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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. We started charting public performance on Orbit charts studying the relationships between metrics and having conversations with manufacturing and retail teams about their results.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. However, hearing the concepts again, from Jim, sparked some new thoughts. It was not an ideal design.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

Wave 2, Advanced Planning Systems (APS), first adopted in the 1990s, facilitated a forward view of the business, integrated plans with other functions, and optimized supply-chain metrics such as forecast accuracy, inventory holdings, and customer service. Figure 1 is an image from the cover of the book.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

7) Adopt Both Service and Financial Metrics. In 1987, Robert Kaplan and W Bruns defined the activity based costing concept in his book " Accounting and Management: A Field Study Perspective ". 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time. However, there is the interesting twist about the ABC concept. A Case Study.