SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Most companies rely on on-time delivery, price reduction, and quality service from suppliers to make more profit. The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. What metrics do others (in my industry) use?
Enterra Insights
APRIL 22, 2019
Reporting on this development, Jennifer Smith ( @jensmithWSJ ) and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) write, “Looking to cut inventory while meeting e-commerce demands, the retailer wants more of the goods it orders delivered on time and in full. It’s a very painstaking, time-consuming process to understand what changes.”
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Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
The promise of a well-intended consultant just sounds sooooooo good. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.)
DELMIA Quintiq
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Accomplishing this unlocks just-in-time manufacturing for that car company. Using RFID tags and sensors to scan them at both steps helps supplier and manufacturer get into sync with one another and speed the time it takes to turn a complete product. Sensors are some of the most remarkable electronic devices available.
DELMIA Quintiq
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Accomplishing this unlocks just-in-time manufacturing for that car company. Using RFID tags and sensors to scan them at both steps helps supplier and manufacturer get into sync with one another and speed the time it takes to turn a complete product. Sensors are some of the most remarkable electronic devices available.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 6, 2015
At the time, Alan was frail. At the time, I had never heard of a technology category of supply chain planning. The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs.
Enterra Insights
APRIL 12, 2021
“From the earliest starting point of time until 2003,” observes Priya Dialani ( @priyadialani ), founder of Les Fleurs, “the whole world just had five billion gigabytes of data. A similar amount of data was produced over just two days in 2011. By 2013, this volume was created every 10 minutes.”[1]
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