Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

A: Growth in technology has resulted in a proliferation of new data sources and metrics. As one example, organizations reported tracking 50% more metrics in their S&OP processes in 2024, compared to 2018. They understand how different metrics relate to each other and the organizations strategic objectives.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Gartner

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

total truck fleet operates in California and Texas alone. Texas specifically has a strategic triangle connecting Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, providing an ideal testbed with distances perfectly suited to hydrogens 500-mile range. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total. Greater than 20% of the U.S.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. And the total amount of inventory on hand to provide the next-day service that both facilities promise their customers is also much lower in the second distribution center. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Cargo

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Prepare CFOs for Cost Volatility Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. ( What do you say?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 11, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The second component of USBLC, inventory carrying costs (28.4% in 2023), were barely up from 2023 last year under the reports calculation, which includes the cost of warehousing and inventory levels but also the cost of capital (which drives the cost of holding inventory). of the total (versus 64.1% of the total, versus 28.6%

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 31, 2025

That marked the first time the vacancy rate surpassed 7% since 2014, as businesses rushed extra inventory into their existing warehouses earlier this year and then paused decision-making during the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariff rollout. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article!

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 8, 2025

Replenishment of the split case locations became the bottleneck, in part because of an issue I still have never seen a great solution for: when volumes for a wave will wipe out a location’s inventory, but the required replenishment exceeds the location’s capacity when it arrives. Where do you put the stuff?

Distribution

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

The Inventories Index registered 49.2, meaning companies in total decreased inventory in the month, but at a slower pace. A ‘too low’ status for the Customers’ Inventories Index is usually considered positive for future production.” (See Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article!

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 15, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Analysis

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 5, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

At Home opened its first location in 1979 in Schertz, Texas, and now operates in 40 states, selling rugs, furniture, bedding and kitchenware. Once that process is complete, At Home will move forward with new owners, Weston said.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 6, 2025

has signed a deal with Texas-based Noveon Magnetics Inc. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg August 6, 2025 Bloomberg General Motors Co. to secure rare-earth magnets for its full-size pickup trucks and SUVs, marking the third domestic supply contract the automaker has signed related to the critical trade dominated by China.

Material Savings

Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

Metrics

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Inventories Index registered 48.9, meaning companies in total decreased inventory in the month, and at a slower pace. The share of sector GDP with a PMI® at or below 45% is a good metric to gauge overall manufacturing weakness. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article!

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 17, 2025

ABF’s test of the Semi trounces the standard key performance indicator if taken as a stand-alone metric but also surpasses publicly available data released by carriers in earlier pilot tests and by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article!

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here is the list: Supply chain technology implementations have reduced inventory. Here they are: The Lie of Inventory Reduction. Repeatedly, I heard that supply chain applications have saved costs, reduced inventory and improved customer service. ” I played three lies and a truth with the group. The reason? They did not.

Inventory Reduction

Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I’m not sure I’ve ever talked to a Demand Solutions customer who wasn’t at least tracking their inventory levels, overstocks, stockouts, and so forth. Make it your New Year’s resolution to start using this more granular metric. Just about every company uses some kind of measures to gauge their supply chain performance.

Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

We wanted to see inventory positions around the world compared to our forecast, compared to our actual demand. Keeping up with demand changes means constantly adjusting staffing levels, inventory positions, equipment placement, employee-specific task lists and priorities, and other warehouse parameters.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. Analyzing real-time insights and historical performance using AI, delivers key metrics on availability and service levels. This is often due to lack of key information – product location, available-to-promise inventory or a realistic customer delivery date.

Supply Chain Network Software