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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Kinaxis

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. On September 5, 163 metric tons of relief supplies arrived via air shipments, including 86 tons of high-energy biscuits, 30,000 blankets, 25,000 sleeping mats, and 1,000 solar lanterns.

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Managing for Daily Improvement: Bridging the Gap Across Teams and KPIs

Talking Logistics

Due to the enhanced visibility of data and metrics across peer groups, sales leads have improved their customer service by walking prospective customers through the operations process and comfortably answering any queries on how success is measured. Overall, MDI provides organizations with key takeaways and measured KPIs.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Let me try to clarify.

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