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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

Logistics Viewpoints

Infor held an Innovation Summit at their headquarters in New York City on March 18 th and 19 th. So, for other ERP providers, a food & beverage template supports all food and beverage companies. In contrast, the Infor food & beverage solution supports micro verticals.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?” ” For many stuck in the myriad of functional metrics, like Operational Efficiency (OEE), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), or transportation cost, a focus on growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is a stretch.

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Orchestrating Disrupted Supply Chains in Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail

DELMIA Quintiq

Key capabilities required to support innovation in CPGR Supply Chains: End to end modeling and representation. Today’s business goals include financial as well as operational metrics, the trade-off between cost and service is only one of a number of competing priorities. Business based outcomes. Optimization and analytics.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

In the research, I’m trying to understand the impact of choices—technology, process innovation, and leadership– on balance sheet performance. Companies performing the best have three characteristics: Business Model Innovation. We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. Supply Chain Excellence Is Closely Coupled With Product Innovation. Leaders invest in analytics and customer-centric innovation.

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Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

GlobalTranz

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.