Logility

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is much more than a product roadmap exercise or a debate about agile versus waterfall project management methods. To borrow an analogy from manufacturing, picture a veteran machinist reviewing a CAD drawing for a new product. We must never let the platform interfere with your success. Upstream failed downstream.

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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?

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Resilinc

APRIL 13, 2021

Institutionalizing is when the support of your stakeholders and C-level leaders deepens because they see the SCRM program is achieving its metrics. The key to Institutionalizing your SCRM program is achieving ongoing successes as measured by the metrics agreed to in the Plan—and ensuring that leaders and stakeholders validate these successes.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2023

This second in this series provides a specific focus for the now growing importance for increased operational excellence and efficiencies for companies whose products are anchored in process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

” Cognitive technology solutions, like the Enterra Global Insights and Decision Superiority System ( EGIDS ), can help companies perform important “what-if” exercises to help them anticipate and plan for the future. Often, departmental planning functions are disconnected from one another and may have conflicting goals. .

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 15, 2022

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) together with an ERP system allows manufacturers to collect the data, visualize and analyze it, and make decisions. They also know that this requires optimizing their manufacturing plants. The importance of digital manufacturing. What is Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)?

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This enables the company to manufacture and distribute its product in a way that, ideally, efficiently meets consumer demand. Beyond these ‘soft skills’, demand planning requires the ability to analyse data including internal records, manufacturer predictions, consumer trends and behaviours, and market shifts.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 16, 2018

Common sense alone tells you automobile manufacturers face different risks than cosmetics manufacturers. ”[1] The report focused on four key metrics: supplier criticality, supplier financial risk, global sourcing risk, and foreign exchange risk. Having a risk management plan in place and exercising it are essential.

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 24, 2021

However, the pandemic upended all processes that involved manufacturing, supply, and delivery of goods. This scenario raises the question: “How do we build systems that enable better demand planning for manufacturers, and what are the processes that support these?”. Why do you need new-age demand sensing to solve modern problems?

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 12, 2023

This update addresses the equally growing importance for securing and retaining needed talent for companies who are considering or have invested in more responsive Cloud based software technology supporting tactical and operational planning supporting process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2014

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. I have spent the last month working with clients that are out of balance. They quickly acknowledge that they are stuck.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Tomorrow, I get to deliver this message to a large manufacturing client. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter. Attendees will get to participate in the launch of this new simulated exercise.

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USC Consulting Group

JUNE 18, 2019

Yes, reinforcing continuous improvement through everyday exercises is essential to success. Both formalized and impromptu ideation and root-cause analysis exercises are key to achieving these outcomes. Kaizen and lean manufacturing occupy the same theoretical orbit. Embracing the Kaizen methodology ranks among the best options.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

As noted in this news cast on ABC , this research will proceed in three stages over three years, and will require significant collaboration with apparel manufacturers and brands along the way if it is to be successful. The EAI will provide a third-party metric to generate marketing media (e.g.,

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated annual greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reporting for organizations emitting over 25,000 metric tons of GHGs per year, and those in specific industries like vehicle manufacturing and industrial gas. Scope 3 emissions would result from making, manufacturing, and building this equipment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But the more intellectual exercise is to figure out what happened to create those problems in the first place. Our first full case involves a real life situation in which a mountain of unpaid invoices had suppliers rebelling and compromising the continuity of supply necessary to run a manufacturing operation.

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DiManEx

JUNE 5, 2019

Instead it’s “how can new manufacturing technologies help us solve an existing problem?” It also makes it easier to identify the metrics you want to improve and understand the foundation you need to build in order to scale. AM production lacks the standards than most traditional manufacturing technologies have.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 18, 2021

This must include the active management of highly visible metrics and measures associated with nature impacts in most industries. This governance should be exercised by all stakeholders for any organization, including government level representation. Supply Chain leaders must be at the epicentre of this change.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2020

This fact finding exercise should also include inputs from competitors, from other industries, and from all of your stakeholders. How did people manage through the situation? How did every node of the Supply Chain fare? What was the experience in every channel? What did customers and suppliers go through?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2020

Within each of these two flows there should be a small number of high impact business processes or metrics that you need to address, holistically, in order to make meaningful and significant improvements in your cash position. If you are looking to improve dozens of processes and metrics you will get stuck in the weeds.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

The most common goals of supply chain visibility include the following, but as your company completes this exercise, be sure to include quantifiable metrics: Reduce business and supply chain risk. Consider the ways rich data collection can help shape your supply chain towards lower cost and optimal performance.

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synchrono

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Through this guest blog series, my intent is to share some of my experiences implementing supplier quality and Lean manufacturing initiatives by focusing on eKanban systems. My first post offered advice for planning an eKanban rollout (advice that could be applied across any Lean manufacturing project).

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During this exercise I was hand-picked to develop and lead the Demand Planning Team for the largest of the two operating divisions. I saw how core S&OP concepts could be applied in various types of businesses, outside of the traditional legacy industries where S&OP was initially applied (manufacturing businesses).

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 27, 2014

Students will learn core processes around initial exploration and assessment of supply chain relationships, establishing metrics/expectations for the relationship, crafting and managing contracts, and sustaining continuous performance improvement in sourcing, logistics and operations.

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Proxima

MAY 15, 2020

Out of 502 participants from business owners to Directors, 86% said that they currently use sustainability as a metric to help shape decision making within their business. It’s not a one-off exercise. Pre-crisis we ran some research with Finance Leaders in the US and UK. Doing well out of doing good is the objective. .

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RFgen

DECEMBER 8, 2015

When planning distribution and manufacturing, companies need solutions in place to anticipate and prepare for external environmental concerns. If a company manufacturers winter wear, it probably needs to know how much snow the weather service predicts in the coming months. Integrate Weather Data. Create Seasonal Information.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 8, 2015

When planning distribution and manufacturing, companies need solutions in place to anticipate and prepare for external environmental concerns. If a company manufacturers winter wear, it probably needs to know how much snow the weather service predicts in the coming months. Integrate Weather Data. Create Seasonal Information.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance. This includes consistency in manufacturing operations, order-to-cash processes, and customer service. After answering the questions in the white boxes, companies can then define the process.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

Take into account elements like the length of the course, the mode of delivery (in-person, online, or mixed), the presence of interactive exercises or case studies, and the availability of opportunities for hands-on practice. Effective learning requires a well-structured curriculum that has a healthy mix of theory and practical practice.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Supply chain optimisation helps manufacturing businesses drastically reduce operational costs to improve revenue and customer satisfaction. In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four experts share their advice and experience around optimising the manufacturing supply chain. And you’d be right – they’re certainly a factor.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

To avoid the financial risks associated with planning errors, supply chain leaders and manufacturers should consider building an “insight-based” demand planning process, which brings together analytical tools and data with key human inputs across various functions. the answer might be “we know we need 1,000 pieces.”

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

They invest in new technologies and data-driven processes that allow them to exercise precise control over the business. For example, a manufacturing company loses incredible amounts of money every time an assembly line is forced to stop due to insufficient raw materials (known as a “ line down cost ”).

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 27, 2017

While this can be an interesting exercise, it oftens fails to answer the direct of question “how should the procurement process be improved?” Note our earlier comment that the types of metrics being used to assess procurement at each stage are indeed a characteristic of how far along the organization is in its transformation!)

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When you complete your exercise, you should come away with a clear list of milestones you’ll hit. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made). Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When you complete your exercise, you should come away with a clear list of milestones you’ll hit. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made). Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Excessive costs can hide anywhere in your company’s service provision or supply chain functions, including manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and customer service. If you haven’t done a segmentation exercise, that would be a positive first step towards understanding customer profitability.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

For example, a manufacturer may start to package finished goods in a way that eases handling by a logistics service provider who can then offer better prices for stocking and transport. For instance, two manufacturers pool their purchasing to buy more services more cost-efficiently from the same logistics provider.

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