GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. The manuscript is due to Wiley on March 1st for an August 2014 publish date. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In 2014, ecommerce strategies grew in importance. Aggressively design and test products online and then bring the data into your forecasting tools to predict sales of new products by channel. Problems continue, but 2014 was the year of experimentation. Details matter. Execution is essential. 4) Pick Your Partners Carefully.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 11, 2014

On 12 May 2014 IMD organized a one-day open event in Lausanne that analyzed big data and its impact on value chains. Several experts with different backgrounds shared their views on the latest trends at the intersection of big data and value chains. When did big data start being part of our life? Personalized homepage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. Overall, supply chain leaders deliver results that have strength (year-over-year performance improvements), balance (a set of balanced metrics within a portfolio) and resilience (predictable and reliable results with few swings).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The metrics shown in Figure 1 are difficult to improve together. Most companies improve singular metrics but are not able to drive portfolio. Consistent data is not available prior to 2006.) The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information.

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

Wearable healthcare works by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. They work by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. Machine learning is also being used to update other forms of master data that are key inputs into the plan. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts. Conclusion.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 9, 2017

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. Gartner does a good job at pulling what data is publicly available. The magic is in the three year revenue growth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. Data surrounds the company. The data in the channel is changing faster than the company can adopt processes and technologies to use it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Over the course of a year, we analyzed a decade of financial data to gain an understanding of how companies and industry sectors are balancing growth, profitability, cycles and complexity. We enjoy writing them!

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? The data analyzed to compile the Supply Chains to Admire 2014 report came from publicly-available information from balance sheets and income statements. As a result, you will not find 3M or GE in the data.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

According to the article: The company says the [FusionOps] software, which tracks open purchase orders, product fill rate, sales, as well as where products are in the supply chain, helped boost the share of merchandise delivered on-time and in-full, considered a core metric among retailers, from 28% to 78%. billion in worldwide revenue.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

The average company has 3-5 ERP systems and the data for S&OP comes from an average of 15 systems. 2) The focus needs to be on driving a balanced portfolio of metrics that goes across the organization. The technological challenges are also greater. The process needs to be very disciplined.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

I worked with consultants defining a business case for cloud-based supply chain solutions and new vendors looking to use artificial intelligence to solve the problems of master data management. 2014 was not a good year for the western ports. On the road, I scanned the newspapers… read newsfeeds. Here at home, things are busy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

However, most of the data is not a normal distribution. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. In February 2014, the price was $103.40. Data latency is an issue and an opportunity. Time Is not optimized.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

I also continued to work on the manuscript for the book Metrics That Matter to publish in the fall of 2014. So, I am going to focus here and share my answer: Demand sensing is the application of analytic technologies to detect short-term patterns in channel data and translate it into distribution requirements. The answer?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS. In the last five years the Supply Chain Operating Network technologies evolved canonical data structures to enable communication in a many-to-many data model. Is the announcement good for the industry?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

“Consumer Convenience” will become a new supply chain metric (more on that idea in a future post). By the way, what ever happened to HDS , the startup quietly launched in 2014 by Webvan’s founder Louis Border that promised to “offer competitive prices, fresher foods and unlimited selection, as well as free delivery?” (See

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 19, 2017

To try to wrap my head around the way the winners were determined, I dug in to the data. The methodology was determined with Supply Chain Insights and Arizona State University in 2014. For this reason, a company shows greater balance if the improvement of one of the metrics does not cause a negative effect on the other.

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Kinaxis

MAY 21, 2015

by CJ Wehlage On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. I would have preferred adding and changing the metrics to rank the companies rather that a category to remove two. So, I decided to check even more data on what’s changed over the years. Almost a year later, that was 100% correct.

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Supply Chain Insights

MARCH 16, 2015

Nine out of ten companies are stuck: unable to make progress on a portfolio of supply chain metrics. “What is the value of channel data? The simulation game is tied to the work we are doing with Arizona State University’s Operations Research group on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. We want to help.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

October 28-30, 2014. Avaya has leveraged RapidResponse to automate low value processes, integrate previous planning silos, synchronize work streams, translate data into information, self-monitor and auto-alert, drive towards exception-based management and accelerate business intelligence. Learn more.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Datum: 17-18 November 2014. In 2014, we’re looking to deep-dive into the following critical topic areas: Reconciling business and technology priorities for the Logistics CIO – debate the evolving role of the top IT role at your organization: Is there still room for a CIO in logistics or is IT a core competency of the head of operations?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. The Company has a checkered past. I hope that this helps.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Today, while the hype has dissipated, some data exchanges remain, and a few are starting to thrive again. The solution has been rebuilt from the ground-up to be a multi-tier data model and is named the Supply Chain Operating Network. Today, I feel that this advice is still relevant. They are not designed for multi-tier functionality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. The data sets are larger and more complex. The difference?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The differences in rankings mostly turned on how scientists accounted for data gaps in the Arctic, which is warming faster than the rest of the globe.”[3] This is expected to result in the reduction of over 26 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — the equivalent of taking five million-plus cars off the road for a full year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Self-reporting of data does not meet this standard. In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. Debra built the Gartner Hierarchy of supply chain metrics.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Datum: 3-4 December 2014. Through interactive peer discussions, get up-to-date knowledge on: Theme One: End-to-end Supply Chain Metrics. Events Amsterdam City end-to-end supply chain metrics eyefortransport Life Sciences Mercure Hotel Summit supply chain' 5th Annual Life Sciences Supply Chain Summit EU. URL: [link].

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

These were just a few of the themes discussed at this year’s Connections 2014, Logility’s customer conference. Bill Nienburg outlined Under Armour’s bold and aggressive supply chain strategy, built on 4D collaboration with a multi-dimensional data-driven processes. Analytics Everywhere. Commentary.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). This requires an industry-specific data model.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2016

Launched in 2014 and brought to you by the eWorld Procurement & Supply team, The Procurement Summit will provide senior purchasing, sourcing and supply chain executives across the North of England with an unmissable opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest industry innovations, best practice and new technology solutions.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

All data aside, this new category was primarily to remove Apple and P&G, so the words “we have a new #1” could be stated. Amazon had been spending a ton on assets, both data center and distribution, which killed their pre-2016 ROA ranking. Congrats to Annette Clayton and her team. Variety breeds interest. Hold the presses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. ” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kinaxis is pleased to be a Premier Sponsor and participate in panel discussion of the 2014 EMEA Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Hope to see you in the coming weeks! Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. September 10-11. London, UK. Wednesday September 10 th at 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM in Room Westminster B&C. Learn More.

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