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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

Logility

Often, it becomes necessary to reevaluate how supply chain performance is measured to ensure healthy operations. Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

A Hard Look at Corporate Performance. Strangely, in the last decade, while companies had the opportunity to use technology better, supply chain performance declined. Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

The techniques to improve agility are improving data transparency/insights, use of attribute-based planning, design of push-pull decoupling points, pooling of inventory, and configure-to-order/make-to-order manufacturing. The management of these items is an area where supply chain planning excels. I hope this helps.

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. End-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and execution support software are critical in agile supply chain performance.

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Adapting in the Face of Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain resilience is “the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change” Wikipedia. Our days of chasing shiny objects and making supply chains more efficient, but more brittle need to be behind us. Revlon bankruptcy. Industry Trend by Year.

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Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance. With the increase in outsourcing practice since the 1990s, supply chains have become very complex, involving many intermediaries. Managing quality in such fragmented supply chains is indeed extremely challenging. By Guillaume Roels.

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In Search of Procurement’s North Star!

Supply Chain Game Changer

What is Procurement’s North Star Metric? The North Star Metric (NSM). As published by Forbes in a 2017 article, “The North Star metric concept originally emerged from Silicon Valley and is best utilized by companies that invest in long-term sustainable growth. These sub-metrics should be your own mini-North Star Metrics.