Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
For over a decade, since founding Supply Chain Insights in 2012, I have pounded the keyboard, asking business leaders to think more holistically about the impact of supply chain decisions on the firm’s value, the improvement of a value chain, and the impact on the environment. Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
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.) As shown in Figure 1, the results for the period of 2012-2021 tell the story.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 29, 2014
As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. Organizational Alignment 2012. Functional Metrics. With the implementation of transactional systems, the focus was on measuring and controlling functional metrics like the lowest manufacturing cost or purchase price variance in procurement.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 25, 2013
The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. The year 2012 marked the 30th anniversary of the use of supply chain management as a cross-functional process for source, make and deliver in the commercial sector. Definitions.
Supply Chain Opz
JUNE 1, 2014
Background In January 2012, Forbes published the article named " Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers? " Related Metrics There are 3 other metrics dedicated to the measurement of social media influence as below, 1) Klout develops Klout Score, the number between 1-100 that represent influence (the ability to drive action).
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 28, 2020
When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics.
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