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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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The 6 Greatest Challenges to your Supply Chain

DynaSys

Finally, be mindful of the currency expected for your receivables and payables. Regional supply chain disruptions can add another worry when payment is expected or receivables need to be covered in a foreign currency – a currency that can dramatically shift in value as the contract is being fulfilled.

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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.

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Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51 and Market6 Data

Alloy

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. In the OnDemand platform, some brands can also access a Supply Chain Scorecard that shows metrics including Days of Supply and Days of Supply Goal.

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Avoid “Lost in Translation”. Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

ToolsGroup

To achieve Stage 5, S&OP must be “a fully integrated business planning forum… (where) metrics are value-based and aligned across the network and enterprise to support the required trade-offs.”. Gartner’s research is echoed by Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights.

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