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Track the Supply Chain Metrics that Really Matter

Precoro

To monitor supply chain performance, stakeholders of successful companies typically define supply chain metrics that are relevant to the given business and track these KPIs regularly. By setting benchmarks for metrics, analysts can recognize unsettling trends and take preventive measures on time.

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Managing E-Commerce Fulfillment Spikes With Data Analysis

GlobalTranz

This creates a major problem for managing e-commerce fulfillment when orders spike and shippers need to understand how data analysis may help. Data Analysis Enhances E-Commerce Forecasts and More Take a moment to consider what goes into managing e-commerce fulfillment. How Surface Mode Shippers Can Compete in E-Commerce Logistics.

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17 Key Inventory Metrics & KPIs for 2023

Unleashed

The last of these can be achieved by tracking the right inventory metrics, analysing the results, and making data-driven optimisations. So, what are the ‘right’ inventory metrics, and how do you calculate them? In this inventory metrics guide What are inventory metrics? What are KPIs for inventory?

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Not To Be A Losing Pawn

Supply Chain Shaman

I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. A warehouse is the tip of the spear for dysfunction. As a result, the warehouse, supporting the factory, was always full. I also ran three outside warehouses.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

An analysis of improvement, performance, and value of over 500 public companies in 28 industries over a decade. (I In the past five years, companies have 5-10X the number of AGVs in their warehouses, but 40-60% more planners in corporate. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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Best Practices for Warehouse Management Systems to Reduce Supply Chain Costs

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

With warehouse management systems in the supply chain, businesses go from struggling with consumer demands and hidden bottlenecks to flourishing in sales and expanding with new business strategies. What is a warehouse management system? Advantages of warehousing in supply chain management. Reduce Supply Chain Costs. Save money.