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Supply Chain Analytics: What It Is and Why It Matters

QAD

What is Supply Chain Analytics and Why is it Important? Supply chain analytics allows businesses to examine their operations and view data in real-time. With supply chain management analytics software, companies can improve decision making, take a proactive approach and quickly mitigate issues before they explode into bigger problems.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Belief in efficient procurement. Investment in indirect procurement hi-jacked investment in building value networks. Sadly, most of it is the wrong inventory.

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When the Rubber Hits the Road

Supply Chain Shaman

In this volatile world, efficient procurement led by a CFO is not the answer. Make, source, and deliver need to be managed together based on analytics that sense and respond at the speed of business. Results in the Automotive Industry for the period of 2012-2021. Characteristics of Who Is Navigating Well? So, you might ask, why?

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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!

Supply Chain Shaman

Ironically, analytics capabilities increased greatly, while organizational capabilities precipitously declined. To understand this point, I contrast the results of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners published in 2022 (last week) against their peer group from 2012 to 2021. The Need for Collaboration. Is this leadership? I think not.

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Analytics Powering the Next Evolution of the Supply Chain

Supply Chains Rock

Wednesday, May 09, 2012. Analytics Powering the Next Evolution of the Supply Chain. The chart, pasted below, focuses on how IBM is using analytics to not only optimize the supply chain, but to actually predict how issues in the world will impact operations. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

By 2012 they had implemented this multi-enterprise supply chain network (MSCN) solution. A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics. That increases the value of the analytics used by the procurement team.

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IBM Beefing Up for Matrix Commerce in 2012

Supply Chain Network

The acquisition expands IBM’s cloud-based analytics offerings that provide supply chain intelligence leading to better inventory management and cost efficiencies. Emptoris solutions bring more intelligence to procurement and supply chain operations with spend, supplier and contract management for Smarter Commerce.