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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. If cost reduction is not the only thing to measuring supply chain performance, that begs the questions: "Maybe we should be measuring other Supply Chain Management activities and what would they be?". A pull system is better than a push system. Read more. .

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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. What did we find?

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Navigating the Supply Chain Management Fault Line

Supply Chain Shaman

Decision support includes all forms of planning: demand, supply, revenue, manufacturing and transportation planning. This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Robotics/wearables/the Internet of Things/additive manufacturing coalescence is redefining manufacturing.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. Procurement.

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Top 5 Trends to Know to Compete with Amazon’s Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Technology Will Reshape Procurement Practices. Better procurement practices translate into better overall sales, but the role of procurement in driving sales’ statistics will change throughout 2017. For example, Johnson & Johnson procurement professionals actively review market trends before making purchases.

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13 Important Roles of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Optimization

SCMDOJO

When businesses align production and procurement schedules with demand, they optimize their supply chain processes. Supply Network Optimization Data analytics helps provide valuable insights into different suppliers, which helps manage processes with different suppliers, warehouses, and transportation routes.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking.