The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. It is generally calculated as a percentage of total deliveries that were complete and on time. About Andrew Lynch.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement’s North Star article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. What exactly are you and your procurement team working towards? What is Procurement’s North Star Metric? The North Star Metric (NSM). Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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EcoVadis

MAY 31, 2018

Read on for more details about EcoVadis ratings in this interview (first published on the ING Wholesale Banking site): Rating Sustainability Performance: An Essential Business Metric. Sustainable procurement is one of the four themes of our assessment; it has its own theme score and is included in the overall rating.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

This blog post is in response to recent results from the APICS/Logility Survey, Consumer Goods S&OP research, and ChainLink’s end-user research. I recently read a very good survey by Consumer Goods Technology , focused on S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Most supply chain planning teams do not know their customers.

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

Often this data is rolled up organizationally, geographically or in distribution through performance metrics or key performance indicators (targets change with these roll ups). Gather global commodity prices and planned global procurement to drive procurement to best prices. safety stock or other planned parameters).

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Precoro

MARCH 31, 2023

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. It involves complex logic on batch size, change-overs and production sequencing.)

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

To meet consumer needs, everyone in the supply chain needs to work harmoniously together or risk bad reviews and loss of business. The expectation of instant consumer gratification has businesses scrambling to shore up their supply chain to ensure cost-effective on-time delivery, which is where omnichannel logistics comes into play.”[3]

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

You might think, “okay, our warehouse is good” without thinking about the end to end. Procurement might have hit their cost savings metrics, but if it meant purchasing more than needed, and that might hurt your warehouse inventories. All three of those things are interesting and exciting to me. The diversity is exciting.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

It’s crucial for your demand plan to be accurate because it’s used to set your procurement and manufacturing levels. It should also provide error metrics to help you understand how accurate each forecast is. If your demand forecast is too high, you’ll carry excess inventory, which will increase your carrying costs.

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QAD

JUNE 28, 2022

Taking Ford as an example, the company is working with key suppliers in China, India, Thailand and South Africa to eliminate over 4,900 metric tons of CO2 and 24 million gallons of water usage over the next three years. The environmental issues include deforestation, excessive energy use, hazardous emissions, e-waste and water pollution.

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EcoVadis

JULY 11, 2016

This workshop brought together Global Compact LEAD companies and other members convened to define and bring urgency to sustainable procurement, and to discuss how they can motivate and mobilize their companies to address this next frontier in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) progress.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

not only described as a “ significant rate of contraction ,” but also the first time that this particular metric has reached such a low level. Further, the report indicates that many consumer goods firms reportedly achieved the inventory wind down they strove for throughout 2022.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Procurement is emerging as a particularly helpful and strategic function to sustainability efforts and setting supply chain sustainability goals. Elevating procurement’s role before setting sustainability goals can be a useful and facilitative practice. Both types use quantitative metrics but have slight differentiators.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Procurement is emerging as a particularly helpful and strategic function to sustainability efforts and setting supply chain sustainability goals. Elevating procurement’s role before setting sustainability goals can be a useful and facilitative practice. Both types use quantitative metrics but have slight differentiators.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

Andrew Lynch is President and Co-Founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. Forward-thinking brands are tracking crucial metrics to illuminate their supply chains and find control. About Andrew Lynch. Perform a network analysis.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

This ensures that you have the most accurate picture of demand each time you make a supply decision regardless of the lead time – whether it is an immediate activity like replenishment (3-day), a mid-term activity like ordering ingredients or components (16-day), or procuring longer-lead items like for packaging (45-day). Consumer Goods.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. To achieve that, the company is focusing on talent development; for instance, Nestlé’s procurement talent now reside in three regional hubs, allowing for economies of scale and standardization. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While production rose among consumer goods producers, it reportedly was unchanged among intermediate and investment goods sectors. January data reinforces that production levels have improved for domestic consumer goods demand but remain muted for export related production demand.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

Least attention is paid to this category for the purpose of stock control and planning and procurement decisions for such items may be automated. Balanced Scorecard: A system of performance measurement using a structured combination of metrics. It is calculated by dividing the total inventory by the average daily cost of goods sold.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It involves assessing how the overall supply chain performed, analyzing metrics, and how well you managed exceptions. As a result of this improved forecasting precision, you can plan your procurement more accurately. You can ensure that you’re always maintaining optimal stock levels to meet consumer demand.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Unilever has sustainability at the very heart of its business model, extending all the way through the supply chain from distribution to procurement. Unilever’s pursuit of environmental responsibility even reaches out to consumers, by developing products such as washing powders which are effective with minimal quantities of water.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

This enables the modeling of channel data along with order and shipment data to drive a role-based view for finance, promotion planning, manufacturing planning (along with S&OP), transportation planning, and procurement. The root issue is functional metrics. Companies need both demand (channel) and supply-side views by role.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2024

Organizational Alignment Research 2020: Pre-Pandemic Reflection Last week, while at the Consumer Goods Forum , I rode the elevator with many C-level executives from consumer value chains. Market capitalization/employee is the value metric used as an objective function for the regression. The conclusion?

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Silvon Software

APRIL 29, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) in inventory management are metrics that help you monitor and make decisions about your stock. The Stratum data hub collects, organizes and stores data from multiple sources and serves as a single version of the truth for helping our clients analyze performance KPIs and metrics across their businesses.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 20, 2022

eBay, Etsy, and Walmart: These are also popular marketplaces that offer a vast range of consumer goods and provide a platform for large companies, SMEs, and individuals to sell their goods. Consider these factors when creating your eCommerce business plan: Which KPIs and metrics you’ll track for each area of the business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

The Ariba infrastructure is so heavily entrenched in indirect procurement processes that it is hard to adapt to the solution to manage direct materials in the supply chain. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. I am not surprised.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

For most companies, the traditional focus is on the management of order to cash, procure to pay and forecast to deliver processes. Lora wrote the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. It will define a new set of winners and losers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 21, 2025

That includes inputs, and joint collaboration with sales and marketing, finance, product management, procurement, production and customer fulfilment. Timelier, and more forward-looking scenario based planning capabilities focused on end-to-end business planning and real time assessments are a more glaring need.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. Balance: The ability to balance a portfolio of metrics to maximize market capitalization and free cash flow. My journey of sharing these insights with clients has culminated in the writing of my second manuscript, Metrics that Matter.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Over the last few years, the concept has been extended, so that we now have a "Next 25," plus the top 25 healthcare, industrial, and consumer goods supply chains, etc. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Gartner then acquired AMR in 2010.

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