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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. A crisis of this magnitude creates a mind-boggling supply chain and logistics challenge. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 million were refugees.

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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

We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. 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

We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. 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

We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Supply Chain KPIs are Essential – The Right Ones! Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Supply Chain KPI Tips. All you need to know about Supply Chain KPIs. Supply Chain KPI. Which ones to use?…

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