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Performance Measurement Systems in the Era of Turbulence

SCM Research

Our new article, titled Accounting for External Turbulence of Logistics Organizations via Performance Measurement Systems (Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 21 (6), 694-708 DOI: 10.1108/SCM-02-2016-0040. 6), is out now. Wallenburg, C.M., & Wieland, A.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

The development, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, involves the interviewing of passengers and crew members who were on-board the aircraft at the time of the incident. This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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Five Foolproof Ways to Shorten the Cash Conversion Cycle

Precoro

The cash conversion cycle (CCC), also called the net operating cycle, is a metric used to measure the efficiency of a company's cash management and liquidity. The cash conversion cycle is a significant financial metric for retailers and manufacturing companies involved in buying and managing inventories and selling them to customers.

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Spectra Energy Supplier Forum: Driving Collaborative Project Management

Supply Chain View from the Field

As part of this effort, I also shared some of the insights from a recent paper I published in the newly minted Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation Management. Daily metrics of on-time, project dollars spent versus budget, and key milestones on time, as well as the use of two-way scorecards are important.

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics). And as I highlighted last week, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

performance-based metrics. For example, shipments that are missing origin documents are being held up and turned away at ports, causing costly disruptions that ripple through supply chains.” Transparency milestones demonstrate how knowledgeable companies are about how activities in each of those areas are conducted. Footnotes. [1]

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

According to the press release : The proposed standards are expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 1 billion metric tons, cut fuel costs by about $170 billion, and reduce oil consumption by up to 1.8 billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program.