Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2014

Their supply chains are not improving corporate performance. Despite multimillion dollar technology projects, and tomes of strategy documents, they are stuck in their ability to overcome market factors and rising complexity to drive continuous improvement on a portfolio of metrics. What does that mean?

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 20, 2020

There are a few things that most food ingredient suppliers can do to increase supply chain performance. Analyze Your Supply Chain Network. Enhance Supply Chain Visibility. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are an essential part of making logistics improvements. Know Your Customers.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

performance-based metrics. Bateman and Bonanni explain, “A lack of supply chain transparency can now stop businesses cold. 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.”

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are an essential part of increasing visibility into your supply chain. After all, they designate how your supply chain is performing. Although the above suggestions for improving supply chain performance vary, they have one fundamental similarity.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

But before you start measuring everything in sight – and a few things not in sight – start with a set of thoughtful intentions and questions that will guide you to the right set of metrics and the right set of expectations. Cash-Cash Cycle Time; Return on SC Fixed Assets; Return on Working Capital ASCM SCOR Metrics, Supply Chain Council.

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Unleashed

MARCH 28, 2021

When done properly SRM can achieve greater efficiencies, reduce wholesale costs, and optimise supply chain performance. Optimises performance. Supplier scorecards help businesses to maintain profitable, metrics-based supply chains. Supplier relationship management can: Mitigates risk. Reduces costs.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This implies that you’ve got collaboration with your demand creation and demand performance functions. The pillars of the performance management house of excellence are process-oriented metrics. They are consistently adopting new technologies to innovate their supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. About twice a month, companies ask me to review their strategy documents. I am on a mission.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to a 2019 McKinsey report¹, “Among top-quartile supply-chain performers, strategic investment in supply chain correlates with strong financial results. Great supply chain management systems: Integrate the entire supply chain, from external suppliers to the recovery buyers who buy your surplus assets.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to a 2019 McKinsey report¹, “Among top-quartile supply-chain performers, strategic investment in supply chain correlates with strong financial results. Great supply chain management systems: Integrate the entire supply chain, from external suppliers to the recovery buyers who buy your surplus assets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Our aim was to maintain a 3 to 3.5

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The term IBP gained popularity in the 2000s to connote a more strategic and truly cross-functional management process (including marketing, product development and finance, in addition to sales and operations) aimed not just at improving supply chain performance but achieving overall company goals.

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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are reaching a new level of results in 2018 because they have clearer, more actionable insights based on real-time manufacturing and quality metrics than ever before. Quality Metrics Enable Customer-Driven Manufacturing Networks. Quality Metrics Defining the Future of Manufacturing.

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QAD

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Role of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Many companies still rely on outdated processes or fail to understand the role supplier relationship management (SRM) plays in maximizing supply chain performance.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 28, 2017

How do you account for Free Time across your global supply chain? This is where metrics can get a little fuzzy. However, the reality was that the 4% metric was misleading. Complicating matters even further are carrier, port, regional, and government variances in how Free Time is measured around the world. Automation.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Improving supply chain efficiency is a continuous and iterative process, that needs to be measured, reviewed and tweaked in order to stay effective. There are many supply chain performance measurement metrics to help do this, however, commonly used is the Perfect Order Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I urged him to take his corporate strategy document and set up a meeting with each profit center manager. We discussed the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter research and the fact that a balanced portfolio of metrics drives a higher market capitalization than a focus on functional metrics or single metrics.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 30, 2020

Benchmark — In logistics, benchmarks refer to KPI thresholds set by an organization to measure supply chain performance. Billing — A process typically performed by the carrier that determines the total charges for a completed order. The metric is used to establish pricing for a transported order.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. In this article, I want to emphasize that a customer-centric supply chain meets and exceeds the customer’s needs day-by-day based on a well-defined relationship against a brand promise.

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2023

More and more unstructured data, such as data from documents or from within messages, has the potential to provide more powerful insights to the organization. Increasing availability of data ensures that organizations can make decisions in shorter timeframes and be assured that they will have a positive impact on performance.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The past few years have seen a significant focus on supply chain visibility. To really improve supply chain performance, companies need a consolidated view of the end-to-end supply chain, and the ability to leverage that visibility for deep analysis and quick action.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2016

You might expect that an article section on supply chain strategy would contain some pretty complicated concepts and ideas. If so, prepare to be surprised, because it doesn’t get any more basic than this: Your company must have a documented and commonly understood supply chain strategy. “What?”

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