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Key Tools and Technologies to Build the Warehouse of the Future

DELMIA Quintiq

In this new, connected world, the Warehouse of the Future is about achieving key operational metrics and exceeding customer service requirements more profitably while supporting sustainability goals. Click here to register for the webinar. for location, humidity, temperature) that are interconnected across digital networks.

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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. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results.

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Imagine the Supply Chain of the Future

Supply Chain Insights

While most companies have been able to make progress in one of these two critical metrics in the period of 2006-2013, they have not been able to make progress on both together. Will wearables, voice, internet of things, and robotics redefine warehouse management to reduce costs to pick goods by 30-40%? Think differently.

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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. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system. Functional metric orientation. Cross-functional metrics alignment.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. Yesterday, in the middle of completing charts and graphs for Chapter 7 of the book, I facilitated a webinar for Kinaxis. Why, I thought, would Kinaxis be interested in doing a webinar on women in supply chain? The Webinar. Reflections.

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The “First Five” Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017

GlobalTranz

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is no longer the newest kid on the block. This will lead to the creation of more metrics and business-intelligence tools to help improve manufacturing operations. Actionable Metrics Will Enhance Operations, Reducing Costs. Metrics are like Big Data; they can appear useless.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. In this period, a combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence on future profits, and speculation in individual stocks, made investors overlook traditional metrics in favor of confidence in future technological advancements.