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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. It is the main measurement benchmark in measuring supply chain performance, isn’t it? 10 Soft Metric Considerations in Measuring Supply Chain Performance. As of November 2013, there were 31 GPS satellites in operation. Read more. . Read More. .

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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The top 25 supply chains and Survivor

Kinaxis

Microsoft acquired them in 2013, the company then laid off 12,500 people in 2014, then acquired Alcatel Lucent only to sell off a business unit to Foxconn. In this area, Gartner should push the metrics benchmark. We need to figure out how to normalize this oddity that keeps McDonald’s in the top five every year.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire 2017 Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric. While we agree that each of these companies are leaders with significant contributions to the industry, we do not find these companies outperforming when compared against their peer groups on a balanced portfolio of metrics. If the arrow is green, progress was made.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The result? The reason?

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One Year!

Supply Chain Insights

In 2013, we will continue to serve this community by expanding services. Each participant will receive a customized view of their company on financial peer benchmarking and will leave with a much clearer view of how to define Supply Chain Excellence and Define the Path Forward for Supply Chain 2020. At the end of this year, I am proud.

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7 Lessons from Amazon Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Update 9 Sep 2013 : I just come across one interesting discussion on Quora saying that Amazon actually named one of its building " Wainwright " after its first customer and this customer still have the original book and packing slip with him. This is something remarkable!