Education Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Metrics 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 7, 2025
In today’s architectures and functional metrics, value optimization does not exist. And, when procurement and tactical planning operate in isolation, there is no decision support framework to guide the trade-offs especially when the functions are tethered to different and conflicting metrics. You are right. The reason?
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. Wrap-up Before you hit the show floor, educate yourself. At the session, we will discuss the choice of metrics for a balanced scorecard to improve market capitalization/employee by industry. Don’t talk generalities.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
The shifts over the last decade are profound: Is the answer a Supply Chain Center of Excellence? So, creating a Supply Chain Center of Excellence might sound like a good idea to start. Today, 56% of global multinational companies greater than 5B in revenue have a supply chain center of excellence. Lack of aligned metrics.
Logility
MAY 22, 2020
Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs. A key first step is to have buy-in at the highest level of the organization. Starting at the Top.
Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 5, 2016
As McCarthy put it, after a customer buys a bed, it’s his responsibility “to make sure we deliver it to their home brilliantly.” I see it as my job to help educate the people I work with — above, beside, and below me — to understand that the customer experience is critical.”.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. In times of uncertainty, cash is king.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.
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