Big Data Inventory Metrics Survey 
3PL Insights
AUGUST 16, 2021
Big data is only useful if you understand the metrics and can connect them to the important areas of your business. But how do we turn inventory management data and other key metrics into business intelligence? Account Activity Data. Account Activity Data. Please take this 4-minute survey.
Logility
MAY 7, 2020
Figure 1: Demystifying Data Units. Embracing big data brings the promise of reduced costs, improved customer service, reduced risk and the ability to capture new opportunities. However, capturing the data you need is just the start of the journey. Figure 2: Results Achieved Using Big Data Analytics.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 13, 2017
If the arrow is red, the industry is moving backwards on a metric. The industry made progress on revenue/employee, but struggled on growth, margin, inventory turns. Companies, based on culture, tend to focus on singular metrics. If the arrow is green, progress was made. Is this because this value chain is a laggard?
Kinaxis
JULY 13, 2018
Thick data” vs big data, the power of the supply chain profession, and cybersecurity. Complement big data with “thick data”. Instead, she suggested they should complement it with “thick data”. If big data is about numbers and analysis, thick data is about bringing human intuition into decision-making.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 12, 2013
Focus the organization on understanding the “probability and patterns of demand” and how to design push/pull decoupling points, supplier networks and inventory buffers to improve agility (focusing on form and function of inventory in the supply chain). Next week, I will be writing on my new book Metrics That Matter.
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