Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. As I walked I found a wonderfully clear example of the difference that mutual respect for people makes.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Background Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia , ketteQ describes itself as redefining how businesses approach supply chain planning and execution with fundamentally different technology approach. Changes in a forecasting performance metric can be attributed to a specific step or action in the forecasting process.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

For example, discriminative AI can be used to classify suppliers based on performance metrics (including delivery time and quality, pricing) and external data (including ESG scores and financial stability) to recommend the best-fit suppliers within constraints such as cost, location, or sustainability goals.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

Reported May 29 While China remains the number one source for products we sell, we currently estimate the percentage of product COGS it represents is approximately 30% to 35% compared to the 55% metric we shared in March. I would organize them into five main themes. These include: Leveraging manufacturing flexibility.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 11, 2025

confectionary business in 2018. The New York Times reports that the takeover would combine Ferrero, a family-owned company that makes Tic Tacs, Ferrero Rocher candies and Nutella spreads, with the producer of Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and other cereals.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Billy Associate, BJO Posted on: Mar, 13 2018 Thanks for this very informative article.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

CP has recorded annual losses in each year dating back to 2018, and was on pace to completely deplete its cash reserves by Q2 of 2025 before the federal government stepped in with a $1 billion lifeline in January.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

ABF’s test of the Semi trounces the standard key performance indicator if taken as a stand-alone metric but also surpasses publicly available data released by carriers in earlier pilot tests and by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. An y reaction to t hese stories?

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. Confluence of Technologies. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

An example for this client would be to use 2017 and 2018 history to forecast 2019. It is my hope that we can side-step political discussions demonstrated in my stories and ground the problem solving in scientific methods to understand the properties of data, the potential of supply chains through modeling, and the alignment of metrics.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

As 2018 comes to an end, a quick thank you to all of our readers, followers, and sponsors for another great year of learning and conversation on Talking Logistics. Top 10 Talking Logistics Posts in 2018. 2018 Parcel Oversize Changes: Tightening of the Vise. Talking Logistics Video Episodes (Second Half of 2018).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

We analyzed the impact of 150 factors on 493 financial metrics for the period of 2004-2016. By graphing the financial metrics through orbit charts, we find that 90% of companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Based on attendee feedback, we have revamped the summit to exclude sponsorships in 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite legislation, in 2022, the world generated 62 million metric tons of e-waste, according to the United Nations Global E-waste Monitor. million 40-metric-ton trucks which, if placed bumper-to-bumper, would form a line long enough to wrap around the equator. million tons of textile waste ended up in US landfills in 2018.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In 2018, the Journal of Commerce reports that a container will have 22,000 to 24,000 twenty-foot containers in 2018. On March 16th-18th, I will be on a book tour in Europe discussing the concepts of Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (The chassis is underneath the APL container in this picture.) The ships are getting larger.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2018

Supply chain leaders will face 2018 with uncertainty and opportunity. In other words, the simple act of providing reports to executives and upper-level managers could be considered a form of data visualization, and better reporting will be a fundamental improvement in supply chains throughout 2018, explains Craig Guillot of Supply Chain Dive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the Supply Chain Global Summit 2018 , Francois discussed the impact of digitalization, Industry 4.0, The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

This unprecedented change, and the challenges and opportunities it creates for CPG companies and suppliers, was a hot topic of conversation at the Nulogy xChange 2018 conference a few weeks ago where I delivered a keynote presentation and moderated a panel discussion with industry executives (more on that later). .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Industry-by-industry, I compiled data for the period of 2010-2018. We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The companies I work with struggle to set metrics targets. The focus on functional silo excellence and transactional processing reduces value. Celebrating Success.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Develop Metrics to Track the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Omnichannel Strategy. Retailers must implement specific metrics to track the effectiveness and efficiency of the original strategy and all appropriate solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)).

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. Alexa Cheater (@Alexa_Cheater) May 15, 2018. Simon advocated that traditional metrics such as on-shelf availability (OSA) will need to be augmented with the likes of online availability (OLA).

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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks. Quality Metrics Defining the Future of Manufacturing.

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