Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A ‘big bang’ approach, applying a one-size-fits-all AI solution, is not viable in an environment where industrial-grade solutions are needed to meet health, safety, and sustainability goals, Mr. Masson points out. Not all the transactional data, just the data required to calculate a metric or make a decision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The logistics and supply chain industry is a critical component of global trade, responsible for moving goods and materials efficiently to meet consumer and business demands. Market Differentiation: Meeting consumer and investor demand for sustainability strengthens brand reputation and market position.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Standard sizes and categorizations play a crucial role in determining the costs associated with shipping products that meet standard criteria in fulfillment centers. The ability to meet fulfillment goals is impeded by several issues. For suppliers, the penalties associated with missing OTIF goals can be significant.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Protecting sensitive data—such as vehicle locations, driver information, and operational metrics—requires rigorous cybersecurity measures. This proactive approach will make fleets more adaptable and dependable, meeting the demands of today’s global supply chain. The post Fleet Management 2.0:

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

Built-In Sustainability Reporting Some orchestration tools are adding carbon tracking or energy use metrics alongside cost and delivery performance data. Organizations that approach orchestration as a continuous process are better equipped to manage variability, reduce inefficiencies, and meet service commitments reliably.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 17, 2025

Functional metrics align to bonus incentives, but progress in supply chains remains evasive. Automating functional metrics like OEE or PPV or reducing functional costs with agentic AI accelerates waste by throwing the supply chain out-of-balance. Most requests lead to ad-hoc work and meetings. Build the governance model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 12, 2025

Every day, I got a notecard of meetings to attend. Teams make recommendations based on latent data to their managers, but decisions are often bogged down in meetings and corporate politics. Form and socialize your own hierarchy of metrics. Here is the metrics framework that I am using at present in my outside-in classes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Customer-Centric Supply Chain.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll examine the key components of efficient supply chains, explore essential performance metrics, and uncover the fundamental drivers that influence efficiency. Effectiveness emphasizes meeting strategic objectives and customer expectations. This post delves into the core drivers of supply chain efficiency.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 3, 2025

Meeting Demand Surges in the Restaurant Supply Chain Peak demand days—such as National Hamburger Day or Super Bowl Sunday—create major stress on restaurant and foodservice logistics. In today’s competitive landscape, AI-powered solutions are quickly becoming essential to optimize food supply chain performance and meet demand with precision.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 18, 2025

Metrics like service-level agreements (SLAs), total delivered cost or revenue growth may remain the driving objective function, but this also enables a broader understanding of impact on additional imperatives such as sustainability, regulatory, or new product initiatives. Proactive rather than reactive firefighting.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Measuring and Improving Procurement Strategy Performance A successful procurement strategy is data-driven andsupports continuous improvement across key metrics such as cost savings, supplier performance, delivery reliability, and ESG compliance. Platforms should support structured collaboration from intake management to invoice automation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A shift from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard. I like the use of growth, margin, inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital, customer service and ESG metrics. The focus on functional metrics sub-optimizes balance sheet results. Funny, isn’t it? Not Paying Attention to Process Latency. The result?

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Measuring and Improving Procurement Strategy Performance A successful procurement strategy is data-driven andsupports continuous improvement across key metrics such as cost savings, supplier performance, delivery reliability, and ESG compliance. Platforms should support structured collaboration from intake management to invoice automation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics. In most organizations, there is a dashboard of functional metrics that shows all of the functions operating in the “Green” or acceptable levels until it comes to customer service. What are functional metrics?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2024

How aligned do you believe your organization is to drive these metrics? Leaders align metrics and processes to focus on customer service reliability and hold all teams accountable for a balanced scorecard of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and Orders Filled On-time and Complete (OTIF). (

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2025

However, exports are now subject to quotas and must meet origin requirements, including “melted and poured” conditions. beef from 1,000 to 13,000 metric tons , removing the 20% tariff within that limit. Further details on derivative product eligibility and quota volumes have not been published.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 26, 2025

These breakdowns accumulate and threaten the ability to meet delivery commitments. For instance, metrics like cycle time reveal how long it takes to complete each unit, helping teams identify steps that slow down output. Conclusion Meeting production deadlines depends on more than speed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

My Monday morning staff meetings could have been a Saturday night live skit. Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. The So What?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Meeting the market needs of COVID-19 caused organizations to rally, work together, and build a better supply chain through brute force. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics. The So What? Let’s Give Science a Chance. It is a time when we can build better.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. The blue in Table 4 highlights underperformance, while the yellow highlights mark the companies meeting the criteria for both analyses.

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Taulia

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How are companies rethinking their liquidity management strategies in response to the recent degradation across major working capital metrics? In the wake of economic uncertainty, many companies have experienced a degradation in key working capital metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

We speak about the need to move from a functional understanding to a global, holistic capabilities, but the traditional supply chain leader defines bonus incentives and process performance goals based on functional metrics. Measurement. Organizations speak of the bullwhip, but don’t measure it or monitor the effects.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

A responsive supply chain can help to ensure that you always meet customer demand, even if you face inevitable obstances. Performance Management Having just three key metrics at each organisational level is a good idea for performance management in logistics. what we found was shocking.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. Abandon the processes focused on multiple layers of meetings to improve collaboration of organizations that are not aligned, but focused on transactional data. Tougher than most understand. History is a poor guide for the future.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Combine data from: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems Transportation Management Systems (TMS) Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Internet of Things (IoT) sensors Supplier portals Customer relationship management systems (CRM) Performance Metrics and KPIs Performance metrics measure how effective your supply chain is.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 3, 2024

If you don’t, you risk choosing the wrong distributor partner and, for example, the market entry fails to meet expectations. Internal Perspective: Performance Monitoring: KPIs and Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor distributor performance. Maintain a positive and productive relationship with distributors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2024

In the early 2020s, Microsoft’s transportation and logistics team needed to meet growing demand for cloud services while managing carbon, cost and cycle time. A clear goal needs to be combined with good data and metrics. Users can only take action once they have the goal, visible data, and metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) Look for the full report next week.).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

As regulations across the globe strengthen, the pressure to collect, report, and organize emission-related metrics has never been higher. This will urge companies to verify their emissions upstream, internally, and downstream to meet regulatory needs and the increased demands for verifiable data for their downstream customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite legislation, in 2022, the world generated 62 million metric tons of e-waste, according to the United Nations Global E-waste Monitor. million 40-metric-ton trucks which, if placed bumper-to-bumper, would form a line long enough to wrap around the equator. This waste could fill more than 1.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

These ABC segments can also be used for setting up service level targets or availability targets which then determine the safety stocks for ensuring there are enough stocks to meet the fluctuating demand for those groups of products that are critical to business. However, using metrics that can be easily tracked and updated is recommended.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dependencies on suppliers who cant meet increased demand can lead to material shortages and production delays. Production Capacity Analysis While traditional testing methods can be time-consuming and offer incomplete data, focusing on key production metrics within the manufacturing process provides more actionable insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

I am embarrassed to ask, but we were discussing the topic at our board meeting yesterday, and I must admit that we have more confusion than clarity.”. The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics. What is an easy definition? For me, this type discussion is the norm. Design Thinking.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, what KPIs, as metrics and indicators derived from the set of plans are taken into account and prepared for each scenario. In essence, this includes the entire chain of supply, production, storage, distribution and finally, the customer, so that the plans make sense all involved parties. Technology for Effective Planning.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Identify metrics, analytics and projects to drive business improvements. When science and the digitalization of manufacturing meet on the factory floor, it leads to what Scott Galloway of NYU Stern says: “Coronavirus is the great accelerator”. One place to start is in assembling a well-represented, well-formed steering committee.

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