio Offense.
One Supply Chain Voice (1SCV) for FY24: 16 'Below the Line' Finish the Play requests have been escalated through the Q1 Planning process as “missed” in AOP. The team is working through the impact of including or excluding these items (3 have been approved as Finish the Play, 5 have been confirmed Below the Line, and 8 are still under review) and is continuing to work to align teams based on known gaps, resource shifts, and additional funding.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

GLDP CLASS 10: Gained leadership alignment on the 8 finalists. Prepared feedback for candidates who were not selected as a commitment from the Advisory Board to provide actionable information to our high-potential talent.

Weekly Updates 5.8.23

Tue, 09 May 2023 03:37:30 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP Responsiveness: v15 white paper now complete and focus on Materials follow up.
NMS Value Stream Delivery r eviewed Value Delivery Op Model with Jaycee & Daniel. Next: First NMS SteerCo mtg next week.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

GLDP CLASS 10: Completed 21 panel interviews and daily debrief sessions with the interviewers to decide on the 8 participants. This involved thoughtful and open discussions by the 7 member panel consisting of leaders from SCI, DSM, NA SC and GLDP leadership

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

MNIP alignment session with x-functional leadership held on May 3rd. Directionally aligned to move forward with a pilot leveraging a “test and learn” ISC solution for NA with key caveats. More work to do to determine factory->RSC direct parameters for pilot.
rTrack: Slipping inland timelines is putting capacity at odds with SEC MANA work starting in August ’23. This may have an impact to over-the-road implementation. Team is evaluating resources (geo and global) for inland development / UAT to mitigate.
iTMS: DRS loading rules are behind schedule for Phase 1 go-live. Team has decided to decouple DRS from DC for UAT. Phase 1 UAT has kicked off in Asia, EMEA and WHQ! 2 weeks of UAT are planned with a go-live target of 5/22.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

One Supply Chain Voice (1SCV) for FY24: As we dive into global Q1 business requests, several items have surfaced that were expected to complete in FY23 but may carry over into early FY24. The team is working with Tech to understand the size of the work remaining and potential impact. The team is in the process of developing a method for the business to approve what carries over into FY24.
We added two new team mates at interim to the Deployment team in service of E2E Delivery Performance: Kelsey Markham (GOT Strategy is home base) and Diana Lainez (Global MSC is home base). Super excited to have these talent team members focused on one of our key bodies of work.

Weekly Updates 5.1.23

Mon, 01 May 2023 22:50:54 GMT

TEAM

Continue to evolve SCI website as 'the destination' for news, weekly updates, teams & coming soon.....all team OKR's. https://globalsci.nike.com
SCI LT held monthly workday focused on AOP & FY24 goals and critical needs. We also spent time practicing giving and receiving feedback, not as easy as it sounds!!!

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

SimLab Apparel: Profit & network design model live in SimLab for Apparel sourcing and manufacturing. Next: Expand model capabilities in partnership w/ Apparel sourcing & Materials

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP) Class 10: Completed HireVue process for 30 candidates and aligned on finalists for the panel interviews.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Deployment Optimization x SimLab Squad completed new features for NRC storage modeling and source2destination safety stock parameter adjustment. They team did a readout to MPO NA logistics and SCI senior stakeholders, shared the overview of the analysis and major scenarios. The team continues to test different levers to increase the volume that goes through the ISC.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: The team is working to shift the WIP project plan for Sprint 2, inclusive of the scope of work, timeline, and resource requirements, to be a lighter lift and more agile, based on real-time feedback from senior leaders. In addition, a new, dedicated project manager (stretch role) will start on Monday, May 1, to support this work full-time.
Consumer Promise Review (CPR): FY24 goal setting for Marketplace Supply Chain Geographies has kicked off, with a pitchback anticipated for June.
Quarterly SCI Portfolio Forums: The team is working on standing up a quarterly ceremonies that will provide an opportunity for the SCI LT to come together to drive clarity and Mission Discipline cross-functionally, articulate progress and value to the Supply Chain and ensure teams are empowered to deliver on that value. This review will take place on May 10.

Weekly Updates 4.25.23

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:36:02 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Monique Matheson announced a reimagined HR for Nike that puts all of us as Employees first. This coincides with new software, Workday, and sunsetting the VALUES framework. This messaging from HR started last fall and we will learn more as we move into the year-end process in early Q1. In the meantime, check out HR's website for the latest info. Please reach out to your manager or our HR Business Partner, Dolores Cranley, with any questions. In full transparency, we may not have the answers yet, but at a minimum we can hear where your mind is.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Value Stream Delivery: Aligned on 4 FY24 NMS FTW Objectives w/ FW Mfg & Eng'r.
SimLab Apparel: Incorporated Tier 2 Textiles network into SimLab model to enable the first MVP of Profit+ maximization network design for Tier 1 & Tier 2. This MVP considers transportation time from T2 -> T1 and T1-> Customer. Next: Build in "production time" into the model.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

MAGC: Successfully tested and approved enhancements to the Purchase Order PDFs, which are foundational documents that factories must include when shipping goods to certain import countries (e.g., China). This enhancement helps resolve a time-consuming workaround that has been in place since MAGC go-live.t logic

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP): Class 10 HireVue process is underway which will be followed by interviews in early May.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Replen Optimization (RO): EMEA simulation updates were made to allow for different forecast methods for geo-level forecasts to test the new forecasts and to run full year-long simulations (EMEA) scaled up to include Portugal so Spark [EMEA RSC in Spain] can now serve the entire Iberian Peninsula. ��
Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMS): Went live in the Court DC (EMEA) with conservative inventory targets realizing $2M EBIT

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Global Supply Chain AOP Support: Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A) updated their funding details and additional items now have ED&A funding gaps. The team is working to understand the gaps and work through potential solutions. The team will share updates as they learn more. Will share an updated view of AOP in Venky staff on Wednesday.
E2E Delivery Performance: The project team is working through real-time feedback to adjust the current project plan, inclusive of the scope of work, timeline, and resource requirements that will be necessary to complete FY23 Q4 and FY24 1H objectives.

SCI Huddle Recap 4.17.23

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:13:43 GMT

Hi team,

Thank you all for joining our April SCI Huddle, and an extra thank you to our SCI Converse and SCI EMEA teammates for sharing their team narratives this month. Our SCI geo teams are all so unique in the way they function, and it has been great to create some visibility and energy around the value they bring to our holistic SCI community.

SCI Spotlight | Nike x Zero100: Art of the Possible

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:59:36 GMT

On January 24 and 25, 2023, Nike and Zero100 co-hosted a two-day working session with executives from Global Operations, Supply Chain, and Technology across multiple industries. Held at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, this event enabled leaders to transparently discuss, mutually understand, and collaboratively workshop how large organizations are responding to present-day supply chain complexity. The focus of the session was discovering how innovation in manufacturing can serve as a competitive advantage in an ever-changing landscape.

Check out the event summary published below by the SCI Lab to recap the learnings from the Nike x Zero100 event.

Weekly Updates 4.17.23

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:34:37 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Supply Chain presented at the Global Operations & Technology (GOT) AOP review last week. The content was well received and drove a lot of good conversation and a deeper understanding of Supply Chain’s work, and the impact SEC is having on our world. Andy will submit GOT’s AOP to Central Finance this week. It will then take a few weeks for Finance and the ELT to issue FY24 budget targets, so we likely won’t have full budget clarity till mid to end of May, which is typical. Hold tight in the meantime and we will keep you posted when we know more. As always, feel free to reach out to your manager or the SCI LT with any questions or concerns.

TEAM

A big thanks to all the effort the collective SCI team put into AOP and for the strong partnership with our Finance, Tech & Business partners. The work was challenging but it has established an even stronger foundation for x-functional alignment and accountability to deliver on commitments as the teams walk into FY24.
Held monthly SCI Huddle with SCI Converse & SCI EMEA teams presenting their structure and focus.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Zero100 x Nike Art of the Possible Innovation session: Published event summary focusing on key messages and learnings.
NMS Value Stream Delivery: NMS working room now live on campus with AF1 build & governance model to ensure we make progress against goals.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Inventory Deployment Optimization: X-functional leadership across SCI, DSM, PRSC, NA S&IP, MPO came together to align on an approach for resolving open concerns from Product Supply Chain leadership regarding processes, volumes & implications of increasing factory PO diverts and splits as a means of flowing inventory more intelligently/granularly into the NA network. Approach includes:
Finalizing list of guardrails to ensure quantity of PO diverts/splits are reasonable/valuable
Evaluating the results from first Deployment Optimization production runs to determine if deployment plans will produce the forecasted value
Aligning on trade-offs between Product Supply Chain and NA to ‘tune’ deployment logic

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP): Held the annual advisory board meeting to review proposed changes to approach and curriculum for Class 10.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Deployment Optimization Squad X Applied Analytics team continues progress on ISC network simulation adding new features such as case pack rounding. The team is summarizing 8 major scenarios with insights on PO divert, ISC flow and STO volumes support the May 8th biz case resubmission
Simulation Lab [Digital Twin]
Marketplace SC squad completed the HO22 AAR simulations and shared insights to NA MPO. These simulation runs included new simulation functionality: (1) Replen Optimization (RO) capacity optimization (2) improved data pipelines, (3) additional simulation parameters, (4) and various bug fixes. The team observed a 7 PP increase in RSC Regional Utilization from baseline scenarios compared to ‘unconstrained'.
Product SC Squad expanded costing framework across the 10 apparel product classifications and incorporated value of responsiveness into profit maximization framework to enable 3-10 strategic sourcing decisions that trade off cost and lead time.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Global Supply Chain AOP Support: The team partnered with Global SCI Operations and Supply Chain Finance teams to land a narrative on proposed funded and unfunded work and opportunities for profitability in FY24. This effort was in support of corporate planning at AOP and was very well received.
E2E Delivery Performance: The project team's proposal on the scope of work, timeline, and resource requirements needed to complete FY23 Q4 and FY24 1H objectives, inclusive of a new delivery performance hero metric for the E2E value chain (Plan-Make-Move).

Weekly Updates 4.10.23

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:18:34 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Last week and this week are heavily AOP focused for the LT. I know many of you through the organization are feeling the crunch as well and making quite a number of quick-turn efforts. Thank you all for your patience, support, and professionalism! We are getting closer!!! SC's AOP presentation to GOT occurs Wednesday of this week, so the finish line is in sight. It will take a few weeks to know how everything lands, but we will let you know when we have clarity. In the interim, let us know what questions, thoughts, or recommendations you have!

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Governance: NMS Value Stream Delivery (VSD) room build will be completed 4/7 in Victory AirMax360; finalized FY24Q1 NMS Automation OKRs. Next: Room review w/ AC/Jaycee/Daniel on 4/11.
SimLab Apparel: Functionality built in SimLab to utilize AP White Paper "value of responsiveness" to design AP network at classification level. Next: Recommend FY26 AP responsive network design.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

rTrack: The team continues reporting Red due to Q4 SOW still not signed, under legal review. Delay is impacting TL Implementation which is a Nike requirement for P44 input.
SEC MANA:
Order Management: Huge shout out as the Order Management product and development teams who hit the 3/31 development completion date for 100% of the committed work - congrats! Teams are on track to complete all test script creation in readiness for Cycle 2 Integrated testing kick off early May.Teams are engaging in MANA impact to Greater China deep dives; this will enable us to understand impacts to GC based on MANA SEC designs.
Coverage: Several working sessions held with SEC to determine north star for Coverage reporting. Determined that SEC will lead MVP for MANA. There will be two ‘versions’ of coverage – one that is based on SAP allocation for Retail and Wholesale Partners and a second that is specific to NIKE Digital. Inventory SCP will lead north star requirements development for the Digital beginning with EMEA as well as provide transition management support for MANA.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Functional Development White Paper: Reworked next version of the white paper for review 4/7 Next up is ‘plan’ and path to SCLT alignment.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

❗️❗️ Supply Chain Analytics Decision Engines for SEC MANA DEV COMPLETE ❗️❗️
We hit a key SEC MANA milestone this week--ranging from new features / remediations through completely new decision engines. A Shout Out to everyone who got us to this milestone! We have external dependencies on data and systems that are in-construction and have been iterating with partners towards embedding our applications into the E2E landscape. Details:
Omni-channel Order Sourcing (OOS) is a newly created decision engine consisting of a rules engine to automates pre-season wholesale order sourcing and an optimizer that seeks to maximize order fill rate and reduce split shipments for all wholesale orders.
Controlled Allocation (CA) required remediation, where a key table was rebuilt in OFOA instead of SAP. Since CA must continue to operate in EMEA, updates in the Data Layer, Backend Logic, User Interface, Data Egress and Tableau Reporting views can now run both AFS and S/4 HANA.
Dynamic Marketplace Allocation (DMA) required remediation as decisions needed to be plumbed into S4. Additionally, DMA will now prioritize at a size level, rather than just style-color. This level of precision will allow micro-movements of inventory, unlocking even more value.
Fulfillment Optimization (FO) required enhancements account for the activation of S4's Supply Protect construct as contracts begin to sunset.
Replenishment Optimization (RO) required remediation as its role evolves in S4. Eventually, Deployment Optimization (DO) will provide inventory movement decisions, while RO will continue to provide deplete and disposition recommendations as a part of cleansing RSCs of slow-moving inventory.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital Transformation Review (DTR): The FY23 Q3 DTR scorecard highlighting DFSC (Digital First Supply Chain @ Scale) business and tech investments for the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) was finalized and confirmed this week ahead of the leadership review with Campion, Friend, and Donahoe mid-next week. The inclusion of the Product Supply Chain is anticipated to follow in FY24.
E2E Delivery Performance: The project team is focused on landing a detailed proposal on the scope of work, timeline, and resource requirements that will be necessary to complete FY23 Q4 and FY24 1H objectives, inclusive of a new delivery performance hero metric for the E2E value chain (Plan-Make-Move). This plan will be presented at the SteerCo on April 12.

Leveraging SCI Transparency Channels: What's in it for me?

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:40:47 GMT

Our Team Promise commits to Creating Transparency, Supporting Rest & Recovery, and Developing You . To deliver on our promise, SCI has stood up a handful of channels that make way for engagement and progress in all three of these goals. Transparency is necessary and useful at all levels, whether peer-to-peer, transparency with your manager, or at an organizational level.

Our goal is to create consistent channels for communication, and we'd love to know how it’s going. Are you getting the information, inspiration, and connection you need or want? What’s working and what would you add or change? Let us know here !

Here are some tips on engaging with the channels SCI has set up for transparency and how to make the most out of them.

Weekly Updates from Teams to their SCI LT Member

How it creates transparency: Within your team, this helps everyone stay informed about ongoing projects and activities to raise awareness on progress or any challenges being faced.

Tips: Instead of thinking of this as a status check, be strategic about what information you think is essential for the SCI LT to know. These updates give you a direct forum for elevating your work to recognize major achievements or provide extra support.

Consolidated Weekly Updates to SC LT

How it creates transparency: A consolidated view of SCI's weekly updates is provided to SCLT – this is what is posted on our site! Also added are a few passdowns from SCI LT to give you a sense for what is top of their mind each week.

Tips: Use the weekly updates as an FYI, a conversation starter with peers, or a topic of conversation for team meetings. Always feel free to reach out with any questions to any of the names tagged in the updates.

Bi-Weekly SCI Drop Ins Led by SCI LT

How it creates transparency: These conversational sessions provide an opportunity for employees to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the SCI LT. The topics vary depending on the facilitator and questions from the team so keep coming and see what pops up!

Tips: Join these sessions to stay connected, increase our collective engagement, and share what’s on your mind. Nothing is off limits, so feel free to bring the hard questions and the LT will do their best to candidly field them.

Bi-Weekly SCI Happy Hours at Next% (Coming Zoom… A Virtual Version!)

How it creates transparency: Come connect in a fun and informal way to join our SCI community and provide a much-needed break from the day-to-day work.

Tips: Hate formal networking? Join a happy hour for a low-pressure method of meeting new teammates and connecting the dots of all our work.

Monthly SCI Huddle Hosted by AC

How it creates transparency: Our huddles are designed to communicate updates on our strategic initiatives and to share information that is relevant and [hopefully] interesting for all of SCI.

Tips: We’re always looking for feedback and topics to add, so please share your ideas with us! We’d love to hear from you.

Ad Hoc Slack Channel Updates

How it creates transparency: The SCI Team Slack channel is a great place to share more immediate updates or engage the team in a digital dialogue.

Tips: This is YOUR channel too! Keep the conversation flowing by posting what's going on in your world - work life or personal!

As always, SCI is continually focused on incubating ideas and having a collective growth mindset to push us forward. We’re all in this together and must remind ourselves that at Nike, there is no finish line.

2023 Predicts: Supply Chain Technology | Gartner

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:44:15 GMT

The article below is a research paper from Gartner, a provider of research and consulting services for businesses in the IT sector, working with organizations to develop technology strategies, plans and budgets, as well as select the right technologies for their operations.

Overview

Key Findings

Only 1% of supply chain organizations say they have no plans to invest in emerging technologies over the next five years while the vast majority of companies cite multiple reasons for doing so.
Four of the top reasons cited as driving investments in emerging technologies are companies’ needs to support new business; improve process efficiency/productivity; enhance decision making; and improve supply chain resiliency/agility.
Only 10% of companies believe that technology is not a source of competitive advantage.
Nearly a third of respondents to Gartner research said that technology is critical tothe success and growth of their business.

Recommendations

Supply chain technology leaders aiming to understand future risks and opportunities related to supply chain technology should:

Deploy automation that can drive productivity improvements by assessing how to assign work to the various robots and revamping the organization’s integration strategy as the robot ﬂeet expands beyond a single vendor.
Formulate an agile application modernization strategy by evaluating supply chain technology providers’ progress toward offering microservices, composability and open architectures.
Improve decision making speed and quality by taking an uncompromising position on reducing decision-making models across the supply chain.
Begin to build a digital supply chain twin (DSCT) by identifying key model parameters that would help to improve the resiliency of decisions if these parameters were determined stochastically.
Inventory the different decisions made in the short-term time horizon by classifying them into those that can be made autonomously, automated where human intervention is required by exception, or where analytics and artiﬁcial intelligence (AI) can augment decision making.

Strategic Planning Assumptions

By 2026, over 50% of companies deploying intralogistics robots will have a multiagent orchestration platform.
Through 2026, less than 20% of supply chain management (SCM) suite vendors will have adopted a composable go-to-market approach, although some will have adopted a microservices architecture.
Through 2026, there will be no dominant approach to delivering a true digital supply chain twin (DSCT), either through broader business networks, planning applications or intelligent data lakes.
By 2026, 95% of companies will have failed to enable end-to-end (E2E) resiliency in their supply chains.
By 2026, over 65% of short-term decisions within supply chain planning (SCP) will be automated or autonomous.

As seen in Figure 2, some of the most important factors identiﬁed as motivating supply chain organizations to invest in emerging technologies were the needs to:

Support new business/operating models
Improve supply chain resiliency/agility
Enhance decision making
Improve process efﬁciency/productivity
Address labor constraints or shortages

We identiﬁed three major areas of emerging technology investment — automation (i.e., supplementing, enhancing or replacing humans with things that can perform tasks independently), intelligence (i.e., leveraging technology to make better, faster and more enlightened decisions) and ﬁnally, resiliency (i.e., leveraging technologies to help address growing supply complexities). These align very well with the supply chain technology predictions for 2023.

Figure 2: Focus Areas for Emerging Technology Investments

Automation — In the 2021 Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Want and Needs Survey, when asked why they were investing in cyber-physical automation, 65% of respondents said it was because they were having labor availability issues. 1 Consequently, they needed technologies that could help drive productivity improvements to help mitigate the impact of labor shortages. (By 2026, over 50% of companies deploying intralogistics robots will have a multiagent orchestration platform.)
Intelligence — Decision making speed and quality was also cited as a top internal challenge companies faced, motivating them to invest in technologies that can improve decision making. (Through 2026, there will be no dominant area delivering a true DSCT, neither through broader business networks nor by advanced planning apps or intelligent data lakes. And by 2026, over 65% of short-term decisions within SCP will be automated or autonomous.)
Agility — Almost half of respondents said that network complexity is their top external challenge and they need to identify technologies that can support their needs for agility and resilience. (Through 2026, less than 20% of SCM/functional application suite vendors will have adopted a composable go-to-market approach, although some will have adopted a microservices architecture. And by 2026, 95% of companies will have failed to enable E2E resiliency in their supply chains.)

Strategic Planning Assumptions

Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2026, over 50% of companies deploying intralogistics robots will have a multiagent orchestration platform.

Analysis by: Dwight Klappich

Key Findings:

In a survey done with Peerless Research Group, when current users of robots were asked if they intended to expand their robot ﬂeets, 86% of respondents said they will.
Also, 96% of current robot users said that they planned to expand their use of robotics to new use cases.
For companies that have already invested in robotics, the vast majority said they will expand their robotics ﬂeets and look for new use cases.

Market Implications:

As companies expand their use of robotics, most will eventually have heterogeneous ﬂeets of robots from different vendors performing various tasks. Integrating with and orchestrating the work of a varied ﬂeet of robots will require standardized software that can easily integrate to a variety of agents and robot platforms. Multiagent (previously called multirobot) orchestration platforms act like intelligent middleware that integrate and orchestrate work between various business applications, heterogenous ﬂeets of operational robots, and other automated agents like doors or elevators. These solutions will assign work to the right robots based on the characteristics of immediate tasks and will orchestrate communication between different robot platforms and other types of automation agents. Integrating with and orchestrating the work of a varied ﬂeet of robots will require standardized software that can easily integrate to a variety of agents and robot platforms.

Justification:

For companies that have already invested in robotics, we explored their future investment plans. First, we wanted to know if companies planned to increase the size of their existing robotic ﬂeet, and 86% of respondents said yes, they will. Second, we wanted to know if companies were exploring new robotics use cases, and an astonishing 92% of companies said they were exploring new use cases. This suggests that in less than ﬁve years, around 50% of companies will have adopted some form of intralogistics robotics and that most of them will then have a heterogeneous ﬂeet of robots. 3 As a company’s ﬂeet of robots grows, simple point-to-point API integration will not be enough. Companies will need an orchestration capability that can assign work to the right robots based on near-real-time information and the characteristics of the activity. This will reduce the time, effort and cost to onboard new robots and will reduce support cost, ultimately making organizations more efﬁcient because work will be assigned to the robot best-suited for the task. Consequently, these companies will need a platform that can help integrate with and orchestrate the work assigned to their heterogeneous ﬂeet of robots.

Recommendations:

Analyze integration requirements as the robot ﬂeet expands beyond a single vendor.
Study how the organization will need to assign work to the various robots and what orchestration logic will be needed to support this simultaneously.
Register and map out situations where work needs to be coordinated between two different agents such as robots or other types of physical assets (agents) like doors or elevators. For example, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) moving pallets has to go through a door and needs to send a message to open the door.

Related Research: See details in research paper, linked in footer below.

Strategic Planning Assumption: Through 2026, less than 20% of SCM suite vendors will

have adopted a composable go-to-market approach although some will have adopted a

microservices architecture.

Analysis by: Christian Titze, Simon Tunstall

Key Findings:

We see an acceleration of the transformation of traditional application architectures into composable applications along with microservices. This started in enterprise-centric functions such as ﬁnance or warehouse management, but is beginning to grow in broader SCM areas such as transportation management and supply chain planning.
SCM vendors lack a composable go-to-market approach, although some are building the technical architecture to make this theoretically possible.
While some vendors have rewritten parts or all of their applications to a microservices architecture, theoretically enabling composability, very few are offering decoupled services on a commercial model. A user could compose cross-functional workﬂows, but as it stands, the user would have to purchase each of the packaged applications in full in order to do so. However, the move toward microservices does bring its own beneﬁts, such as greater ease of upgrades.

Market Implications:

With the business need for quicker adaptability, the allure of composability is that it will allow SCM consumers to adapt their SCM applications more quickly by swapping modules as business operations change. New capabilities can be added to the core of the SCM solution from not only the SCM vendor provider, but also other external sources. Composability centers around the adoption of APIs for intra-application and interapplication reuse and composition as well as commercialization. Commercialization allows for incremental product-style delivery and supports productized modules, offered as independent commercial products. However, a clear, deﬁned and communicated composable go-to-market approach from SCM vendors is lacking today, although a growing number are building the technical architecture to make this theoretically possible.

While we see a few SCM vendors well down the path of architecturally modernizing their aging monolithic application stacks, an all-encompassing go-to-market strategy in support of SKU-ed commercial products remains lacking. Some early attempts might be offering incremental product-style delivery where modules have autonomy to be delivered and versioned individually but within the vendor’s application portfolio. This would be instead of the more complicated alternative of allowing full composition of modules across offerings from different vendors.

Justification:

A microservices architecture — a variant of the service-oriented architecture’s (SOA’s) structural style — arranges an application as a collection of loosely coupled services that are organized around business capabilities. Note that it is not a layer within a monolithic application, but rather a self-contained piece of business functionality with clear interfaces. There are numerous beneﬁts of decomposing an application into a variety of smaller services. Some beneﬁts include modularity, scalability and elasticity, ease of upgrade and integration via APIs, speed of innovation and not to forget the business perspective, and agility to meet changing business requirements. Next to the underlying architectural characteristics of microservices-built applications, vendors need to better articulate their modernization approach into a compelling go-to-market business model for composability. Only this will unlock the higher levels of agility and differentiation sought by supply chain technology leaders and drive further adoption.

Recommendations:

Monitor supply chain technology providers on their success and roadmaps modernizing legacy monolithic application stacks toward
composability/microservices architecture.
Innovate with a collection of modular, composable “best-of-breed” microservices for special purposes and/or faster innovation in high-impact areas.
Challenge vendors to unlock the microservices required in a commercially agreeable and easy-to-deploy fashion without relying on legacy monolithic commercial agreements. Explore cross-functional composability with at least some commercially productized modules (for the elements of the applications needed) and demand vendor tools to support the journey.
Do not confuse dedicated cloud deployments that claim integration to microservices with microservices-based, multitenant, cloud-native applications. While some vendors are building microservices for some capabilities around the edges, this does not equate to a composable application, let alone a composable supply chain.

Related Research: See details in research paper, linked in footer below.

Strategic Planning Assumption: Through 2026, there will be no dominant area delivering a true DSCT, neither through broader business networks nor by planning apps or intelligent data lakes.

Analysis by: Christian Titze, Tim Payne

Key Findings:

Companies often start by deploying several domain-speciﬁc supply chain control towers next to their core supply chain applications in the early stages of their digital supply chain journey. They do not leverage a DSCT but rather functional models — a functional twin — for some decision making within the domain.
At the later stages of a digital supply chain journey, a company will start launching a DSCT initiative, either themselves or with software partners. This focuses on the vision of a broader and deeper model that results in a DSCT which represents the reality of the physical end-to-end supply chain with all its correlations, attributes and uncertainties.
As of today, there is no real all-encompassing DSCT existing, just partial twins lacking either breadth and/or depth and typically covering only a few speciﬁc use cases. From an architectural perspective, there are four options available to source a DSCT: multienterprise supply chain business networks, advanced planning applications, intelligent data platforms or even building it themselves.
We do not see any outright winner yet between these four options. It all depends on the individual company situation. This includes, but is not limited to their overall tech strategy, the industry segment they are in, their existing legacy application landscape or their degree of desire for digitalization. And for a certain period of time, companies might have parallel activities in place.

Market Implications:

The end-user market’s desire to move away from fragmented and siloed visibility and decision making to E2E visibility and horizontally and vertically aligned decision making, is driving signiﬁcant interest in DSCTs. This end-user market’s interest is lately mirrored in the technology providers’ offerings. The majority of technology providers working in supply chain visibility, control tower/command center and the decision-making space, however, are messaging around DSCTs with their own interpretation which is further increasing the hype and confusion. Supply chain organizations have different pathways leveraging DSCTs for better outcomes, either building or buying solutions. There are four basic options:

Visibility/multienterprise supply chain business network providers such as e2open or One Network Enterprises.
Supply chain planning platforms such as Kinaxis and o9 Solutions.
Intelligent data platforms with vendors like bluecrux or Tada Cognitive Solutions utilizing a DSCT as an enabling factor embedded in their offering, which would be a more hybrid approach.
Internal development leveraging internal data science and IT resources.

We do not see any predominant acceleration of any of the four options. It all depends on the individual company situation.

Justification:

More mature companies want to enable E2E visibility and support E2E decision making by being in lockstep with the real world supply chain. Through this link to the real world, situational awareness, supply chain decision making and risk management are greatly enhanced. Moreover, a DSCT provides the basis on which predictive and prescriptive analytics can run, allowing their full value to be realized by the organization. Key impact is through the resulting high-quality decisions an organization can make, with increased value generation and reduced value loss. A DSCT further enables the digitization of decision making by enabling visibility, aligning and automating decisions, leveraging the availability of low latency and granularity data, and providing the basis for innovation.

Recommendations:

Take an uncompromising position on reducing the number of decision-making models across the supply chain. A DSCT initiative implies ultimately a single model of the E2E supply chain.
Establish a roadmap that incorporates the evolution of the DSCT from the breadth and depth perspectives. Understand that acquiring a DSCT is a journey, and a fully evolved one cannot currently be purchased or built.
There are two needs depending on the current tech strategy, existing legacy application landscape and degree of desire for digitalization: driving the breadth through the SCP technology roadmap; and the depth through the execution visibility/business network or control tower/command center roadmaps. Remember to bring the breadth and depth together in a single DSCT at some point in the roadmap.
Be prepared to experiment and/or go outside of the organization’s usual technology providers to get this capability. Challenge them on the maturity of their offering next to providing successful use case references.

Related Research: See details in research paper, linked in footer below.

Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2026, 95% of companies will have failed to enable E2E resiliency in their supply chains.

Analysis by: Tim Payne

Key Findings:

Due to the last few years of major and minor supply chain disruptions, many companies are looking to drive more resiliency into their supply chains. They see this as a key means to help them buffer against the impacts of these ongoing disruptions more effectively.
Generally, the supply chain market and service providers have picked up on this need and have remarketed technology solutions and services now purporting to help enable resiliency for their clients.
The supply chain market typically sees resiliency as another characteristic (along with the likes of agility and responsiveness) that can be thrown into the current supply chain mix. Resiliency is broadly seen as an add-on to existing capabilities rather than a root and branch change in the way supply chains are managed.
When companies get into resiliency today, it is predominantly only at the supply chain conﬁguration level where they look at the structure of their supply chains in areas such as stocking locations, supplier base, overall capacity, etc. They do not manage resiliency at the tactical or operational levels in terms of how they will use their resources or respond to events resiliently.

Market Implications:

As companies look to deploy more resiliency in their supply chains, they will likely fall prey to resiliency-washing in the supply chain market. Supply chain technology providers, for example, will market their existing capabilities as enabling “agility, responsiveness and resiliency.” Others will position resiliency as responding faster to disruptions by repeatedly changing existing decisions (aka continuous planning). Others will position supply chain visibility (via control towers, command centers and data lakes) as providing the necessary awareness to enable some degree of resiliency. The majority of supply chain providers

(and end users) will not alter one of the key underlying paradigms of supply chain management that results in the setting up of a supply chain to be rigid and fragile.

This existing paradigm assumes that an ever-increasingly accurate demand forecast is constantly propagated back upstream in the supply chain to drive all related decisions for inventory, capacity, production, procurement, etc. When the demand forecast changes, so do all the upstream deterministic decisions. In earlier times of “steadier” state, this approach worked reasonably well. In times of uncertainty, its use results in supply chains that are set up to be rigid and fragile. This is the very opposite of resilient, which implies ﬂexibility and adaptability, especially as it relates to the impact of E2E decision making. Consequently, companies are scrambling to try to enable more resilience, but are confusing it with the race to digitize the supply chain, speed up decision making and apply artiﬁcial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to make better predictions. In doing so, they are missing the need to change the underlying paradigm of demand-driven (aka forecast-driven) supply chains.

A very small number of companies are starting to question the existing paradigm. An even smaller percentage of technology providers are also. This means that it will be several years before a noticeable percentage of companies will have truly enabled E2E resiliency in their supply chains.

Recommendations:

Enable the company’s supply chain to take full advantage of its uncertainty mitigation tactics by not constantly propagating its demand signal through the supply chain. Stop being forecast-driven by changing the planning focus onto uncertainty rather than exclusively on the plans’ accuracy. This will start the switch from deterministic to resilient supply chains.
Drive from unknown uncertainty toward known variability by utilizing AI and ML for different, multiple predictions.
Begin to build a DSCT by identifying key model parameters that would help to improve the resiliency of decisions if these parameters were determined stochastically.
Assess supply chain decisions using uncertainty metrics rather than accuracy metrics, by deploying KPIs that describe the supply chain’s capability to tolerate uncertainty and the “probability of execution” of relevant supply chain decisions.

Related Research: See details in research paper, linked in footer below.

Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2026, over 65% of supply chain planning decisions made in the short-term time horizon (zero weeks to less than three months) will be automated or autonomous.

Analysis by: Amber Salley

Key Findings:

The past several years have seen an evolution in supply chain planning technologies. Established supply chain planning solutions vendors have enhanced their ability to provide end-to-end visibility across the enterprise — extending that visibility to the operational planning horizon. New entrants have entered the market with a differentiated capability to improve visibility across supply chain planning and supply chain execution (SCE). Furthermore, supply chain planning technology vendors have invested more in advanced analytic and artiﬁcial intelligence technologies to assist users in achieving aspirations for more automation and autonomous planning
In the 2021 Gartner Future of Supply Chain Survey, surveyed supply chain professionals said that over half of short-term supply chain planning decisions are automated or autonomous by leveraging data and analytics to support decision making. 3 Planning functions with a majority of decisions being automated or autonomous are sales and operations execution (S&OE) (57%), order
fulﬁllment/available to promise (56%), production planning (53%) and production scheduling (53%).
Sixty percent of respondents in the 2021 Future of Supply Chain study identiﬁed the need of supply chains to make faster, more accurate and consistent decisions to deal with the increasingly volatile and fast evolving nature of the market. 3 The respondents identiﬁed this as one of their top three strategic planning assumptions that will drive the reinvention of their supply chain. As supply chains continue to adopt evolving technologies like artiﬁcial intelligence, digital supply chain twin, and hyperautomation they are identifying a greater number of use cases in the operational time horizon to employ real-time decision making and execution.

Market Implications:

Uncertainty and variability continue to challenge supply chains, and current economic conditions such as inﬂationary pressures and materials shortages compound these challenges. Enterprises are seeking ways to dampen the impacts of uncertainty, which has led to an increase in focus on supply chain planning. They are continuing to deploy and reﬁne their sales and operations planning (S&OP) and S&OE processes. This is done in an attempt to identify the magnitude of variability within their supply chains and build policies to better ensure decisions made and executed align with the enterprise’s strategic goals and objectives.

Evolutions in technologies that support supply chain planning greatly aid supply chains in their efforts to achieve better outcomes. These technologies help to identify unplanned events in the short term (zero weeks to less than months) that adversely impact an enterprise’s ability to execute against what it has planned. They can further identify all possible options for mitigating the unplanned events and can automatically or autonomously make a decision based on constraints, business rules, targets and policies. Increased use of hyperscale cloud platforms for scalability and speed makes it possible for supply chains to process high volumes of data concurrently. Advanced analytics and AI techniques like simulations, machine learning, deep learning and neural networks are becoming more common elements of technologies that support supply chain planning.

Many emerging vendors in the supply chain planning technology market are differentiating themselves by placing emphasis on the short-term planning horizon. They are cloud native and purpose built for enterprises to exploit their analytic and AI capabilities. Gartner is seeing an emergence of enterprises deploying an SCP solution offered by established vendors to manage, link, align, collaborate and share planning data across an ecosystem, overlaying that tool with an AI/analytics platform supporting the short-term time horizon. Gartner does not foresee the AI/analytics platforms replacing a traditional supply chain planning solution — but rather the two will work in conjunction with each other.

Recommendations:

Take inventory of the different decisions made in the short-term time horizon. Classify them into those that can be made autonomously (where everyone in the enterprise would make the same decision given the same data insights), automated (where human intervention is required by exception), or where analytics and AI can augment decision making.
Establish the policies, targets, objectives, and constraints relevant for the short-term time horizon. These should link to the enterprise’s long-term business strategy. Once established, they can inform the technology used for short-term planning, enabling it to make more relevant suggestions and decisions.
Identify areas of greatest variability in the short-term time horizon. Determine which type of advanced analytic or AI techniques can be applied to better absorb the variability in planning. This can be through the use of machine learning, discrete event simulations, optimization, etc. Or it can be done through some combination of more than one type of approach.

Related Research: See details in research paper, linked in footer below.

A Look Back

In response to your requests, we are taking a look back at some key predictions from previous years. We have intentionally selected predictions from opposite ends of the scale— one where we were wholly or largely on target, as well as one we missed.

On Target: 2015 Prediction — By 2020, over 90% of new SCE application spend will be for cloud-based applications. While warehouse management was late to the cloud party, we have now seen the switch to a very strong cloud preference across all SCE applications (e.g., transportation, global trade and warehousing). Transportation and global trade made the transition to cloud ﬁrst a number of years ago, while warehouse management systems (WMSs) were a bit behind. While Gartner estimates that overall market penetration for cloud WMS remains under 30%, this is due to the maturity and long legacy of on-premises WMS and the reluctance of companies to convert their WMS simply to move to the cloud. Today, however, the vast majority of new WMS purchases are cloud. On-premises is an exception and limited to either highly automated sites where the customer wants the WMS resident in their warehouse or places where telecommunications is unreliable. In either case, these are rare. Consequently, almost all SCE vendors now have a cloud-ﬁrst mentality also driving this increase in adoption.

Missed: 2016 Prediction — By 2020, 10% of Tier 1 product-centric businesses will have established a chief robot ofﬁce (CRO) role. Demand for automation and robotics continues to grow. In the 2021 Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Want and Needs Survey, 96% of respondents said they are adopting or plan to adopt cyber-physical automation, and in a study done with Peerless Research Group, 52% of respondents said they are adopting or plan to adopt smart robots. 1 2 While the interest in robotics is high, a very small percentage of companies, likely less than 1% or 2%, have grown their use of robotics to a point that would necessitate a CRO. However, companies that are further ahead in adopting heterogeneous ﬂeets of robots are developing robust robotics centers of excellence (COEs) which are led by the equivalent of a CRO, whether they are called this or not. Some of the companies that have extensive ﬂeets are already here, while it will take several more years for most other companies to get to the point where they need leadership overseeing their robotics operations.

SCI Huddle Recap 3.23.23

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:55:59 GMT

Hi team,

What a great SCI Huddle we had last week! Loved the energy and support you brought to our Geo teammates. SCI APLA, thank you for sharing an overview of your team’s narrative. It was insightful and helped show the reach of SCI's presence around the world. We are thankful to have you as partners and we’re excited for continued collaboration as we work together to deliver on our Consumer Promise and explore how we can better support each other.

Weekly Updates 3.27.23

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:43:28 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

In continuation of our journey to better deliver against our team promise, we have posted 90 Day Check-In and IDP templates to the Career Tools section of our website. The templates are not mandatory but are intended to bring structure and guidance to career conversations in need of help.
Check out our Team Promise update below in the Team portion of our weekly update to the SCLT - watch the short video and ask your manager about the meeting.

TEAM

Hosted our first all-People Leader meeting to dig into our Team Promise and discuss how we as leaders can focus on building up our teams. The session was well attended and received very positive feedback. We will likely do more of these in the future. Checkout this short clip on rest and recovery filmed during the session to get a feel for the types of conversations we were having.
The APLA SCI team did an incredible job sharing their Team Narrative at the Global SCI huddle . A big heartfelt felt thank you to the APLA SCI team for sharing their story and for all of the preparation. The team has lots of energy and love for APLA right now! @John.Brennan

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP Responsiveness: V1 of Apparel responsive White Paper submitted to Venky & Andy via @Kristen.Hanson . Positive response and some clear follow ups. Will share V2 with this group.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Product Portfolio & FY24 AOP: Teams have been working across, Nike Digital Product and Global/Geo Tech teams to finalize FY24 capacity “waterline” for top supply chain priorities. To land this, help is needed with Tech Leadership to clarify how capacity shortfalls to deliver SEC will be addressed. Next steps: Full marketplace view near completion, but awaiting 1-N priority from Product Supply Chain @Ugwechi Amadi (she/her) @Raman Bukkapatnam @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His)
�� WINDRUNNER – WM+ Phase 2 go-live date of May 22 is at risk. QA testing is 14% complete, approximately 12% behind target due to tech delivery delays. Steerco continues to meet weekly to assist with blocker removal. No additional leadership support required. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Eb
�� CORTEZ – WM+ and oTMS Business, SCP and tech have aligned on a replanned go-live date of February 19, 2024. Tech will maintain their commitment to deliver all components by Oct 2023 as previously planned to enable an extended testing period prior to deployment. oTMS design completed and build is WIP. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Eb
�� INVENTORY, Deployment Optimization User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for release 1.0 (Destination postponement via ISC and Factory->RSC direct flows) is progressing well, with 39% of test cases complete. One UAT-related critical issue currently open, but in progress for resolution. Team is also working with Analytics to align approach and timing for validation of o9 output. @Raman Bukkapatnam

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Rapid Store Replenishment (RSR) x Replenishment Optimization (RO) // NA: North America product flow is expanding rapidly! We now have 63 stores being served by Dash, Connect, and Relay, and a total of 2600 SKUs. The stores replenishment lead time from Regional Service Centers is 4.8 days versus 9.8 to 15.0 days from our legacy DCs. That represents a vast improvement in service times. @Nicole.Zukowski
The ISC Modeling Team continues to build out a back-testing framework for the Flow Strategy, a model which provides key input into O9 on how much inventory flows through the ISC. As of this week, the team completed the initial development to emulate PO split for iterative decision dates over a 6 month period. Next week, we will review metrics such as RSC utilization, regional fulfillment and ISC/RSC turns. @Nicole.Zukowski @Raman Bukkapatnam

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital Transformation Review (DTR): The team is working to finalize an initial point of view on the DTR scorecard following alignment with our finance counterparts this week on the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) Appropriation Requests (ARs). An updated scorecard will be ready by the March 24 due date for April submissions. @Daniel.Solbach

Research Spotlight | Automation of Multi-Unit Packing (AMP) Solutions

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:20:55 GMT

Automating distribution processes is essential in today’s complex and competitive supply chains. Kurt Van Donink, VP of European Logistics, identified packing multi-unit orders as a specific area needing improvement at Nike and asked the SCI Lab to find out what technology might exist to help with this issue. From their research, the team identified four recommended packaging automation solution providers that might be able to automate our packing for multi-unit orders, thus potentially leading to lower costs, higher sustainability, higher capacity, and lower labor dependency.

The work from the SCI Lab is still ongoing, but if you'd like to learn more, check out the White Paper and the video below highlighting the potential automation solutions!

Weekly Updates 3.20.23

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:00:45 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Board of Directors (BoD) Meeting: The Supply Chain presentation to the BoD went very well with quality engagement, including many great questions from Phil Knight. Check out the Lab update below for more details. This BoD presentation helped clear the way for us to push the Nike Manufacturing System (NMS) work from a concept to a tangible approach, and now that is the work we need to go do!
A video showcasing NMS is being created and will be shared with you all once it is ready.
The NMS team is looking for a more permanent location for the actual build-out that was shared with the Board. Once done, we will be able to share the "physical" experience with SCI.
Travel & Expense (T&E): As we're nearing the end of the Fiscal Year, we are entering a time of paying extra attention to our spending to make sure we land our overarching budgets in a healthy place. SCI leadership will be reviewing all T&E (including off-sites and workshops) to ensure they are business critical and then will get final approval from AC, so be sure to reach out to your leaders on how they want to run the approval processes for your team.

TEAM

Three Geo x Global Analytics connects this week with NA, EMEA, and APLA. Reviewed topics below. Great work and time investment fostering this GEO connection. Thanks @raghu.movva and @Bryan MacPherson for leading here!
Capacity management tools at ELC
Transportation data foundation in NA
Inbound Sortation Center SimLab modeling
APLA analytics team formation
DMA go-live in Mexico risk and opportunities.
Simulation Lab progress and vision
@Anupama Putcha (She/Her) is facilitating the "Empower Her" programming as part of Women of GOT's Women History Month Series. Sessions are planned for 03/17 and 04/06.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Nike Manufacturing System (NMS) Board Of Directors (BoD) Meeting: Supply Chain presented to the BoD on Wednesday morning. 30 minutes from @Venky Alagirisamy (He/Him/His) showing progress on DFSC@S strategy since 2020. Followed by 30 minutes walk thru the NMS room showcasing our approach on how we will measure, where we will standardize & our path to proliferation across FTW. Great feedback from the BoD on our approach, now let's get it done! �� @Jaycee.Pribulsky
Simulation Lab [Apparel]: Alignment with PSC Strategic Sourcing teams on approach for adding "value of responsiveness" into SimLab Sourcing Optimization model. @Kristen.Hanson

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

�� Transportation rTrack: The team was able to bridge Q4 funding gap and is working to sign Q4 SoW ASAP. @Daniel.Solbach @John.Brennan
�� Windrunner WM: Team is driving towards May 22nd go-live, with development and QA teams working in parallel to achieve timelines despite tech delays, some of which are associated with overdue delivery from Manhattan. Initiated leadership escalations with TPM and Engineering this week – working sessions in EMEA next week to better understand root causes for tech delivery challenges. Expecting readout in 2 weeks to determine next steps. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Bert.Stevens @Eb
�� FW Product Classification Strategy (PCS): MVP will be launched in Q4. This tool will enable FW Sourcing to strategically plan the right capacity, classification and capability growth at the right factory and MCO, for mid-range planning horizon. @Jaycee.Pribulsky

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Deployment Optimization (DO) Squad , with help from the Replen Optimization (RO) Squad , successfully presented the first o9 emulation and flow strategy demo, showcasing the ability to emulate the o9 operational process by tracking all the major decisions through the journey of PO divert . This capability can help the business to simulate Deployment Optimization impact with Inbound sortation center, on regional service center utilization, inventory turns and regional fulfillment. Longer term, this emulation can be integrated into SimLab . @Nicole.Zukowski
FW Long Range Capacity Plan (LRCP): The FTW LRCP tool is a new Data Science enabled capability that provides sourcing teams capacity visibility on the 3-5 year time horizon. The squad is prepping for a preview of the v1.0 optimization application on March 20 @Jaycee.Pribulsky

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Digital Transformation Review (DTR): [Review forum with CFO] The team is working to finalize an initial point of view on the DTR scorecard following alignment with our finance counterparts this week on the Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC) Appropriation Requests (ARs). An updated scorecard will be ready by the March 24 due date for April submissions. @Bert.Stevens @Daniel.Solbach

Weekly Updates 3.13.23

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:13:17 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Board of Directors: The Board of Directors' meeting is this Tuesday (March 14th). Supply Chain will be providing an update on our current state and future direction. SCI features strongly in the narrative with Nike Manufacturing System (NMS) and Analytics will be giving short spotlights on some of the work in flight and the work ahead of us. Provide a proper recap once the dust of this week settles.
Team Promise: The meeting for people leaders to follow-up on our team Team Promise will be Thursday, March 23rd. If you are a people leader please prioritize this time and invest in yourself and our SCI community.
Engagement Survey: Nike's annual Engagement Survey is live and open for all ETWs until next Wednesday, March 22nd. Please take time to TAKE THE SURVEY and give this team and Nike your valuable feedback.

TEAM

@jon.frommelt @Angharad (she/her) and @Benjamin.Schoener gave an invited keynote presentation at Nike's Sport + AI Conference sharing how Fulfillment Optimization works. Feedback was very positive from the 470+ in-room and virtual attendees.New Paragraph

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Board Of Directors Prep: In-room presentation landed across Product Sourcing & Manufacturing & Consumer Fulfillment and Logistics [30 mins Venky], followed by NMS experience walk-thru [30 mins AC, @Jaycee.Pribulsky
@Ravi Guruswamy ]. Supply Chain will present to the board of directors on Tuesday 14th our Supply Chain Transformation.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation, rTrack: ❗️ Program has moved to RED due to Tech budget gap to cover P44 Q4 SOW. This risks APLA onboarding as well as design phase for inland moves. Working with Supply Chain leadership & finance to assess options. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Bert.Stevens @John.Brennan
Distribution, Windrunner WM: ❗️ Program remains red with remaining problem tickets estimated to need 40 more days to identify/execute resolution and exit Phase 1 stabilization. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Bert.Stevens @Eb

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Marketplace SimLab Squad completed 2023 baseline simulations to quantify the benefit of the RO [Replenishment Optimization] and FO [Fulfillment Optimization] parameter changes implemented in production in December/January. By comparing counterfactual simulations to actual last mile costs, the implemented changes show a $940K cost savings from Jan 1 to Feb 15 2023, which annualizes to $11.3M.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: The team delivered v1.0 of the E2E Delivery Performance Scorecard. The future state vision was deemed a high priority for the upcoming quarters. Next steps include a proposal of the future work requirements and resources needed to land new E2E metrics, framework, and connectivity.

Weekly Updates 3.6.23

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:06:51 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Nike Manufacturing System will be a spotlight topic for Venky's Supply Chain update to Nike BoD on Mar 14. The showcase is a partnership between SCI Lab, SC Analytics ( @jon.frommelt ), FW PSC ( @Jaycee.Pribulsky , @cj.green , @Ravi Guruswamy ), and SC Finance ( @Daniel.Solbach , @Dave.Myerson ), and will highlight:
The need for NMS as an accelerator of SC resilience,
What's different this time around in our approach (versus past attempts like Man Rev),
Our first area of focus (the AF1 franchise, '07 model),
The opportunity and source base impact of doing this work across key franchises like AF1, Dunk, AJ1, Blazer, and 8 others (365 Foundation)
And most importantly, the key challenges in Nike's operating model that we need to tackle to enable deployment of NMS at scale in FW
SCP continues to partner with Direct, Geos, and Technology partners on a final tech priority submission by April 7th. For the first time, teams across DSM, Direct, and Supply Chain leadership have established a prioritized view of strategic themes as a starting point for deeper prioritization. Shout out to our partners in MSC portfolio who helped to run that offense. Teams will now focus on detailed sub-initiative prioritization and reviewing initial projections of tech capacity remaining after SEC.
As a part of SCI’s continued commitment to development, we encourage everyone to participate in the Engage and Empower Program - a Supply Chain-wide initiative to renew our collective focus on individual development plans. Visit The Source and complete pathway tasks (watching videos, exploring tools and resources, drafting plans, etc.) to gain greater clarity on your career aspirations and how to share them with others.
While participation in Engage & Empower is optional, we believe it can make a meaningful difference in the quality of ongoing career conversations that we will be having together.
As an additional incentive, now through the end of March, you will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win prizes when you complete the pathways. (NIKE, Inc. employees are eligible to win; external temporary workers (ETWs) and seasonal staff are not eligible.)

TEAM

The SCI LT is holding bi weekly Drop In Sessions sessions for the team. There is no set agenda, the attendees bring their questions and topic for a candid conversation. We have held to sessions so far and are receiving positive feedback from the team. There may be an opportunity to partner with leaders in other functions in the future.
Geoff Weston, Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP) candidate from the class of 2023, will be joining the Performance Management team starting March 6th.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Board Of Directors Prep: BoD NMS build on-track ; Venky walkthrough on Fri 3/2. Next: Update "path to proliferation" panel & Barriers White Paper w/ FW + SC Fin. @Jaycee.Pribulsky @Daniel.Solbach
NMS Governance: Starting to design NMS monthly governance process, to be implemented EoQ4. Next: Sessions w/ CJ, Ravi, Amanda, Tseyin for FW input. @Jaycee.Pribulsky
SimLab AP: Aligned w/ AP WP, exploration started on how to incorporate product profit maximization and value of responsiveness into SimLab. @Kristen.Hanson

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

WM+ Playbook: A WM+ Activation Playbook (V1) is complete! The Playbook documents all phases of WM+ design, and deployment, and will allow us to improve the rollout of WM+ across our Distribution Center network. This work was brought to life through collaboration across SCI, Global, Geo, Biz and Tech teams.
Outbound Transportation Management System (oTMS) - Cortez & Oxygen & NA collab] Great collab with geo partners around the world! �� Cortez wrapped up its solution design phase, officially moving us into the build phase! Oxygen is progressing with no significant call outs. We have aligned with NA on building a value case for future transportation capabilities.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Footwear Costing: released Footwear Quotes Report iteration 1.2 which highlights the visibility of 'Undervalued' products. They also created a 'Value-View' (material and labor minutes) that provides teams will full visibility to their value-spend across Nike retail price points, enabling them to create larger costing strategies across their dimension/product family.
Global Express Lane (GEL): The team has launched the Global Controlled Allocation Visualization Dashboard to Production. This dashboard combines the outputs from two Data Science engines (Order Up To and Recommendation Engine) and four programs (NA-Fulfill, EMEA-Icons, EMEA-Jersey React, & SA-Fulfill) so that we can report on a Global View of the performance and outputs of Controlled Allocation.
The Marketplace SimLab squad ran 2023 baseline simulations to show the benefit of the RO and FO parameter changes in Dec. The implemented changes show a $940K cost savings from Jan 1 to Feb 16 2023, which annualizes to $7.6M. Also, regional fulfillment increased 4.2pp and units shipped air reduced 5 pp. The team also quantified the cost of node de-prioritization over this period, which cost Nike $720K in last-mile costs.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

E2E Delivery Performance: On track to present v1.0 of the E2E Delivery Performance Scorecard ahead of Q3 Business Review with strong engagement and participation from senior leaders on its development.
Performance Management: The Marketplace Supply Chain Q4 Metrics Development Roadmap has been published. Stores will have a Globally aligned and automated Estimated Delivery Date (EDD) and Lead Time (LT) L1 metrics for publication by the end of Q4.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Learning & Development Program (GLDP): Kicked off talent planning for Class 8 to land in new roles by their graduation in August. Class 8 & Class 9 will begin new rotations in March. Class 10 Nominations closed March 3, 2023.

Setting Employee Expectations: Improve Productivity and Engagement

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:58:28 GMT

Do you know what you want from your employees? A study from Gallup found that 50 percent of managers don’t. For this reason, only half of the people on their teams said they know exactly what’s expected of them at work.

Clarity is the biggest gift you can give yourself and others. Without it, an organization quickly escalates into chaos. As a result, this can cause all types of problems like miscommunication, lack of productivity, burnout, frustration, and low retention rates.

2. Connect Your “Why” to Your Employee’s “Why”

To feel fulfilled and work their best every day, people need to know why what they do matters. For instance, Google’s Project Aristotle, a study on what makes a great team, found that: “Finding a sense of purpose in either the work itself or the output is important for team effectiveness.”

As the head of the company, it’s your job to develop, challenge, and guide your team members toward accomplishing their full potential. Involve your human resources department to establish official job descriptions that reflect your organization’s “why.” Communicating the meaning behind your job expectations helps individuals understand how their impact extends far beyond being a source of labor. Like Jim Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of SAS Institute, says, “Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.”

Give work purpose by:

Reiterating the overall vision of the company
Tying tasks to the big picture
Describing how work positively impacts customers and clients
Setting the standard that every person plays a vital role in the business
Explaining how each team member contributes to the company’s success

3. Communicate Expectations in Person and on Paper

After defining your expectations and determining the purpose behind them, you can start meeting with employees to talk about guidelines. But for expectations to truly come across, they’ll need to be in writing, too. Handing out a hard copy of expectations gives team members something they can refer back to and store in their long-term memory.

Having a record of the conversation is also good because it limits excuses and room for interpretation. In addition to this, it holds both employees and their employers accountable for adhering to what’s been discussed. Entrepreneurs and executives with busy schedules won’t likely remember every conversation they’ve had with their team. For this reason, putting clear expectations into writing helps you keep track of what has or hasn’t been communicated.

Verify expectations by:

Having a team meeting before starting new projects
Providing clarity around each individual’s role
Discussing responsibilities for every team member
Clearly describing metrics of success
Providing a paper copy of what was covered

4. Be Consistent

If a CEO operates in an inconsistent manner, they set the expectation that this behavior is acceptable. Behavioral statistician Joseph Folkman shares one of his studies with Forbes, finding this type of leadership creates a perception of lacking good judgment, being untrustworthy, failing to achieve goals, and resisting improvement. Clearly, this can have a devastating effect on a company. For instance, inconsistency lowers productivity, morale, and followers.

While most CEOs and entrepreneurs move fast, it’s important for your team to feel a sense of stability. Trusting teams can’t develop unless a leader creates an environment of consistency. Changing it up too much or too often breeds stress and distrust—making people feel like the company isn’t on solid ground.

Create a stable work environment by:

Modeling strong leadership qualities for the team
Practicing change management
Honoring your word (for example, providing a raise if you said you would)
Seeing new initiatives through to completion
Using the words “work emergency” and “rush deadline” only when they truly apply
Eliminating workflows that cause employees to “hurry up and wait”

5. Create Rhythms

As best-selling leadership author John C. Maxwell says: “The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” Structuring your workday with good habits and pre-determined routines is one of the best strategies to use as you develop a successful business.

Not only does time management organize an entrepreneur’s or executive’s schedule, it also helps with setting employee expectations. For instance, say your company has a meeting on Mondays at 9:00 a.m. Because this is a weekly event, there’s automatically an expectation that team members need to be on time and energetically present every Monday morning.

Continue developing a great organizational work flow by:

Setting regular times for daily or weekly roundups
Explaining ahead of time what will be covered (this increases engagement and participation)
Starting each meeting with a quick overview of the agenda
Communicating your schedule, so employees can self-manage, but also know when they can check-in
Sticking to decided upon work rhythms as a means of creating company habits

6. Establish Realistic Timelines

As a leader, it’s your job to create high-quality results. Unmanageable deadlines produce poor working conditions that cause stress, burnout , anxiety, and hostility. While there might be certain times employees need to speed up production, this type of workflow shouldn’t be the status quo.

More often than not, grinding through projects only negatively impacts your customers, your employees, and you. For example, launching a full website and funnel in three weeks isn’t a realistic expectation. Firstly, the timeframe doesn’t match the amount of work required. Secondly, some team members will miss their deadline. Lastly, it leaves no room for a quality check to ensure everything is working properly. In the end, an impossible-to-meet date of completion will leave employees frazzled and customers disappointed.

Develop the conditions for great work by:

Using discovery exercises with key players to set attainable timelines
Consulting with the project manager
Having a timeline discussion before contractors or employees begin working
Developing an open channel for regular communication with team leaders
Getting updates on roadblocks or changes
Extending deadlines as new tasks or initiatives get added

7. Affirm Expectations are Clear and Agreed Upon

Setting expectations for employees is a part of the relationship-building process. Instead of providing a list of guidelines and responsibilities, turn this meeting into a conversation between two people. One way to do this is by letting team members know they’re welcome to ask questions, voice concerns, and suggest ideas throughout the discussion.

Before leaving the meeting, reaffirm what’s expected. Then, ask employees if they’re okay with being accountable for this. Be open to listening to team members if they express they might not be able to meet the measures you’ve set. For instance, maybe the deadline for a new task conflicts with another project they’re working on. If there are problems, work through them with the employee before leaving the meeting so you both have clarity moving forward.

Ensure everyone is on the same page by:

Addressing any confusion, hesitation, or resistance
Giving employees the opportunity to discuss their thoughts
Asking team members if they feel comfortable being accountable for these expectations
Setting up a time to check back in on progress

What Does Your Team Expect from You?

As Steve Jobs once said, “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” This means going above and beyond when it comes to demonstrating the expectations you set. If you ask your employees to give 100 percent, that means you need to be an example of giving 120 percent.

Just like employers have expectations of their employees, employees have expectations of their employer. When setting these, don’t forget to communicate your plan for showing up as a leader. Discuss the role you’ll be playing to help them achieve their goals and performance expectations. Whether providing resources and support or building them up as leaders through mentorship , make it clear you’re there to ensure they have everything they need to succeed.

SCI Huddle Recap 2.28.23

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:25:43 GMT

Hi Team,

Thank you to all who were able to join our SCI Huddle yesterday. As always, we had some fun tunes bringing us into this meeting - see if you can find the easter egg on our website to access our team playlists! To kick off our huddle we shared a bit on where we are at with CSR (Corporate Strategy Reset) and AOP (Annual Operating Plan). Thank you to all the teammates who are working diligently in those processes right now. I know that work can be tiring and I for one am very appreciative of your dedication to keep our team on the right path forward.

Weekly Updates (on the website ) to include passdowns from LT in addition to cross-functional sharing. We’ve added a section this week in the updates called ‘SCI LT PASSDOWNS’ so you know right where to find them.
Meeting with all people managers to reiterate importance of rest, recovery, and share best practices for 90-day conversations. If you’re a people manager, look for an invite coming soon and please do your best to commit to making time for this.
Continue going deeper on our strategic narrative to grow stronger cross-functional connections. This will include an upcoming sharing series to get to know our SCI Geo teams better too.

Please help hold us accountable to delivering against our Team Promise by providing feedback to your manger and/or directly to any of the LT. We genuinely want to hear how you all are doing and how we can help.

As always, thank you.

SCI Spotlight | rTrack: Real Time Transportation Visibility Solution

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:03:32 GMT

What is rTrack?

rTrack provides real-time shipment visibility to enable proactive and agile decision-making from origin to final destination, fueling our ability to manage inventory deployment and allocation in market to meet consumer demand where and when they want it.

Right now rTrack has officially moved from Hypercare to Run the Business (RTB) . Hypercare is the period immediately following the launch of a new product or feature, during which the product team closely monitors and addresses any issues or bugs that arise. The rTrack team is pleased to report that they have successfully navigated this critical phase following rTrack’s business activation and are sprinting forward to achieve their goals and cross the finish line.

The completion of this first lap means that Super Users in NA and EMEA now have access to ocean and air data for all newly created shipments going forward. Those features include:

Port Intel and Ocean Analytics Dashboards
ETAs to Port of Discharge
Improved Data Quality
Real-time Ocean Data
Trans-shipment Visibility

The global Supply Chain Product Management team will partner with rTrack Super Users to learn and build from the MVP as they plan future laps of enhancements and user adoption, first in NA and EMEA, then eventually APLA and GC. As Nike continues its trajectory of $50B in sales and Consumer Direct Acceleration to serve consumers through 50% digital channels, Integrated Supply Chain Visibility is a foundational capability to achieve these goals. Visibility is created by combining data elements from multiple sources to unlock operational efficiencies, improve cost, enable proactive and agile decision making and keep consumers informed within complex supply chains.

To learn more about rTrack, catch the recording of the roadshow event:

Nike has partnered with industry leader Project44 to build rTrack on a powerful real-time transportation visibility platform called Movement . Learn more about features in these product demos for Multimodal Tracking , Order Visibility and Ocean Analytics .

Follow our  rTrack Confluence Site  for more resources and information!

Have questions or ideas? Reach out to the Global Product Team via rTrack@nike.com

Weekly Updates 2.27.23

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:33:35 GMT

SCI LT PASSDOWNS

Please help hold us accountable to delivering against our Team Promise by providing providing feedback to your manger and/or directly to any of the LT. We genuinely want to hear how you all are doing and how we can help.
As many of you have heard, last week there was an announcement of technology leadership changes. Just like you, we have more questions then answers. What we do know is that the work ahead of us stays the same. Please continue to partner with Tech teammates as we work through AOP and have extra grace for any teammate that may be experiencing extra frustration, concussion and/or stress.
SCI teams are working closely with partners the Business and Tech to run a coordinated FY24 AOP offense over the next month (targeting a final submission in early to mid-April). Teams have started to align on a common list of sub-initiatives and a prioritization framework and will partner over the next few weeks to establish a unified 1-N priority list for Marketplace Supply Chain. The Product Supply Chain Tech AOP offense is slightly different given Product Supply Chain CSR work underway. Leadership is actively aligning on approach to inform needed Product Supply Chain digital investments as a fast follow to CSR.

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS Board Of Directors Prep: All activities are tracking for 3/15 Board of Directors meeting. Next step is Version 1 of the experience buildout/walkthrough on 3/3. @Jaycee.Pribulsky
External Research Partnerships Reset: Drove clarity on role of each partner (Gartner, Zero 100, Plug n Play) against our Supply Chain strategy. Each partner has an outcome based focus area and will help us measure ROI. @Venky Alagirisamy (He/Him/His)

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Dynamic Marketplace Allocation: Pilot scheduled to go-live in Mexico on May 4th! Scope is to drive a 12 Weeks of Supply (WOS) marketplace target for all FW SKUs at plant. Expected outcomes is improved inventory health and increased inventory productivity (full price sales) as a result of dynamically assigning / allocation supply across channels based on improved marketplace signals. @John.Brennan
Compliance Management: Launched new ratings process & system for Wastewater with FFC (FairFactory Clearing House) reducing cycle time from initial report review to rating announcement from over 20 days to less than 1 week for 90% of assessments (this is a regulatory compliance requirement for Nike). @Marine.Graham (She/Her)
WMS+: Warehouse Management implementations for Windrunner and Cortez are reporting red. Windrunner is reporting red as go-live timelines are delayed by roughly 2 weeks. Cortez is reporting red due to testing lags and tech plan slippage. Get-to-green for both programs dependent on updated Tech timelines. No additional leadership support requested at this time. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Eb @Bert.Stevens
rTrack [Transportation visibility] is red with Q4 SOW forecast being greater than available Tech budget. Without SOW signed and budget aligned, potential to impact Q4 work (APLA ocean scope). No additional leadership support requested at this time. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @John.Brennan @Bert.Stevens

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Replenishment Optimization: the team completed expansion of Regional Service Center (RSC) Rapid Store Replenishment to 63 NSO stores across NA. @Nicole.Zukowski
Apparel Full Case Recommendation: In partnership with the Global MSC and Sustainability team, the team delivered recommendations to standardize apparel fleece case pack sizes. The recommendation based on work form Jason Teno (an MIT LGO participant) used Distribution Center data from Shelby in NA and Court in EMEA. @Kristen.Hanson @Bert.Stevens @Marine.Graham (She/Her)
SimLab: The team developed a last mile cost module which estimates the cost of each digital unit shipped with >90% accuracy at an aggregate level based on source node, destination zip code, carrier and service level. This was a key unlock to standardize the way we calculate last mile costs of actual historic orders and simulated orders, making the two comparable for analysis. It also helps us capture the value of the changes made in Replenishment Optimization and Fulfilment Optimization when compared against the baseline simulation. @Daniel.Solbach @Nicole.Zukowski
For Deployment Optimization , Nike has not yet received o9 output despite a December original plan. This creates a tight timeline to assess output quality prior to April go/no-go decision. @Raman Bukkapatnam

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Consumer Promise Review: Product Supply Chain (PSC) February Consumer Promise Review will be mail out as we prepare for March re-set. Repurposed for SEC MANA (Marketplace Activation - North America) update. @Kristen.Hanson @Jaycee.Pribulsky @Mark Griffie @Marine.Graham (She/Her)

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Supply Chain University: EMEA leadership sponsored a week of in person Supply Chain University classes including weekend sessions at ELC. This was the first time weekend shift team members could experience the training and it was very well received by them. A return visit is planned for June to offer the course to night shift team members. @Eb

TEAM

Sophia Cox has decided to pursue professional passions outside of Nike, sad to see her leave us and thankful for her incredible impact on Nike & our teams. David Ringe will stepping in as Interim Sr. Director Supply Chain Product Management.

Zero100 | Five Megatrends Driving Manufacturing Automation Now

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:34:14 GMT

10 billion potential customers over the coming decades means manufacturing needs to massively scale to keep up with growing demand. But, the stream of young workers flocking to cities like Shenzhen is slowing down. And even if India briefly steps into the gap left by an aging China, the same dynamic will play out as humans get richer and older.

Automation is rising because low-cost labor is no longer the path to scaling manufacturing and business growth.

Government support for “strategic” technologies will subsidize the cost of engineering analyses and simulations needed to roll out new automation as well as breakthroughs in material science ( biosynthetics , car bon materials). Not to mention, the explosion in IoT and AI providing huge data sets and ever better learning techniques to refine and scale new manufacturing systems.

Automation is getting cheaper as it gets better.

Expectations for Decent Work

This is more than just the rise of smarter unions in the US. It is also the sense of disenchantment seen in “ Lying Flat ” movements among the young in east Asia and declining labor force participation post-COVID. Many social commentators see a permanent shift in how people feel about work.

Some people want to grow, learn, and have an impact. For those, building a bridge from blue-collar to white-collar work is an opportunity to develop talent and accelerate automation. These “machine whisperers” will be pioneers in debugging the systems we roll out and they will respond to rising pay, recognition, and more challenge. Other people want a simple, reliable, respectful job so they can go home and be with family at the end of the day.

Automation serves both kinds of people with higher labor productivity which sustains better pay and career paths.

TikTok Supply Chains and the Fickle Consumers

For all the technology we’ve poured into supply chains, it is nothing compared to the massive digitization of demand chains. iPhones, ecommerce, and social media are much larger digital forces in our lives than the robots and MES systems in our factories.

TikTok has around 1.6 billion users spending on average 11 minutes per session watching 20-30 second videos from millions of influencers. It is currently the hottest trend in new media marketing, but it is unlikely to be last. This means that new products, new channels, and new user experiences are constantly in demand, and with ever shorter product lifecycles.

Automation can be the key. Scaling production of a hit product while its hot is impossible if we have to hire workers to add capacity every time but loading a new CAD file or formula into a smart machine isn’t. Automating manufacturing for agility is no easy task, but it is the only way to keep up with accelerating consumer demand volatility.

Weekly Updates 2.20.23

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:59:05 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Automated Multi-unit Packaging (AMP): Solutions brief shared with MSC Global LT + EMEA MSC LT on 2/15. Next: Meeting w/ Bart Deroo & Kurt van Donink on next steps. @Bert.Stevens
Materials Resilience Optimization (MRO) Activation: Aligned w/ MSM LT that SimLab will prioritize MRO build in FY24Q1. @Mark Griffie

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Nike Digital Product: Moving forward Nike Digital Product team will prioritize their current Supply Chain work through the Supply Chain product team under Sophia Cox to ensure we optimize our use and priority of tech capacity. @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His) @Eb @Nicole.Zukowski @John.Brennan @Stanley Chang
Outbound Transportation Management System (oTMS): Successful Functional Design workshop for Oxygen Transportation completed where we compiled all business requirements for Wholesale, Retail and Digital. Newsletter with details was sent out to leadership to share the team's success. @John.Brennan
Multi-node: Factory Ops teams have raised concerns about the forecasted increase in purchase order diverts due to ISC [Inbound Sortation Center] for NA, which will require an increase in manual labor capacity to support. Devising plan and will align Product and Marketplace Supply Chain leadership in early-to-mid March on a go-forward plan @Raman Bukkapatnam @Nicole.Zukowski @Kristen.Hanson @Jaycee.Pribulsky

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Special Trade Program: Analytics is partnering with with Global Trade and Customs to build an Operations Report, (expected Q3 delivery) that allows them to better manage trade costs. Initial estimates indicate that Special Trade Programs (STP) could save Nike in excess of $600M annually in trade and customs fees. @Bert.Stevens
Transportation: The team has enhanced APLA Korea's ability to track and trace shipments out of their DCs, reducing transportation delays and giving the territory better ability to react to delayed shipments. @John.Brennan
Fulfillment Optimization: Go-live in EMEA is at risk. Originally slated for launch in Q4, dependent technology development work in Order Recon is currently deprioritized due to competitions SEC development. The teams are actively exploring options and timing conversations. @Eb @Madhavan.Vasantham (He/Him/His)

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Consumer Promise Review (CPR) Forum Evolution: Shifted to a more consistent and focused Marketplace (MSC) CPR to drive more action on barriers to targets, including recaps for accountability. Product Supply Chain (PSC) CPR will be moving in this direction also. @Nicole.Zukowski @Eb @John.Brennan @Stanley Chang
Digital Transformation Review (DTR): Kicking off work in partnership with finance to understand the investments (past and present) made in building the Marketplace side of the Digital First Supply Chain. This work will allow us to speak to what we have delivered so far and demystify how our investments are inter-depended and/or independent. @Daniel.Solbach

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP): Nominations for Class 10 launched this week for high-potential U-Bands to join the program this fall.

Weekly Updates 2.10.23

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:34:40 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

NMS BoD Prep: Attached is weekly. This week walked Mark Parker through NMS room and captured great feedback as we prepare for the BoD in March. @Jaycee.Pribulsky
Apparel Responsive White Paper: Started an 8 week sprint with apparel team on responsive WP. Current focus on designing situation and complication. @Kristen.Hanson to share as we progress. ��

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Oxygen: Transportation teams at WHQ this week to document oTMS business requirements and processes in support of Oxygen phase 2 timelines. @John.Brennan
@Bert.Stevens ��
AP SPOT (Source Planning Optimization Tool) : Acceptance rate for SPOT generated sourcing options has moved up to 68% from 45% a couple of quarters ago ensuring healthier utilization across factory partners. This validates the success of the enhancements, allowing the business to rely on the tool. The rest of the FY will be focused on continuous improvements with a goal to hit a targeted acceptance rate of 80%. @Kristen.Hanson ��

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

The Materials Costing Squad released the Footwear Bill of Materials (BOM) Comparison dashboard. This product enables users to see changes in the BOM throughout a product's lifetime. This helps them to ensure that factories have made the necessary adjustments requested and that the BOM is aligned between Nike and the factory. @Mark Griffie @Jaycee.Pribulsky ��
Simulation Lab: 10YR Sourcing Module application is being demoed to FW Leadership on 2/10. The presentation is led by the Footwear Strategic Sourcing team and highlights how this simulation capability is helping FTW move towards it's north star of being able to objectively design a network to balance across cost, resiliency, responsibility and responsiveness objectives. @Jaycee.Pribulsky ��

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

CPR: Aligned SCI GEO leaders to new evolving structure of CPR focused on barriers to achieve service target. Pre-read deck for Marketplace Supply Chain will be sent out on Monday. @Eb @Nicole.Zukowski @John.Brennan @Stanley Chang @Bert.Stevens ��
Manufacturing Index Transition: The MI has been successfully transitioned to the business teams for FY23 Q3 publication. ��
Enterprise KPIs: Guidance provided to global Finance team on Supply Chain KPI’s development impacted due to cuts in ED&A funding. This is will be visible at ELT that some requested KPI's are on hold until funded. @Daniel.Solbach ��

SCI Huddle Recap 1.25.23

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:22:59 GMT

Hello SCI!

I wasn’t able to be there but I heard we had quite the huddle. While it wasn't intentional, I’m happy things went a little sideways. It was an illustration of how many of us are feeling. Global SCI is one year old, we are carrying a ton of momentum, a lot of things are going right, and we are maxing ourselves out. I’m not sure if there could be a more public or poignant display of being overstretched.

However, I hear Doug received an incredible outpour of support, encouragement, advice, and well-natured jokes. Your response makes me smile. You all created beauty out of that moment and it makes me so proud to be a part of this team. WE ARE SCI and together we are changing our supply chain. It isn't easy and we are all going to stumble sometimes.

Weekly Updates 2.4.23

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:38:12 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP Responsive WP: Working towards V3 of WP due to Kristen by 2/6. Next step: Kristen, AC, Sunny mtg on 2/3 re: NMS AP; part of the discussion will be realigning on scope & work plan for AP Resp WP.
Automated Multiunit Packing (AMP):
Drove clarity next steps a) scope = EMEA only, b) need to validate if we are proving that AMP is needed or if we are assessing best solutions. Next step: draft a 5-pg AMP solution options research brief by 2/10 for 2/14 mtg w/ EMEA.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Transportation: SCP Transportation offsite to review marketplace strategy, build product vision & strategy, discuss key design decisions and start drafting an integrated roadmap.
Remote Work: Initial reaction on the Remote Work program is positive. Listen and Learn sessions begin this week to ensure more voices are heard as we create a baseline for how the team is feeling about engagement with the option to move to fully remote work environments. LT is working through guiding principles and Enterprise partnership with other BPM leaders in order to have one voice re: remote ways of working.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Functional Development Situation and Complication: No significant updates this week.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

SimLab: The team is developing a "cost estimation" simulation module leveraging recently landed shipment invoice TRAX data. This module is a necessary input for SimLab to capture EBIT. Until now, Nike has not had a way to accurately estimate the total cost to ship a parcel.
AP Multi-sourcing:
The team has progressed toward "north star" multi-source strategy recommendations with the Sourcing team. Analytics allows direct comparison between expected and proposed north star performance. Current results suggest north star can reduce costly late in-season multi-source developments by 40-50%, while reducing the strategic multi-source volume by 25-35%.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Feb Reporting: Process for GOFO and MOFO simplified in partnership with Global Finance – one deck will be submitted vs separate decks. Completing the alignment and final adjustments of the new scorecards format in PSC to align reporting across GSC.
E2E Delivery Performance:
Geo Workshops took place this week, and insights were presented at the Global MPO Onsite.

Weekly Updates 1.28.23

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:32:52 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Nike x Zero100 Event= [Art of the Impossible]: The event took place on Tuesday and Wednesday and received great feedback from invited execs, Zero100, Nike attendees. This is the first time Nike and Zero100 have collaborated on an event like this and the plan is to make it an annual event going forward.
The team's initial take was that we are facing many of the same problems as other supply chain leaders and we are asking the right questions. In many cases, we are actually ahead of the pack and driving more innovative and creative thinking.
Written recaps of the sessions will be sent out to the SCLT once they are drafted - targeting the end of Feb.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Product Supply Chain H2 Tech Funding: Finalized alignment with Technology & Business leadership regarding prioritization and funding for Traceability, Compliance and STT (Sourcing Transfer Tracking) through the remainder of H2. @Marine.Graham (She/Her)
Approved For Remote Work: SCP was approved as eligible for Nike’s remote workforce this week! This is a critical step for talent attraction and retention. A big shout out to @Dolores.Cranley who ensured this conversation got needed attention even amidst a challenging process over several months.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Functional Development Situation and Complication: No update - Tracking to end of February update on roadmap.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Responsible Supply Chain: The team has created a new view to showcase the most common non-compliance reason codes across all vendors with trending history. This will be a big unlock for our stakeholders as they have never had access to this type of detail before. @Marine.Graham (She/Her)
MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO): We hosted 50 MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) students on Nike campus. The students had three-part agenda - learning about footwear development, sustainability, and supply chain innovation & analytics with tours and guest speakers.

SUPPLY CHAIN DEPLOYMENT

Feb CPR: Guidance and alignment with Geos and functions took place. Prioritizing Deep dive topics - for MSC & update on Speed offense by EMEA. @Eb
E2E Delivery Performance: The first E2E Supply Chain Delivery Performance SteerCo took place w/ x-functional SLT to align on the problem statement and upcoming value drops. @Matthew.Tuski

TEAM

Happy 1st Birthday SCI: This month marks the 1st birthday of SCI as well as the first time we have our full LT in place with leaders for each of SCI's Platforms. We dedicated this month's SCI LT Pitstop [workday] to reflecting on the last year and where we want to go from here.

Zero100 | The Path with Andrew Corner

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:31:41 GMT

Zero100 is a new community for operations leaders and their teams, exploring the intersection of supply chain and technology in the climate era. Their mission is to create a Zero Percent Carbon, 100% Digital supply chain. To deliver the Zero100 mission, they aim to unite cross-industry supply chain leaders to move forward, faster, together. To foster this acceleration, they're building a community-based experience and research platform that houses original content, exclusive events, and curated connections. These offerings help Zero100 members accelerate critical digital and carbon initiatives, while also helping improve their talent development and supply chain credibility. On Zero100’s series THE PATH, we hear from top supply chain executives to learn about their career journey: where they started, the path they took through supply chain, and reflections on how their career connects to and impacts some of the biggest challenges facing the world today. This episode is on our very own VP, Andrew Corner.

Weekly Updates 1.20.23

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:54:52 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

Nike x Zero100 Event: Final preparations underway for 01/24-01/25 execution (LINKS: agenda , attendees ). Next step: Finalize minute-by-minute roles & responsibilities, and dress rehearsal plan.
NMS Proliferation: Completed FW Big-4 TWN/KOR trip. Discussions will inform next version of “Need for / barriers to” WP. Next step: Finalize exec summary of trip & share out by Th, 1/26.
SimLab: Reviewed updated FW scenarios and AP scenarios w/ respective Sourcing teams. Presented select AP scenarios at AP Sourcing 2030 Planning mtg. Next step: Present updated FY30 sourcing strategy to FW SC LT on 2/22.
Materials Resilience Optimization Activation: Set up discovery session w/ Chainalytics & MSM to assess how they conduct similar modeling for vertical retailers and if they can help accelerate manual modeling effort of the first 135 FW Priority A+ materials.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

DMA (Dynamic Marketplace Allocation): Dynamic Marketplace Allocation is LIVE in EMEA! The first allocation run will occur over the weekend. @Sarah.Havard
Replenishment Optimization: Supply Chain Product Management is partnering with APLA MPO to help design their Stores Replenishment Optimization tool and align with similar needs across geos. @Vivek.Dixit

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Apparel Long Range Capacity Plan (AP LRCP) development is underway to create an enhanced model to better serve our customers as well as support simulation use cases.
The SimLab Marketplace Squad are supporting the NA MPO team with a set of optimal parameters in Replenishment Optimization + Fulfillment Optimization by running Jan-Feb simulations. New scenarios are testing the hypothesis - lower SKU velocity threshold leads to increase SKU breadth and regional fulfillment at Regional Service Center's @hugo.mora

TEAM

SimLab Team: Shout out to the team for sharing a SimLab demo in the Supply Chain Connect All Hand Meeting! High five to @Saj (he/him) , @Daniel Crawford , @jae.jung , @aurora.owens she/her/hers , @Michael Brown and @kyle.balog

Weekly Updates 1.13.23

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 22:32:02 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

This week with FTW engineering & FTW PM teams on FW Big-4 proliferation research trip . Next step: Use trip insights to inform approach on Measure | Standardize | Proliferate
Nike X Zero100 Event: Art of the Possible: How to Automate and Scale Digital Manufacturing Networks . Completed Nike in-room content review & site walkthrough. Pre-reads to go out to finalized 25 executives . Next step: Develop min-by-min master RoS, finalize breakout groups, send out pre-reads & invites. Invite for reception & dinner sent to USA based SCLT. Hope you can come!

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

WM+ Project Oxygen [APLA]: The product team demoed Inbound end-to-end functionality and established a regular sync between ED&A and reporting teams to integrate work-streams into overall timelines.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Functional Development Situation and Complication: V1 draft of Functional Development Case For Change (situation and complication) in review with Bruce Henderson & Omar Douglas to ensure that it is integrated as part of the wider HR people strategy.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Dynamic Marketplace Allocation: The team is celebrating going live in both Mexico and EMEA this week. Further preparation ahead of EMEA Blue Ribbon Apparel for EMEA go-live which is planned for 1/16th. There is an estimated EBIT impact of $3M. For Mexico, the Scenario Planning tool will recommend release rules & allocation priorities to maximize the utilization of each day's delivery capacity while ensuring a stable flow of capacity utilization. ~14M units flow through Mexico DC under the manual process today.
Materials Sourcing & Manufacturing: The team has demoed its enterprise analytics view of consolidated Material Inventory data to leaders within Material Planning. The team received good feedback and is set to guide the MVP for an end of Q4 launch.

TEAM

Kyle Roozen starts as Sr Dir, SCI Value Stream Delivery role, focusing initially on NMS program management ensuring we create a framework to PDCA. Start date: 1/23.
Sukie Ewald started this week as the new Sr Director of Supply Chain Deployment. Initial focus will be on-boarding the performance management team [Rahul & team]. Long-term she will also lead our collective offense across portfolio & prioritization.

Weekly Updates 1.6.23

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:07:22 GMT

SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & INNOVATION LAB

AP Responsiveness WP: WP v1 reviewed with Kristen Hanson, focused on Nike's current AP Responsive models; more research needed on Competitor Offerings and Consumer Needs. Next step: WP v2 to Kristen by Jan 17
Zero100 Event: Nike & external attendees, pre-reads, content, and approach aligned with Venky. Next step: Finalization of Nike's in-room content & venue visit next week.

SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

WM+ @ Windrunner: Validated decision on Phase 2 (outbound digital & cross dc consolidation) for go-live date (April ‘23) and scope by EMEA & Global leadership teams.
WM+ @ Cortez: Finalized September go-live date based on updated tech and delivery plan.

SUPPLY CHAIN FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Case For Change: On track to review the Functional Development Case For Change (situation and complication) with Venky, Omar, Bruce, and AC on 1/23. The next few weeks will be spent collaborating on content and edits with internal and external (Gartner, Zero100, etc.) experts. Future updates will be provided when relevant.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Dynamic Marketplace Allocation: The team is working to enable (1) 1/16 GO-LIVE for Blue Ribbon Apparel DC in EMEA with an estimated $3M EBIT impact and (2) 1/30 GO-LIVE for an updated Shelby model for Shelby with an estimated $3M EBIT impact.
Deployment Optimization: The team shared an executive readout on NASC strategy, new ISC and how analytics is helping. The squad (1) completed the initial model for factory to DC lead time predictions; expanded the data model to include port to DC and STO, 2) continued the work on Segmentation and Swift forecast Analysis, and 3) started the evaluation on O9 Supply Chain Solver (SCS) solution for Pre-GAC and Post-GAC.

TEAM

SCI is very much looking forward to @Sukie (she/her) officially joining the team as well as joining us on campus next week!
Sukie is our Sr. Dir Deployment overseeing both portfolio and performance management. Her onboarding will start next Monday and we couldn't be more excited to get her in the mix and up to speed ASAP.

Top 100 Supply Chain Leaders of 2022: #6 Venkatesh Alagirisamy

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:18:43 GMT

Supply Chain Magazine is an online community for the industry, welcoming those working across supply chain, procurement, logistics, sustainability and technology. Their daily web articles range from interviews with business leaders and innovators to news features and analysis. Every year, Supply Chain Magazine releases their Top 100 Supply Chain Leaders list that compiles CEOs, Co-Founders, and disruptive innovators. Why? Because heading up a supply chain in such challenging times is an onerous job, regardless of company and sector. Supply chain managers need to be strategists, technologists, people leaders - - all-round miracle workers, really. It's a job that requires foresight, and steel, and an almost instinctive knowledge of what is likely to work -- and not. A crystal ball is what most businesses need today, as they seek to move products in a world riven by geopolitical uncertainty, rampant inflation and ongoing post-pandemic disruption. But a good CSCO is the next best thing. Nike SCI is honored that

SCI Huddle Recap 12.6.22

Danielle.Roegner@nike.com (Danielle Roegner) — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:58:21 GMT

Hi Team,

As we close out 2022 and the first year of Global SCI, I’m reminded of all the ways I am thankful for all of you. We’ve set out to innovate our supply chain, and we are already making a positive impact on Nike’s future because of your work and your individual contributions. Our leadership team has put together a video for you as we reflect on the a few highlights of the past year and what we’re hopeful for next year, I hope you’ll give it a watch!

I also want to thank Karen Davies, her Supply & Inventory Innovation team, Sophia Cox, and her SC Product Management team for presenting their team narratives in our last huddle . It was a great way for us to learn more about their work and how we all connect together as part of one SCI team. If you were unable to attend, you just can’t miss the incredible dance video the Product Management team shared!

Lastly, I want to remind all of you to refocus this holiday season on what matters most to you individually, whether that be taking time off to travel, spending extra time with family, or whatever helps you rest and reset. You’ve all earned it.

Hope you all have a very happy holiday!

Cheers,

Dolores

Doug

Jon

Karen

Sophia

Sunny

Suzy

PM applauds Nike’s contributions to Vietnamese economy

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 03:44:57 GMT

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Chief Operating Officer of Nike, Inc., Andy Campion in Hanoi on December 1, speaking highly of the firm’s contributions to Vietnam’s exports and job creation in the recent past.

The host leader noted with satisfaction the vigorous growth in Vietnam - US relations , including bilateral trade rising over 18% year on year to top 105 billion USD in the first 11 months of 2022. The US has been the largest export market of Vietnam for many years while Vietnam currently ranks ninth in the world and first in ASEAN among trading partners of the US. Many major technology firms from the North American country such as Apple, Dell, GE, Intel, and Microsoft has invested in the Southeast Asian nation, helping promote Vietnam’s role in regional and global supply chains, he went on.

PM Chinh asked Nike to increase applying scientific and technological advances and achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to its production and management activities in Vietnam, while assisting the country to improve the management capacity, give policy advice, train human resources, boost green growth and digital transformation, and develop a circular economy, thereby helping Vietnam build an independent and self-reliant economy with extensive, substantive, and effective integration into the world and deeper engagement in global supply chains.

Vietnam is building a fair, transparent, and stable business climate, effectively dealing with administrative procedures, and reducing input costs for enterprises and investors. It views the foreign invested sector as an important part of the economy and hopes foreign firms will make more investment, especially in the fields matching Vietnam’s demand and enterprises’ strengths, he affirmed.

Agreeing on his host’s cooperation suggestions, Campion informed about the sportswear producer’s operations in Vietnam with enhanced application of technology and automation, adding it produces about 600 million pairs of footwear each year, half of which are made in Vietnam, and that half of the materials for the company’s global supply chains are also sourced from the country.

He highly valued Vietnam’s human resources, saying the staff members in Vietnam are the ones with the best skills in the world of Nike.

He also spoke highly of the Vietnamese economy’s resilience and thanked the Government and PM for their active and effective assistance for the firm’s establishments to quickly and safely resume operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COO also expressed his belief that the country will play an increasingly important role in global supply chains.

Set up in 1995, the Nike Vietnam Co. Ltd has more than 200 partner factories in 20 provinces and cities, along with hundreds of businesses joining its supply chain, indirectly providing jobs for nearly 500,000 local workers.

Source: Vietnam+

Research Spotlight | Partner Ecosystems

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:35:45 GMT

Competing with the help of a partner ecosystem is essential in today’s complex and competitive supply chain. CSCOs can use this research to identify the different ecosystem models they should be investing in and determine the best digital strategy to achieve new value creation through the ecosystem.

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