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Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

GlobalTranz

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

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The Digital Supply Chain: Making The Leap With A Ball and Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

If the supply chain has high volumes and high demand volatility (like vaccines, suntan lotion, bathing suits, seasonal foods), creating an efficient supply chain with the lowest cost and reducing costs in continuous improvement programs without attention to the balance with customer service and inventory is detrimental. Barrier #3.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. For the past four years, as we have done our work, we have tracked Novo Nordisk’s continued improvement against the pharmaceutical peer group. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015.

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Continuous Improvement: Is Your 3PL Writing the Check?

Consumer Goods Logistics

Continuous improvement is an important desire for users of 3PL services. Top 3PLs, and in fact most 3PLs, do a solid job establishing metrics and measuring progress against these metrics over time. In fact, lack of proactivity continues to come up on 3PL user surveys as an industry shortfall.

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3PL Metrics: Do Retail Suppliers Measure Success the Wrong Way?

Consumer Goods Logistics

If you are a user of third-party logistics (3PL) services, you know that 3PLs tend to have a metric for just about everything – productivity, accuracy, timeliness, costs…. 3PL metrics are used as a barometer of performance and to inform continuous improvement programs.

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The 10 Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2021

Unleashed

For example, industries like transportation and logistics, technology or consumer goods will focus more on supplier collaboration. That’s where Procurement Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come into play. Procurement metrics and KPIs allow organisations to measure results and guide best practice performance.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #1

Supply Chain Trend

Jim : My first involvement with S&OP started in the late 1990’s, while working for a large commercial US bakery, a division of a large multi-brand consumer goods company in Chicago. Also, building in S&OP process metrics, not just business operating metrics is critical to success.

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