DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 11, 2021

The global wire and cable manufacturing industry is slated to be valued at US $232 billion by 2025 at an annual growth rate (AGR) of approximately 5 percent. However, gradually complex manufacturing environments may prove to be a challenge for those who struggle with demand forecasting accuracy.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We conclude our ongoing series in talking about effective KPI management by giving you a real live Logistics KPIs management case study from Whirlpool's engagement with a logistics service level provider. We started the series first by " 9 Key Topics to Understand to Frame A Shipper’s Mind for Effective KPI Management with a 3PL."

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 23, 2014

This means that creating forecasts and promotional and pricing plans must be integrated with functions including distribution, operations planning, and manufacturing. KPI-based planning: It’s easier than you think. Tip 7: Optimize plans based on critical KPIs. Learn what it takes to become a demand forecasting expert.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In select sites, Trane Technologies leverages cutting-edge manufacturing technology allowing the company to improve response times, reduce project life cycles, optimize production processes and enhance facility footprints. “ Trane Technologies is developing shop floor digital twins to optimize all manufacturing process development.”

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

KPIs in Supply Chain The Basics As in any business activity, supply chain operations need to focus doggedly on improvement to compete in the marketplace, but how do you know if your supply chain performance is satisfactory or getting better or, god forbid, worsening? Thats where KPIs come in. Whats a KPI Anyway?

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 23, 2020

We empower metals manufacturers with a solution that can generate the best plan for the future, by: Incorporating all constraints, business rules, regulations and preferences. This is where DELMIA Quintiq excels. Generating what-if scenarios to imagine possible futures that are aligned with your goals.

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QAD

APRIL 2, 2020

This latest release further enhances our customers’ ability to intelligently adopt and boost adaptive manufacturing capabilities. Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises can effectively address the increasing pace of change and disruption companies face today.

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Silvon Software

JUNE 23, 2020

As I mentioned in my previous post, Sales Dashboards – 16 Metrics for Manufacturers , a strategy for measuring business performance should also incorporate metrics that focus on the supply chain and other operational areas of the enterprise. Nevertheless, measuring supply chain performance is critical for a manufacturing concern.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 30, 2020

KPI-specific planning The quality of the generated plan is measured against various company-specific KPIs, ensuring adherence to the most significant business goals. Sustainability-focused planning The solution supports management of electric vehicles and low-emission zones through CO 2 emission-based optimization.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The process brings together all the plans for the business (sales, marketing, development, manufacturing, sourcing, and financial) into one integrated set of plans.” Ultimately, they were able to increase their statistical forecast accuracy by 3.2% (KPI: WMAPE) within six months of the French pilot project’s beginning.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 25, 2015

To meet consumers’ increasing appetite for choice, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers develop a huge amount of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). This has a direct impact on packaging manufacturers who now need to find ways to cope with more diverse demand. What should change? The packaging market is very dynamic.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Namely, manufacturing, food, and healthcare. Our solution enabled them to make KPI-based decisions, implement resilient optimization and smoothen exception management. How much do our respondents know about S&OE and how satisfied are they? Among respondents, 76% said they were familiar with S&OE.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 4, 2021

It offers all supply chain partners new ways of collaborating, smarter methods for managing data, more actionable KPI monitoring and faster decision making based on simulating what-if scenarios, to keep pace with all changes in supply and demand.

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ThroughPut

MAY 9, 2025

Summary of the Impact: A global, 130-year-old food and beverage manufacturer deployed ThroughPuts AI in food manufacturing platform – a powerful Supply Chain Decision Intelligence solution – to eliminate unplanned machine outages and unlock major operational gains. Why AI in Food Manufacturing Was the Right Solution?

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability. The right KPIs depend on your companys unique needs and goals. Thats where data-driven decision-making comes in!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2023

Adding this key performance indicator (KPI) to your supply chain allows businesses to measure themselves while being able to evaluate the performance of all the participants in the commerce ecosystem. How to measure OTIF: OTIF measurements pose challenges for organizations regardless of their type or industry.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. Improving those KPIs would help them emerge stronger and more confident with supply chains that are more resilient to future disruptions.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 23, 2016

Meat manufacturers usually suffer from the lack of cross-functional visibility as well as cross-company visibility. What is distracting meat manufacturers from building efficient plans? It’s also a very important topic for meat manufacturers, and it’s also a difficult one as shelf life changes throughout the production process.

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QAD

JUNE 18, 2019

Manufacturers can miss opportunities to adapt due to their lack of speed in responding to disruptive forces, under-investing in new growth areas or applying existing business models to new markets. How will Manufacturers Survive Disruption? It’s all about how manufacturers are able to prepare themselves for future change.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 19, 2022

To generate true, actionable insights, it is crucial to deploy KPI metrics together with a single source of truth to produce actionable insights that can drive performance results. I also suggest to our clients that they keep the following basic principles in mind relative to their KPI strategies. Supplier KPIs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

This data includes sales data, inventory data, open orders, master data for products (including their attributes and shelf lives for fresh and ultra-fresh), assortments at each location, and bill of materials for manufacturing or kit assembly. Master data related to locations where inventory is held is another important piece of data.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

To start you must have the KPI's visual along the value stream. In order to be daily, the KPIs need to get down to ownership by the workers within the value stream. If heat is known to vary causing defects when special causes arise then you should see an effect on the overall quality (the next level KPI).

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SCMDOJO

MAY 26, 2025

Beyond automation, digital systems like Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) provide real-time visibility into production activities. Project management software for manufacturing environments can also centralize scheduling, task assignments, and workflow visibility. Hence, automating these functions ensures greater consistency.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 1, 2014

Manufacturing costs are the lowest amongst the peer group of similar companies. Production line efficiency is well above the manufacturer name-plate specification. Overall Supply Chain efficiency is monitored through a short list of highly relevant and stretching KPI targets. No month-end Sales target push! What an organisation!

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Silvon Software

JULY 22, 2022

In fact, such KPIs are so crucial right now that the supply chain analytics market is expected to reach nearly $17 billion by 2027 as companies ramp up their supply chain performance management initiatives. Why is KPI tracking so important in supply chain management? Top-Line KPIs and Metrics for Supply Chain Management.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Power Up with Agile Battery Cell Manufacturing. Read more and discover the Virtual Twin Experience and how it improves battery cell manufacturing processes. Manufacturing Operations Management Community. What Industry Leaders Have to Say About Virtual Twins in Manufacturing. We look forward to seeing you there!

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 14, 2017

The onset of robotics, intelligent manufacturing and data-driven optimization enables standardization of processes crossing supply, production and distribution irrespective of product lines and categories. Underpinning all four steps is a critical fact: If you want to transform your business, you can’t do it with your legacy KPI structure.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 14, 2017

is gathering force and it needs to be carefully monitored as it will upset the manufacturing world as you know it. should be viewed as the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector. North American manufacturers are not asleep at the switch either. Have a closer look at it and you will realize that Industry 4.0

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2023

This Distribution Operations Assessment tool can be used by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Principal Corporates, and distributors themselves to gain insight into materials management and logistics knowledge, identify gaps in skills and knowledge, and foster critical thinking and self-awareness.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. The Molex Supply Chain.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 9, 2021

Company Planner’s KPI. In manufacturing, it is essential to measure the performance of the production facility to evaluate the organization and its success. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are often used to do this. Manufacturing Operations Management. Planning & Optimization Community. Click to keep reading.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I was talking with a practitioner last week who was the internal champion that brought Logility Voyager Solutions into a leading flooring manufacturer. He started by building a KPI set that combined basic data from their transaction systems with demand and supply chain planning data from Logility. This business was set in its ways.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I was talking with a practitioner last week who was the internal champion that brought Logility Voyager Solutions into a leading flooring manufacturer. He started by building a KPI set that combined basic data from their transaction systems with demand and supply chain planning data from Logility. This business was set in its ways.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2017

What is a KPI? What is a KPI? Can you explain what a KPI is? Take the notion of a KPI or key performance indicator, for example. You’ll hear a lot in different organisations about KPIs, but that doesn’t mean they are always used effectively. As the name indicates, KPIs concern “key” areas of the business.

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Unleashed

JUNE 8, 2020

may sound exciting for manufacturers – with its IoT-enabled factories, all-singing all-dancing ERP software, and AI-powered insights – but frankly this is fantasy land for the vast majority of manufacturers. Here are three realistic steps manufacturers can take for data mastery in 2020. KPIs are real-time and comparative.

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Silvon Software

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this 3-minute post, we examine some key business objectives and cascading KPIs that can be used to analyze performance to the objectives. While many of the KPI examples focus on performance management for manufacturing and distribution businesses, they also apply to numerous other industries with similar operational structures.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The components of the perfect order KPI are as follows: On-time delivery: A calculation of the percentage of sales orders that arrive on time. In full delivery: This KPI tracks the percentage of sales orders that are delivered completely, meaning that the customer receives the correct items, in the right quantities.

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