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ToolsGroup Drives Continued Innovation with Enhancements to JustEnough Retail Planning & Execution

ToolsGroup

With the ability to use “stock-mix optimization” via stock-to-service curves, retail planners can work towards meeting a service level that takes into account the risk of the market and the uncertainty that they are facing in their planning. Read the blog → Receipt Metrics in Top-Down Planning With v2023.1, Every retailer is unique.

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Transversing the Paradox River

Supply Chain Shaman

Leaders in building supply chain capabilities on graph technologies are failing to drive break through process innovation. With the low investment in network technologies and the slowing of innovation, the primary networks are being desecrated by private equity firms. Innovation is slowing. Innovation.

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

This post focuses on my failure to use design thinking to spark innovation with supply chain teams and my lessons learned. Today, six years later, I reflect on the gaps of the methodology as it applies to supply chain innovation. Remember the need for goal clarity, rules, and clear metrics in my opening paragraph?

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Don’t Wait to Innovate: 3 Key Benefits of Causal Forecasting

Logility

A traditional forecasting model might look at last year’s sales metrics to predict this year’s. With Logility’s demand planning software, you can integrate causal forecasting into your supply chain strategy , driving down costs while ensuring you’re always ready to meet customer demand.

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The 10 Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2021

Unleashed

A robust procurement strategy should explain how an organisation seeks to optimise the businesses external spend, procurement costs and other value contributions such as product innovation, spend reduction and process efficiency. Creating new opportunities by investing in supplier partnerships and joint innovations.

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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. The goal is to keep inventory levels at a minimum to meet customer needs. 10 Soft Metric Considerations in Measuring Supply Chain Performance. Inventory measurement is critical and it is money after all in that it took a capital expense to procure.

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Trying to Push Content Above the Noise

Supply Chain Shaman

We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. Instead, the focus is on customer-focused innovation and leadership. We talk about complexity, but do not measure the impact on forecastability.

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