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Supply Chain KPIs You’ll Want Every Morning

Logility

Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. While Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may be reviewed quarterly or monthly, the speed with which supply chain operations occur makes a daily view of more tactical and operational metrics a growing necessity.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs.

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2018: What Will It Look Like?

Supply Chain Insights

The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. For me, most of the time, it feels like a lion in sheep’s clothing.

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How to Protect Your Carrier Assets During Capacity Crunch

Talking Logistics

Next, align your service level expectations by rewarding outstanding performance and standardizing metrics about on-time delivery, invoice accuracy and communication. In 2001, he took over as Senior Vice President Operations for CLX Logistics. Max Out Your TMS Benefits.

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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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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.