Kinaxis

AUGUST 29, 2014

Supply Chain Insights recently published a Metrics That Matter report covering both the Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industries. Semiconductor is poised to consolidate, which will have huge impact on the metrics. – as information moves down the supply chain to the manufacturer. by CJ Wehlage. Growing Complexity.

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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. To change course, learn from history, to unlearn to rethink outcomes.

Supply Chain Planning Software 377

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2013

The AMR Top 25 was the first methodology that tried to connect financial metrics with supply chain excellence. It elevated the discussion on supply chain excellence and drove more discipline and rigor in the use of financial metrics. See how different the progress is on this metric by industry? The intent was good.

Gartner 304

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. How do you define the metrics that matter?

Procurement Analytics 279

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?”

Supply Chain Planning Software 386

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 29, 2014

As a result, the metrics have to be viewed together as a pattern over time. In the journey, the supply chain leader needs to improve the potential of a portfolio of metrics. The metrics of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Inventory Turns and Operating Margin have the highest correlation to market capitalization.

Gartner 366

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

This means routinely bringing together the C-suite, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and marketing teams so everyone is seeing, working from and agreeing to an aligned plan that achieves optimal business outcomes. Assess root causes, adjust plans, and debate course corrections. Answer: you review KPIs, current and trended.

Metrics 130

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Manufacturing.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Enhancing Collaboration Capabilities Supply chain management is inherently collaborative, often requiring coordination between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Conversely, a student leaning toward supply chain analytics could engage with advanced courses in data science, predictive modeling, and optimization techniques.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

Fortunately, there are numerous courses available to help you develop your expertise in supply chain management, regardless of your level of experience. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the top 10 supply chain management courses that can take your career to the next level. Ratings of each course will also be included.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

They can then use the data to provide an apples-to-apples benchmark on a variety of innovative supply chain metrics applicable to the grocery supply chain. In other words, if manufacturers cannot deliver everything that retailers are ordering, then there is a service failure. Forecasting Accuracy Was Terrible . 2020 was different.

Supply Chain Performance 284

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A year after launching, however, a supply chain executive said to me, “ Talking Logistics is like an online Executive MBA course, with live lectures and guest speakers every week discussing timely and important topics.” I encourage you to check out the course and let us know what you think.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

Contract manufacturing or 3PL data often will have a 24-hour latency due to batch integration. When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. 2) Latency. 3) Granularity. Master data. The devil is in the details.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. We analyzed the impact of 150 factors on 493 financial metrics for the period of 2004-2016. With the flurry of M&A, industry consolidation, outsourcing, and downsizing, the gaps for North American manufacturers are increasing.

Cost Reduction Strategies 262

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Food manufacturers, over the course of the last decade, have pushed costs and waste backwards in the supply chain. billion company, manufactures glass containers with headquarters in the Midwest. It cannot be about singular metrics.

Illinois 253

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

I was surprised as I have evaluated balance sheet progress of these leaders over the course of the last year. Over the course of the last year, Abby Mayer ( @indexgirl ) worked with the Supply Chain Insights team to build a database of 20 years of information with over 50 supply chain financial ratios. Publication of our next book.

Gartner 286

Gartner S&OP Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Planning Software 286

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Over the course of the last decade, his story is the same. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Over the course of 2012, I feel that we made a lot of progress. Over the course of the last year, we had 360 individuals from over 300 companies that participated in the research process. This will be a monthly public two-day training course in manufacturing centers in Europe and the United States. And, it is working.

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Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For instance, goods move from the customer to the distributor or to the manufacturer. When a manufacturer’s product normally moves through the supply chain network, it is to reach the distributor or customer. In turn, those costs may then fall to the manufacturer. Of course, customers may opt to complete a return in-person.

Reverse Logistics 310

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

COVID of course taught companies the need for agility. There can be surprises that potentially offer a better upside: demand is higher than expected, it is possible to raise prices without affecting demand based on what is happening with competitor products, technology has allowed manufacturing capacity to ramp up faster than expected, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Products, of course, can be picked up at the branches. In the annual report where they report on their key performance indicators (KPIs), they don’t just report on core financial metrics and the NPS, they also have people metrics. The company has shown sustained improvement on this metric. Across the US, Ferguson has 6.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. export regulations led to supply chain disruptions. That’s all for this week.

Cost Reduction Strategies 301

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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. These are mainly North American-based manufacturers, distributors and retailers.) Correlations Between Survey Factors and Financial Metrics. Shown in Figure 1 is an example of resiliency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Of course not… But, the industry is in a group think. Tomorrow, I get to deliver this message to a large manufacturing client. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

Procurement Analytics 120

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Over the next five weeks, seventy business/technology and consulting leaders will complete the course. Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. As companies adopt a balanced scorecard, the functional metrics shift to a focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

” CFO of a major manufacturer. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. In High-tech, there is greater ownership of the “inventory metric” across the organization. A decade ago, the supply chain had two buffers: inventory and manufacturing. I am a skeptic. I want to believe. I really do.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

Whether you’re an aspiring procurement enthusiast or a seasoned professional aiming to advance your career, investing in procurement training and procurement training courses can be a game-changer. Take into account things like your current skill level, desired improvement areas, and professional objectives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards. As an industry analyst, over the course of the last ten years, I have worked with all of these companies. Over the course of the decade, Colgate maintained margin of.21

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Over the course of the last year, I have written about this extensively. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks. They are slow to adapt.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. The metrics are also manual as automatic metric systems cannot retrieve the information at an hourly frequency as these metrics are process inputs and not outputs. Specific metrics: process metrics and outcome metrics.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 120

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Manufacturing Procurement Lean Sustainability 120

Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2014

by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy).

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2015

Customer expectations of reliable quality and rapid delivery forces today’s manufacturers to either shorten cycle times or lose business. There are multiple good models for lean manufacturing operations. “5S” programs are taught in some business college courses, and the SCOR model is also utilized.

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Manufacturing Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Waste Reduction Inventory Reduction 120

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

No company in either the household non-durable (consumer goods) or the food manufacturing group beat their peer group on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for 2013-2022. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Of course, the big challenge in this type of external benchmarking is obtaining the necessary data, since many companies are wary of sharing performance data with potential competitors. Of course, its also possible to add further tiers for even more granularity, but again, the more levels you have, the more complex your KPI solution.

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