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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

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Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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[WHITE PAPER] 4 Strategic Considerations when Considering Offshoring Parts of your Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Lured by the promise of cheaper labor ( which is starting to not be the case ), companies are blind to the tactical costs of manufacturing overseas. White Paper: Hidden Risks and Costs in an Offshore Supply Chain. Despite these and other hidden costs, offshore manufacturing has become a fact of life. Research first.

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What Is Transportation Optimization and What Does It Have to Do With Managed Transportation

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That means identifying areas of waste, overlap and large volumes and enabling continuous improvement through the use of transportation metrics to track performance. Download the White Paper: Transportation Optimization: Its Strategic Role in Transportation Management. Learn More.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

I see a preponderance of reports and white papers that have lots of pages but say little. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party.

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Supply Chain Metrics - Gaining Visibility in a Data-rich World

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The second part of Drucker’s quote, “if you can't measure it, you can't improve it,” really brings home the importance of having the right set of metrics. In the field of supply chain management, we have created an abundance of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). requires a different set of metrics.

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Aligning Metrics to Strategy

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When we began our metrics discussion, we talked about how behaviors are too often dictated by metrics—and whether or not these behaviors actually “move the needle” for sustainable supply chain improvements. Mark Davidson’s blog about aligning metrics to larger goals and objectives covers this topic well. Don’t miss the boat.).

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Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

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In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.