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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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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

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.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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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. Interestingly, the original push for profit has caused Coca-Cola to become an excellent resource in medical distribution. Water is an essential resource in Coca-Cola’s supply chain. How do they do it all? Always Adapting.

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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. The idea behind the “circular economy” is to, as Philips puts it , “decouple economic growth from the use of natural resources and ecosystems by using those resources more effectively.”

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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. The idea behind the “circular economy” is to, as Philips puts it , “decouple economic growth from the use of natural resources and ecosystems by using those resources more effectively.”

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

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. However, in a subsequent article published in 2003 and titled “ Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence ” Erik states that. Their words.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

Wave 1, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), started in the 1980s with a focus on automating transactional business processes, but less so on planning. Digitization of every decision made, using an automated loop that learns from both human and machine decisions. The authors detailed a sequential S&OP cycle around a. Lacking insights.