Electronics Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Metrics 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 28, 2015
Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. The results for the high tech and electronics industry is shown in Figure 1.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 9, 2020
As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. The reason? The problem?
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Supply Chain Insights
JANUARY 18, 2018
For the purposes of clarity, in this article, the term digital supply chain is the transformation of the atoms and electrons within the supply chain to unleash new levels of value. Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. It feels a bit like tulip mania. Confluence of Technologies.
SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
In fact it is often such a forgotten category that operations personnel are often left to fend for themselves in buying and securing supply. As such it can, out of necessity, become a source of rogue buying behaviour and risky purchases. But this is excellent experience and a great development platform.
BlueYonder
MAY 18, 2023
More recently we hear about the lack of or inability to supply semiconductors due to lockdowns in areas that produce them, which means we couldn’t get the electronics we want, such as new smartphones or even cars, or that the prices of those had risen significantly. This in the end will decrease carbon impact and help towards net zero goals.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. High-Tech and Electronic Supply Networks.
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