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Lora Cecere on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter

AIMMS

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Metrics that Matter became a three year research project. I realized that many organizations are very confused about metrics. So I started this book as a summary of this research.

Metrics 120
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Give Analytics A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. ” The answer is complicated and multi-faceted.

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Give Analytics A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Container inventory is imbalanced. Fourteen of twenty-eight industries have rising inventories. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. ” The answer is complicated and multi-faceted.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Management Fault Line

Supply Chain Shaman

Drones in warehouses using machine learning for real-time inventory and self-driving vehicles are transforming logistics. Stalled progress on metrics: 90% of companies find themselves stuck on key supply chain metrics (cost, inventory, growth, ROIC). If you are in the United States have a great Thanksgiving.

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Mush

Supply Chain Shaman

It sits until the gel forms a semisolid state. In the United States, we lick it up with maple syrup or molasses, while in Eastern Europe it is served cold. I just don’t think the comparison of very different industries in a spreadsheet based on growth, inventory values, and Return on Assets (ROA) is meaningful.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. The new trend to be sustainable is part of the current category: Revenue Growth, so why add another category like CSR when we should be moving towards the core supply chain metrics of total delivered cost and customer service.

Gartner 100
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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

The number of online shoppers in the United States reached 209.6 ”[1] The fact is the digital path to purchase is growing globally — not just in the United States. That same year, “Compuserve launched a service called the Electronic Mall. million in 2016. It’s estimated to reach 230.5