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Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

GlobalTranz

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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What Every CFO Should Know About Aligning Finance with the Supply Chain

Logility

Finance teams speak about business issues in terms of currency and margins, while supply chain operations make decisions based on volumetric conversations around units, capacity, and lead time. Integrating all corners of business planning Finance and supply chain organizations can seem worlds apart, even though they are on the same continent.

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Supply Chain Leadership V: Howard Richman

NC State SCRC

When I was there, an employee’s base pay came every 4 weeks, and it would go up based on hitting certain metrics – Net Sales and Return on Total Assets. For example, one woman was trading foreign currencies, and took a strong position on Eurodollar. Depending on whether you hit those parameters – your salary went up or down.

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SAP SE Reports Q4 and Full Year 2023 Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

SAP CEO Christien Klein noted in the company’s reporting that: “ SAP has delivered: We met or exceeded our outlook for 2023 in all key metrics.” For the SAP S/4 HANA Cloud segment, total backlog was reported as €5 billion, up 61 percent in constant currencies. billion at constant currencies in 2023. billion to €7.9

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Amplify Your Supply Chain While Capitalizing on your IT Infrastructure

Logility

Our biggest headaches were very basic – we couldn’t easily switch between metric and imperial measures, and currency conversions were a nightmare. Even then it was also difficult to generate meaningful reports from JD Edwards where it was installed. “We We still had two separate systems,” Smith said.

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Why I No Longer Believe in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

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.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Financial ratios allow us to analyze performance across the peer group (large against small companies) and across currencies. Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.