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Supply Chain Metrics - Gaining Visibility in a Data-rich World

Logility

The second part of Drucker’s quote, “if you can't measure it, you can't improve it,” really brings home the importance of having the right set of metrics. In the field of supply chain management, we have created an abundance of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data

Logility

Listed below are a few of the capabilities that facilitate a successful digital transformation: Master Data Management: To develop insights and make timely decisions, Big Data needs to be clean, complete, consistent, current, controlled, and convenient. Ten Ways Big Data Is Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management.

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Three Tough Headlines: What Can We Learn?

Supply Chain Shaman

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. He advised that it will take an average of three additional weeks for container unloading for the west coast ports throughout 2015.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

Warehouse Metrics to Track to Improve Profitability and Operations : Today’s warehouse managers often accrue massive amounts of performance data, but sometimes find they can apply little of it toward making productivity gains or customer service improvements. Download the Webinar Replay. Read the Full Post. Read the Full Post.

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Business Intelligence in the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

It involves collecting and often processing large volumes of data, whether it be through your own internal metrics or third-party resources. … Data mining is the process of analyzing data to identify useful patterns and insights. Footnotes. [1] 1] Staff, “ Business Intelligence (BI) ,” Gartner. [2]

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

The Hadoop approaches to data management are about 1/5th the cost of relational database approaches. Hadoop enables users to bring structured and unstructured data together in a natural state (think file folders) and then query or index based on need. 9uvrdzt2x, November 28, 2015. Why Should you Care?

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Corporate Risk and the Growing Case for Sustainable Chemical Management

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

For Kimberly Williams, an inventory services manager for the chemical data management business SiteHawk, an accurate chemical inventory is the foundation for your overall chemical management initiatives and globally harmonized system (GHS) compliance.