Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Where EBIT or EBITDA per inventory $ or per working capital $ helps in getting meaningful benchmarks and aligned targets, they are not common financial metrics. We will close this blog by discussing the Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) which is close to the EBIT% vs CCC, and which is a more common financial metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. This type of benchmarking is the most powerful in the comparison of like competitors. The market for multi-tier inventory management was overhyped and largely underdelivered in the period of 2005-2007.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

I remember December 2007 like yesterday. Too few companies have the discipline to measure Forecast Value Add–comparison to the naive forecast–and drive improvement. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. Reflection.

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Freightos

JUNE 9, 2018

While electronic passenger tickets were introduced in 1994 and reached a 97% penetration rate by 2007, the eAWB standards was adapted as an IATA standard in 2010, and adoption in 2018 still hovers at 53%. But not for lack of effort. Electronic airway bills (eAWB) are a familiar example. The post Air Cargo Tech Is Falling Behind.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

It was the world’s largest VC firm in 2007 with over $20 million in assets during the year. Founded in 2006, this firm is slightly newer in comparison to others. A thorough understanding of metrics that prove out business models. Greycroft Partners. However, its relative youth doesn’t mean it’s any less successful.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) Look for the full report next week.).

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