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Supply Chain KPIs You’ll Want Every Morning

Logility

Failed SCM implementation causes shipping errors. WMS failure causes Adidas to under ship by 20%. Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. SCOR Level 1 Metrics are good examples of measures that have longer-ranging focus. Bankruptcy.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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An Entrepreneur Explains The 10 Things Needed to Build A Business that Investors Can’t Say ‘NO’ To

Logistics Viewpoints

He sold the company in 2001 when the company had achieved revenues of about $10 million. In the case of Locus, the labor to build one of the robots is quite minimal, so the labor savings would not be offset by the high shipping costs. Their metrics just don’t make sense. It was not a successful sale.

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50 warehouse automation stats you should know

6 River Systems

General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. According to data from the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? They also lack process controls and metrics. Toys R Us lowers free shipping limit for online orders. I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system.

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How Demand Planning Influences Supply Planning through Predicting Future Demand Patterns

Vanguard Software

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. They can provide advanced information to transportation/shipping partners to avoid shipping delays. Not too long ago, in 2014, Walgreens had a $1 billion forecasting error that led to the exit of two executives.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 billion metric tons as of 2017.