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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. Today, I am going to share five insights that I have gleaned from our work on Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com.

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Financial Benchmarking for Inventory Turns and Working Capital

Arkieva

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire 2015

Supply Chain Shaman

It is for this reason, that we analyze the patterns of the Metrics That Matter using orbit charts over the period of 2006-2014. The analysis is designed to analyze supply chain leader success on a portfolio of metrics. Nine out of ten are stuck unable to make improvements in these Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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2016: Building a Balanced Scorecard for Discrete Industries

Supply Chain Shaman

For the discrete industries we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee, and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. For each metric we show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period.

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2016: Building a Balanced Scorecard for Discrete Industries

Supply Chain Shaman

For the discrete industries, we contrast the industry averages for growth, operating margins, inventory turns, cash-to-cash cycle, revenue per employee and SG&A ratio for the periods of 2006-2014 and 2011-2014. For each metric was show the averages and the percent change from the beginning and end of the period.

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The top 25 supply chains and Survivor

Kinaxis

McDonald’s has an inventory turn of 174.5. 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. Somehow, normalize the odd numbers. Nokia was tops at 46%.

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9 Key Topics to Understand to Frame A Shipper’s Mind for Effective KPI Management with a 3PL

GlobalTranz

For example: Inventory Record Accuracy has to be 98-100% accurate daily. All KPIS have metrics to measure. Outputs and measures are put into a Service Level Agreement ( SLA ) with mutually agreed upon win-win, effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). All KPIS have a target percentage to meet.

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