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6 metrics tips and tools to benchmark P2P Digital Transformation

ivalua

Here’s a look at some of the Procure- to-Pay metrics procurement leaders should watch in order to better understand their digital progress. This metric closely aligns with digital transformation progress. This metric also impacts others like speed, visibility, and cost savings. . #2

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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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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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Supply Chain KPIs & Metrics: Our Top 24 for Manufacturers

Silvon Software

For one thing, today’s operational processes have become more complicated due to the ever-growing number of sources, platforms and touchpoints that must now be analyzed in order to drive actionable insights from them. Supply chain metrics provide the intelligence needed to make better projections and more informed choices in such a market.

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. Today, I am going to share five insights that I have gleaned from our work on Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point. Both procurement solutions from ERP companies like Oracle or Infor – or business spend management solutions – can help companies enforce these sourcing supplier decisions.

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Metrics that Matter: Inventory Effectiveness

QAD

It is critical to monitor inventory effectiveness using five key metrics: Expedited orders, inventory turns, obsolete inventory, safety stock and stockouts. Using Metrics to Measure the Health of the Business. Companies use these metrics to minimize their investment in inventory without adversely affecting customer service levels.