GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Last mile e-commerce, last mile technology, last mile metrics and white glove services make standard shipping conversations seem like child’s play, and the new focus on the last mile is anything but. Leveraging Metrics, Shippers Find Better Ways to Excel at Customer Service and Last Mile Services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2015

Last week, I held my new book in my hand. I am now an author of my third book. Tomorrow, I have a call with a manufacturing company to answer the question, “ What is the most important concept in the book?” The book is a story of a fictional client by the name of Joe. The smell of ink is intoxicating.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The genesis started with the writing of the book Bricks Matter. The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. Sadly, while writing the book, I found that this was not the case. We want to get it right. Definitions.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2016

Take a look at how a business can use technology, metrics, and services to improve transportation processes, which range from supplier shipping to route optimization. Download the KPIs E-Book by Filling out the Form Below! Businesses are often left with questions about the origination of such data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 12, 2025

Ocean booking cancellations. Form and socialize your own hierarchy of metrics. Here is the metrics framework that I am using at present in my outside-in classes. Shifting sands. Price increases. Tightening of pocketbooks: changing demand patterns. Decline in consumer confidence. Companies are delaying hiring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you miss reading the Shaman in the next few weeks and you want some new reading in the area of supply chain excellence, consider tucking my new book Metrics that Matter into your suitcase. The book is full of the research on building value networks, and as you read it, drop me a line. I welcome your feedback.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Some of the packages on the trucks moving right now are the first shipments of Metrics that Matter. The book is the end of three years of research and nine months of writing. Holding the book in my hand was both invigorating and overwhelming at the same time. I hope that it is under your tree.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 19, 2014

When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I wanted to write a celebratory book on why the adoption of new technologies and practices in supply chain had improved corporate performance. ” I heard this time-after-time in my interviews for the book Bricks Matter. But the data could not support the promise. Encompassing.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). What inspired you to write your book? I started writing what became Bricks Matter, the first book I wrote. I realized I couldn’t write the celebratory book.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of 10 great supply chain analytics books to help you better understand the concepts and strategies behind this vital business field. From foundational reads to more advanced topics, these books will help you start your journey into the world of supply chain analytics!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 6, 2014

The book, Metrics That Matter , is almost finished. People cannot get enough on metrics. As always, we keep your responses confidential. This morning, I am writing from Istanbul. I will be speaking at the Integrated Supply Chain Conference on Thursday. Lots of interest in the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Using balance sheet data from 2011 to 2019, we chart companies’ progress by peer group on rate of improvement and performance in the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). A focus on functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance.) It seems easy, right?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics. What are functional metrics?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my research, I find that the lack of alignment has a direct impact to value (operating margin and market price to book value). Functional Metrics. This maniacal focus on improving functional metrics threw the supply chain out of balance and made the organization less able to work together to solve issues.

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 31, 2015

What are the essential purchasing books you should read? In this article, we will uncover the best purchasing books to help you get the edge over competition. In order to become successful in purchasing career, lifelong learning is a key and good purchasing books play the important role in your career advancement.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Movement solves for this by empowering AI agents to clean data, then communicate and act at the operational level, including booking shipments and performing complex reroutes, all while keeping stakeholders informed. This extensive connectivity has resulted in impressive metrics: 1.2

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 7, 2025

To learn more about how inventory optimization strategies can prepare your business for whatever challenges tomorrow brings, book your free consultation with ToolsGroup now: Contact us First, a sophisticated analysis and decision-making process, that incorporates real-time data and requirements.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. The book is a story. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter. The book publishes in December 2014. It is a fable about a guy by the name of Joe that does not want to be an average Joe.

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Silvon Software

JUNE 23, 2020

As I mentioned in my previous post, Sales Dashboards – 16 Metrics for Manufacturers , a strategy for measuring business performance should also incorporate metrics that focus on the supply chain and other operational areas of the enterprise. Nevertheless, measuring supply chain performance is critical for a manufacturing concern.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. Writing this book has been like a black cloud hanging over my head. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the Supply Chain Index work. The book is now 98,482 words and eight chapters.

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Kinaxis

MAY 21, 2019

by Richard Cushing In its recent e-book, The Path to Modern Supply Chain Planning – Why the Shift from Siloed to Collaborative Is Worth the Journey , Kinaxis identifies the warning signs of ineffective planning as follows: Siloed thinking. Their choice and application of metrics even reinforce siloed thinking. Disconnected execution.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics. CFOs, get ready for the next year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2013

It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter. If you have a story of supply chain excellence that you want to share for my book, please drop me a line. Next week is the first time that I am home in three months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Let me just state for the record that “Saying that you are going to write a book, is far more exciting than writing one.” Writing the book is helping me to get perspective. It is tedious. I find it easier to write in the winter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. Overall, supply chain leaders deliver results that have strength (year-over-year performance improvements), balance (a set of balanced metrics within a portfolio) and resilience (predictable and reliable results with few swings).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

I also continued to work on the manuscript for the book Metrics That Matter to publish in the fall of 2014. The book is now a very worn manuscript. I rescheduled my Monday to meet with a client on a pressing deadline and worked through the night to edit and refine the reports/journals for last week’s newsletter.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite legislation, in 2022, the world generated 62 million metric tons of e-waste, according to the United Nations Global E-waste Monitor. million 40-metric-ton trucks which, if placed bumper-to-bumper, would form a line long enough to wrap around the equator. This waste could fill more than 1.5

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Freight Waves

JUNE 3, 2025

Transportation metrics saw little change in May as capacity, utilization and pricing remained in expansion territory, according to a monthly survey of supply chain professionals. The NTIL is based on an average of booked spot dry van loads from 250,000 lanes. The NTIL is a seven-day moving average of linehaul spot rates excluding fuel.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Until then, I am traveling to South Africa to speak at SAPICS 2013 on the book Bricks Matter. On the trip to and from South Africa (16 hours door-to-door), I started writing the new book that I will be publishing in 2014. I have never been in Africa.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Are you looking for logistics management books? In this article, we will show you 5 books that'll help you learn logistics faster than any other logistics book. Logistics Book Ranking Factors To provide the book recommendations, first, we collect the name of the books that appear on Amazon.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2013

Supply chain centers of excellence help with metrics alignment, and product portfolio alignment, between finance and the supply chain team, and the supply chain team and marketing. Next week, I will be writing on my new book Metrics That Matter. The issues abound, but we cannot let the problems with execution blind us.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 20, 2015

Importance of Metrics in Reverse Logistics Management. To monitor progress against its reverse logistics management plan, a company needs metrics that measure the financial impact of returns on the firm and on other members of the supply chain. Energy used in handling returns : This metric is used in sustainability programs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist. billion transactions annually. Infor Nexus.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2016

3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance. Read More About the Metrics for Supply Chain Here. e-Book] The Future Of Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing: How Technology Is Transforming Industries. Let’s take a closer look at the current state of today’s supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 19, 2016

We are currently doing correlations to our quantitative survey responses (over 6000 respondents) to understand which practices make the largest difference in driving Market Price to Tangible Book. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Transportation Metrics That Matter Most to Track and Improve Performance : How do you measure logistics efficiency and transportation metrics performance indicators when you are already doing the best job possible? Let’s take a look at these trucking industry trends and what kind of facts they provide. Read the Full Blog Post.

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