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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. In my post Mea Culpa, I reference my work with the Gartner Supply Chain Hierarchy of Metrics. Error is error, but is it the most important metric? My answer is no.

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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Perceptions, and Initiatives – Preliminary Results

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this month in the post titled What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? , The survey is structured to determine the relative importance of competing objectives, how the importance has changed over time and why; the degree to which certain external factors (resource shortages, cost inflation, etc.) More to come!

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2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. 2022 was, undoubtedly, another tough year with many disruptions happening outside the four walls of enterprise – extreme weather, natural disasters blocking access to resources, port or border congestion delaying transit, panic buying artificially inflating demand, suppliers going out of business.

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Logistics Predictions: How Did We Do in 2022 and What Will 2023 Look Like?

Logistics Viewpoints

Unlike the folks projecting election results these days, I was a little more accurate and the 2022 projections have set the stage for what will happen in 2023. Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. This trend is expected to continue in 2023, with omnichannel sales across websites, social media, mobile apps, and brick-and-mortar stores being crucial for businesses. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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Trying to Push Content Above the Noise

Supply Chain Shaman

My last post was December 7th, 2023. January 2023 started my journey fighting the healthcare system to understand my symptoms which lead to surgery in June. We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. Today is a writing day.

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Stop Food Waste Day 2023

Enterra Insights

Tomorrow, 26 April 2023, is international Stop Food Waste Day. billion metric tons of food is wasted on farms each year — that’s nearly twice as much as in previous estimates.”[6] Food wastage not only deprives us of food, but it also squanders the production resources used to make it.” ” Why all the fuss?