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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Supplier performance management provides detailed information about the risks your suppliers may have, so you can take action to reduce or eliminate risks in your supply chain. The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results.

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Refresh Your Supply Chain – Have a Coke and a Smile

Supply Chain Network

In 2003, Coca-Cola enterprises began a five year, $200 million IT plan called Project Pinnacle. Coke’s main desires in terms of supply chain improvement included metrics with no manual intervention, industry standards that are not Coke specific and an even more vigorous system for reporting hierarchies. How do they do it all?

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5 Factory Uses for Sensors You Might Not Expect

DELMIA Quintiq

In 2003, the retail giant began a “slap and chip” program to place RFID tags on all of their pallets and case packs. By using stock materials more strategically and gathering information in real-time about the condition of all sitting inventory, factories can pick up a lot of savings they didn’t even know they were leaving on the table.

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5 Factory Uses for Sensors You Might Not Expect

DELMIA Quintiq

In 2003, the retail giant began a “slap and chip” program to place RFID tags on all of their pallets and case packs. By using stock materials more strategically and gathering information in real-time about the condition of all sitting inventory, factories can pick up a lot of savings they didn’t even know they were leaving on the table.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

My enhancements were to add the underlying technology and company information at the bottom which gives some context. . The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. Their words.

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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. Information and process focus, rather than decisions focus.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

More information about outsourcing can be found from the infographic named. " If you search Google for the term "critical success factor erp", youll find lots of information about how to implement ERP successfully. 7) Adopt Both Service and Financial Metrics. In short, dont ever outsource your core competency.