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Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Finally, the top 10 list was rounded out safety and metrics. These will only contain posts written in 2014. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.
Note to the reader: we selected these metrics for the balanced scorecard for the analysis after work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, most closely correlated with market capitalization. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)
The USA says it intends to reduce emissions by 26-28 percent below its 2005 level by 2025 , trying hard for the upper limit. Outside of the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport by around 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Corporate Responsibility.
Amazon’s because of their breath in physical and digital supply chain, innovation in material handling, transportation, etc and their vision completely disrupting the industry. As a result, tor most companies, the goals are unclear and the financial metrics are not well-understood. ” The answer will be “Yes!
As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics. This research, released in 2005, gives a compelling view of a metrics hierarchy. Bimodal Supply Chains Are a Viable Strategy.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, Cisco executives created a business continuity-planning dashboard to mitigate risks. Develop methodologies to measure risk for each supply chain node, warehouse, factory, supplier, geography, or transportation node. Case Study Resilience: CISCO.
FedEx says that since 2005, aviation emissions intensity (the amount of emissions per unit of activity) has dropped 31% and the company is aiming for a 40% reduction by 2034. metric tons of CO2 equivalent per million USD in revenue, down 58% from FY09 levels, despite daily package volumes rising by an average of 121%.
Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Now, based on this analysis, I can clearly see that P&G made incredible gains over competitors until 2005; but this performance could not be sustained. It is exciting to see a country so excited about building global transportation infrastructure. How Have They Done?
While internet-based transport exchanges offer potential, their effectiveness is still debated due to uncertainties in carrier and shipper participation. Postponement: Strategies like Just-in-Time and postponement can reduce inventory and transportation costs. Their strategic decisions now influence overall business performance.
The Supply Chain Operating Network technology market evolved from the trading exchange market in 2000-2005. This can include demand sensing into Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Demand-Driven Materials Requirement Planning (DDMRP), the Internet of Things sensing, and the use of independent demand into transportation planning.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly proposed standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that would improve fuel efficiency and cut carbon emissions. billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program.
It was an appropriate theme for Descartes, a company that has grown and evolved its solution footprint significantly over the past decade, with 28 acquisitions since 2005, including 7 acquisitions since the last user conference in 2013. Sears has a “fanatical focus” on customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores.
An IATA workgroup for XML messaging dates back to September 2005 but has yet to finish the job of converting all the old EDI message standards to XML. Amazon, the kings of automation built a $780 billion dollar empire on automated customer service…and their customer satisfaction metrics consistently outperform every other industry.
The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. Its first customers were Campbell’s Soup and Procter & Gamble. About Lora: Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights.
As a result, unit picking, shipping and returns is redefining warehouse management and transportation processes. This was not true in 2000-2005 where eCommerce capabilities by a manufacturer were seen as too competitive to retailers. eCommerce in manufacturing is accepted as a way of doing business for manufacturers.
Since most companies invested in the automation of the enterprise, not the value network, visibility within the company and the transportation network is a strength. The process industry’s reliance on the 3PL transportation model is a similar dilemma. State of Industries. A Critical Review of the Contract Manufacturing Model.
This regulation will see the largest reduction in the Sulphur content of the transportation fuel under taken at any time in the history. If you follow the previous IMO holdings the first reduction came in 2005 by set a limit of 4.5% million metric tons annually. The current maximum fuel oil limit of 3.5% What is IMO 2020?
He also emphasized on analytics and mentioned that IBM has done more than 16 BUSD acquisitions since 2005 in this area. Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive.
We watched as customers adopted new warehousing and transportation processes, new delivery modes, new technology tools and even entirely new network models that helped them succeed in the constantly changing “next normal” state that characterized 2020 and 2021. million employees.
While these trends are very positive, productivity among warehouse and transportation sector are still decreasing because of other forces in play, like the consumer trends toward e-commerce, which means increased operational complexity and exposed inadequacy of warehouse, transportation and order management systems.
Gartner acquired Meta in 2005, and Klappich’s career and industry profile took off. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.
But in 2005 Gartner acquired Meta, and Klappich’s career and industry profile took off. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.
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