GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We want to make sure that supply chain practitioners, as well as manufacturers, understand how all of these technologies are affecting the entire supply chain, including the supply chain & procurement side of a manufacturing operation. Omnichannel Supply Chain Metrics: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Measure?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Warehouse Metrics to Track to Improve Profitability and Operations : Today’s warehouse managers often accrue massive amounts of performance data, but sometimes find they can apply little of it toward making productivity gains or customer service improvements. Download the Webinar Replay. Read the Full Post. Read the Full Post.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Build a supply planning master data layer to capture supply variability of inbound receipts, conversion rates, yield, run-rates, and other variables. Current approaches result in black hole automation and bullwhip amplification.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Negotiating Skills 91

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Webinars Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India Global Gateways Europe’s Steel Industry in Jeopardy, Says ThyssenKrupp Exec Global Trade & Economics Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Manufacturing Procurement 59

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Customer Satisfaction scores side by side with the service level and availability metrics. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. .

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics DHL Express Canada Workers on Strike Following Lockout Last Mile Delivery U.S. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics U.S. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

Price Reduction 59

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics Podcast | The Clock’s Ticking: Time to Get Serious About Radio Equipment Cybersecurity Regulation & Compliance Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs? Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Vietnam 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Stalled progress on metrics: 90% of companies find themselves stuck on key supply chain metrics (cost, inventory, growth, ROIC). Companies have focused on labor outsourcing and third-party solutions to reduce headcount. The result?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 18, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

If a major customer leaves, an AS/RS investment could become a stranded asset that sits on the balance sheet and drags down financial metrics such as return on asset (RoA) or other profitability measures. Risk Mitigation and Financial Stability The same flexibility helps mitigate longer-term financial risk.

Warehousing 52

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing 59

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. Over the last decade the average company has dramatically improved employee productivity, and driven reductions in cash-to-cash metrics. Figure 6: Big Data Infographic. Supply chain capabilities disappoint.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

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Optimal Sourcing 52

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Optimal Sourcing 59

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Precoro

MAY 13, 2025

Types of cost efficiency metrics Here are five main types of cost efficiency metrics: Cost per unit : Total cost divided by units produced (e.g., A dedicated procure-to-pay solution like Precoro shows a clear picture of where corporate money is going and offers more control over how it's spent.

Sourcing Strategies 45

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

List of Top 10 Supply Chain Analytics Books 1) Supply Chain Metrics that Matter (Wiley Corporate F&A) 1st Edition This book offers an in-depth guide to understanding the link between corporate financials and supply chain maturity, evaluating the progress of over a hundred companies from 2006-2013. 8) Supply Chain 4.0:

Prescriptive Analytics Software 132

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Continuous improvement in effective transportation management is now often realized by strategic shippers thanks to the increased use of technology and integrated systems providing the ability to data mine transportation reports for substantive business intelligence. Creating an Effective Transportation Management Program Run by Metrics.

Transportation Management 120

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

For one customer that I was working with, it was E2open for hi-tech procurement, GT Nexus for ocean freight, CH Robinson for over- the-road transportation, SupplyOn and Exostar for communication with A&D customers, and Elemica for communication with rubber and plastic suppliers. The gaps are large.

Manufacturing Procurement 150

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Supply chain visibility and big data are hot topics and everyone is trying to figure out how to extract and analyze the data they have for better visibility and decision making. Financial data and visibility into the costs associated with shipping are critical to improving corporate financial performance.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2016

The reading audience is global, and spans a wide variety of roles: procurement, supply chain strategy and planning, product management, logistics and transportation, customer service, and others. We talked to Bob to see what we might learn from that experience. What is the makeup of your blog audience?

Supply Chain Planning Software 120

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Precoro

MARCH 30, 2022

Strategic Procurement Helps a Business Unleash its Potential. As The Hackett Group discovered, approaching procurement strategically with specific business goals in mind helps achieve a significantly higher ROI. Operational efficiency and cost reduction are among the top procurement priorities for CPOs, according to Deloitte.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Integrations for modern and frequent data updates – The Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform includes a data integration layer that enables your organization to build modern integrations that support frequent data updates.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Many manufacturing supply chains will evolve into intelligent networks with real-time track-and-trace, legacy systems integration and greater delivery accuracy and quality metrics than ever before. In 2019, blockchain’s greatest potential will emerge in manufacturing.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The algorithms iteratively query data with many using constraint-based modeling to find the core set of factors with the greatest predictive accuracy. Machine learning is proving to be invaluable in analyzing machine-derived data to determine which causal factors most influence machinery performance. Preston, D. S., & Swink, M.

Supply Chain Planning Software 91

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Enterra Insights

JULY 18, 2023

Transition to adaptive policies that enable NbS across infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction. Harness the power of technology, including AI and big data, to identify new water growth opportunities. Generate guidance to improve NbS impact metrics for water security to demonstrate the multiple values of water.

Resource Reduction 130

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Followed by focus on big data analytics where companies began leveraging BI (business intelligence) tools for data-driven decision making. Transport costs are soaring to ridiculous levels, especially for those shippers that did not have an organized procurement strategy for freight movement.

Supply Chain Planning Software 75

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

As an experienced business professional, he has served in diverse roles ranging from Marketing and Strategy, to Procurement and Supply Chain. Several articles and reference books have highlighted Joe’s procurement transformation accomplishments at Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks, and in the area of Supply Chain Risk Management.

Sourcing Strategies 71

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This effort was led by the Chief Procurement Officer for Siemens BT, Carl Oberland, but has recently been rolled out across the global organization. In addition, Carl assigned a person who could work on access databases, and began by combining procurement data for 5 divisions into a single database. “The

Procurement Analytics 60

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is writing her third book, Leadership Matters. Process Integration Across Functions. The greatest value happens when companies can link across source, make and deliver.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For many people who work in Supply Chain Management, or for those on the outside, it functions on the foundation of processes, formulae, and metrics. I had to simultaneously drive improvements across all dimensions: major processes, customers, functional areas, metrics, facilities, and finally culture. Infographic).

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

PwC sees the integration of analytics, APIs and big data contributing to a 31% growth rate for connected factories in the next five years. Honeywell is integrating AI and machine-learning algorithms into procurement, strategic sourcing and cost management. Chief Data Scientist, Big Data Lab, Hitachi America Ltd.

Manufacturing Procurement 56

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AFFLINK

APRIL 28, 2016

So let’s take a look at what strategic procurement really is and why it’s so important. What is Strategic Procurement? Strategic procurement focuses on the supply chain as a whole and uses costs and other metrics to identify – and then capitalize on – opportunities for improvement. Why is it Getting So Much Attention?

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