Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Avetta, a provider of supply chain risk management, launched Avetta Financial Risk, a tool for evaluating and monitoring the financial health of your supply chain, providing detailed financial metrics and ratings for accurate supplier evaluation.

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SCM Research

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Our new article, titled Accounting for External Turbulence of Logistics Organizations via Performance Measurement Systems (Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 6), is out now. The article was co-authored by Andreas Bühler, Carl Marcus Wallenburg and me. Wallenburg, C.M., & Wieland, A.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Rule of 40 was popularized by venture capitalists in recent years as a key performance metric for SaaS firms. The metric captures the trade-off between short-term viability and the investment in growth. on this metric. For Coupa, a key success measure they share with investors is the growth in spend under management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2015

Here are mine: To remember that supply chains should be built backward from the customer. One way to do this is to use a Perfect Order metric as a key way of measuring the supply chain organization. Learning & Leadership Supply Chain Risk Management'

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With 30% of respondents indicating their organizations are suffering from an inability to assess risk across suppliers, many are investing in new strategies to minimize the frequency and impact of disruption. Effective supplier management will be agile enough to identify disruption and the impact it will have on suppliers and take action.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While some of the increase was due to growth in our customer base and the number of suppliers monitored (more factories = more potential for factory fires) the trend line was rising at a much faster clip than business metrics would account for. Supplier risk assessment. Risk monitoring.

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Resilinc

APRIL 13, 2021

You may be part of an organization whose leaders understand that supply chain risk management (SCRM) is a strategic imperative, and your SCRM may already be mature and delivering a return on investment. 4) The supply chain organization’s operational review includes evaluation by the corporate risk team.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2014

Unfortunately, most supply chain executives and their teams focus predominantly on just two factors, the tradeoffs between cost and service, with risk rarely entering the conversation — until a disruption occurs and then everyone goes into panic mode. And the first step is asking “What are the risks?”

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EcoVadis

JANUARY 8, 2015

Those with a proactive approach have proven themselves to be ahead of the curve and able to prove results not just in savings, but across other key business metrics. Conventional thinking about supply chains and supplier risk is outdated. Conventional Thinking is Outdated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Nexus model can also provide the kind of data that digital twins that are based on a static planning model struggle to provide true lead times (and other supply chain throughput/cycle time metrics). But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Our preliminary findings suggest that supply chain resilience has been increasing in importance over time, but still remains secondary to the end goal embedded in the perfect order metric – the right product, to the right place, at the right time. However, supply chain resilience is more than just a concept to practitioners.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #5 Not having a supply chain risk management process. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy).

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Linear supply chains as we know them are turning into supply networks with more players and parties than ever before. To understand the geopolitical risks, all you need to do is to turn on network news. Given all this, one would think that supply chain risk management is more prominent now.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On the other hand, transportation metrics continue their slowed pace, reaching the second highest level of capacity growth, and the third fastest rate of price contraction in the history of the index. Interestingly, Transportation Utilization is the outlier here, as both utilization metrics in the index were up significantly in September. ”.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2016

Unfortunately, most supply chain executives and their teams focus predominantly on just two factors, the tradeoffs between cost and service, with risk rarely entering the conversation — until a disruption occurs and then everyone goes into panic mode. And the first step is asking “What are the risks?”

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What is your advice to high-tech and semiconductor companies who want to mature their existing resiliency programs? I would start by asking, ‘Do you have 1) people, 2) process, 3) governance, and 4) technology specifically for supply chain risk management?’—and and an established a strategy for operational resilience.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2018

So it comes as no surprise a joint report published by the Cranfield School of Management and Dun & Bradstreet concludes, “There are significant differences across sectors, requiring varying risk management practices across industries.”[1] This year’s top ten risks were identified as: 1.

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A critical part of any supply chain is an effective and efficient supply chain risk management (SCRM) program. Stone , Vice President of Supply Chain Risk Management at Exiger Government Solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Agility is more about reacting in the next day or two, or even the next hour or two, to potential supply chain disruptions. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. The company has built Control Towers for this purpose.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Reason #3 Not having end-to-end supply chain visibility. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #5 Not having a supply chain risk management process. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. I’ll tell them what they are getting.”This

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

The value network of suppliers and logistics providers is largely managed by spreadsheets and email with no system of record for interactions. What is Risk Management? About the Author: Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. To ensure clarity, let’s start with a definition.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 10, 2015

Prioritized action lists based on impact to your customers or whatever key metrics drive your business can ensure that planners are working on what matters. The post Know sooner, act faster and accelerate your supply chain performance! appeared first on The 21st Century Supply Chain. Act Faster.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 31, 2017

Predictable risks are still causing significant losses on a daily basis. Many organizations are losing millions, and in some Global 3000 cases, billions of dollars a year due to ineffective supply chain risk management and monitoring. Sustainability performance metrics also enable creation of risk maps.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Interestingly, the downshifts we observed in transportation metrics were much more muted in the last week of July, leaving open a possibility for a bit of recovery as we move towards peak season. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector. that we have not seen since April of 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Applying Lessons, Actions and Learning Once again we reiterate that global supply chain management teams instill the learning, lessons and successful actions garnered from the pandemic years, namely: Broader material and finished goods supplier sourcing options across multiple regions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2020

Supply management teams should be on the ready to receive notices, triage event impacts on the business, and rapidly engage supplier managers to investigate causes and cures. Leverage available event-sensing technology and have in place a disciplined, cross-functional supply chain risk management governance structure.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

Data-based decisions can affect all aspects of your supply chain. They can influence performance measures, financial metrics, and customer service. BI and DA also support improved supply chain risk management (SCRM). And the better use of data leads to better decisions.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

Data-based decisions can affect all aspects of your supply chain. They can influence performance measures, financial metrics, and customer service. BI and DA also support improved supply chain risk management (SCRM). And the better use of data leads to better decisions.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #5 Not having a supply chain risk management process. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy). Sound ridiculous?

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

Cahn also highlighted on-time delivery risk: “Will a supplier be around to support my delivery schedules and can I trust them not to shut down my plant [due to a late or missed delivery],” he added. “Do Do we have the right Service Level Agreement metrics in place? Is the mode of transport the most efficient to impact on-time delivery?

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DynaSys

APRIL 14, 2021

First, if an overall supply chain risk management process is not in place that needs to be designed and implemented as quickly as possible. While that plan is being executed, the supply chain needs to be evaluated from beginning to end and needs to become agile, flexible and nimble.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2022

based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The country’s elderly populations are especially at risk. A published report from Reuters this week cites modeling data that forecasts over one million deaths across China through 2023, according to projections from the U.S.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I always come back from these conferences inspired and fascinated at how diligent chemical supply chain managers must be to mitigate risk and adverse events. Sri Laxmana, director of Ocean Services, participated in a panel discussion on Effective Supply Chain Risk Management.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 30, 2023

Issues with Many SCRM Programs Supply chain management and supply chain risk management (SCRM) have become a greater priority for businesses and government organizations in the last five years, according to Gartner.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2016

no metrics, operate in functional silos). Simply put, if you don’t understand the root causes of poor supply chain visibility, you won’t know what corrective actions to take. Quantify the financial impact of poor supply chain visibility. Identify which SKUs take priority for supply chain mapping.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

This section will cover JIT and outsourcing by Apple Inc, Supply Chain Risk Management by Cisco System, Technology Roadmap by Intel, Supply Chain Network Model by HP, Mass Customization by Dell and Quality Management by Sam Sung. Then, a poor planning will result in a massive loss.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 24, 2015

Dashboards, metrics, scorecards, alerts, and collaboration tools are a must-have if your supply chain is going to give you a competitive advantage. Do you have fundamental supply chain challenges that aren’t mentioned here? Taking that one step further, do you have the ability to ACT on that insight?

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