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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

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. This will begin to impact the semi/HDD ability to raise capital and innovate/expand. by CJ Wehlage.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. Some suppliers of demand management software can also provide excellent forecast benchmarking for selected industries. There need to be long-term forecasts examining what demand is expected over the coming year or years.

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Supply Chain Metrics: Make Sure They Are Aligned with Your Strategy!

Supply Chain View from the Field

Many people are talking about Key Performance Indicators, Metrics, Analytics, and other indicators of performance. The importance of selecting the right metrics or “measures” as I prefer to call them, is critical as we all know that metrics drive behaviors. Step 2 – Develop Metrics and Data Sources.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The metrics shown in Figure 1 are difficult to improve together. Most companies improve singular metrics but are not able to drive portfolio.

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American Software Reports Third Quarterof Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

and Demand Management, Inc., This marks Logility’s seventeenth year and Demand Management’s thirteenth year of recognition. Logility was recognized for helping retail customers by delivering innovative technology and offering exceptional support as they faced unparalleled challenges in the past two years.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

With the evolution of NoSQL–Graph and Cognitive Ontological learning–models can now manage multiple data sources as inputs while driving a forecast to multiple roles simultaneously in role-based views. However, the approach is new and poorly understood, and only 7% of consumer products companies are innovators.

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The Benefits of Unified Commerce and How it Can Maximize the Customer Experience

ShipBob

Having a single source of truth offers businesses an easy way to view how much inventory is coming in or going out, how many sales are being generated from each channel, and where any bottlenecks might be occurring. Inventory managers will analyze the unified data to better forecast demand , manage stock levels, and coordinate with suppliers.