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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Belief in efficient procurement. Alignment Barriers.

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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). requires a different set of metrics.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software. ” LLamasoft: Recycled Software Assets Offering Hope? The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

(LLamasoft acquired the LogicTools assets from IBM in the spring of 2015.) As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. Barloworld, a South African software provider, was attempting to enter the North American market.

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How Mobile Data Collection Solutions Can Transform Struggling Businesses

RFgen

Mobile data collection solutions can help struggling companies more accurately track their inventory. Before we discuss how mobile data collection solutions can help struggling businesses, we need to address just how serious it is that all companies continuously evaluate their supply chain for weaknesses.

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How Mobile Data Collection Solutions Can Transform Struggling Businesses

RFgen

Mobile data collection solutions can help struggling companies more accurately track their inventory. Before we discuss how mobile data collection solutions can help struggling businesses, we need to address just how serious it is that all companies continuously evaluate their supply chain for weaknesses.

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. ” One of the first things Enterra Solutions ® does when we engage with a new client (or begin a new project), is to help them identify the data needed to achieve desired goals. They define the right goal to achieve.