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Traditional Retail Performance Metrics Aren’t Measuring Up

Logility

It may not be the news you were hoping for, but traditional retail success metrics are fast becoming obsolete in today’s economy. The current suite of metrics were built for a time that no longer exists. Knowing they couldn’t match New York’s money, Beane and James attacked the problem with metrics. His commitment never wavered.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Oakland, California, Infor Nexus , reportedly, is the developer and operator of the largest cloud supply chain platform of its kind, with over $100 billion in goods managed annually and over 25,000 active trading organizations across all major industries. million daily shipments. Infor Nexus.

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5 Signs You Need Advanced Supply Chain Analytics to Make Better Last-Mile Decisions

Locus

All it took Billy Beane from Oakland A’s to break the myth that more money can win more games was data. With Locus’ dispatch management software , your stakeholders can quickly source on-ground data and delivery metrics to evaluate delivery performance. You can easily relate to the movie that was inspired by this book- Moneyball.

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“Moneyball” and Your Business

Supply Chain Action Blog

A while back, the film “Moneyball” showed us how the Oakland A’s built a super-competitive sports franchise on analytics, essentially “ competing on analytics ”, within relevant business parameters of a major league baseball franchise. Simple, but powerful, self-service configuration beyond out-of-the-box metrics. Root cause analysis.

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How Tianjin's Aftermath is Affecting West Coast Ports

Elementum

The Port of Oakland, on the other hand, posted an increase of 8.7 To get back on track, the Port of Oakland announced that they are hiring 400 more workers to ensure the speed and efficiency to customers. Port traffic has always been a good metric of overall economic health. Put the two together, though, and you’ve got a 5.4

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Siemens BT: Every analytical transformation requires a “Jonah Hill”

NC State SCRC

In the movie, the new coach of the Oakland A’s baseball team uses analytics to build his organization from the ground up. We created a visualization platform to focus on internal operational, and customer-facing metrics, which is NOT part of R&D’s scope of work – so we not on your turf.”