Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

The supply chain is complex non-linear system that is easily thrown out of balance through a focus on functional metrics. They rock back and forth in improving singular metrics but struggle to improve a portfolio of growth, margin, inventory performance, and asset utilization. Stop the Focus on Functional Metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

IoT sensors also track environmental conditions, ensuring product quality during transit. Set Measurable Goals: Establish clear targets for emissions reduction, energy efficiency, and sustainability metrics. Internet of Things (IoT): IoT devices monitor vehicle performance and energy usage, enabling real-time optimization.

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Logility

MAY 22, 2020

The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data governance often don’t exist from department to department or user to user, leaving an overall picture into the health of the business that is foggy because KPIs and metrics do not correlate across the organization. A great example of this comes from a Logility customer.

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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. Companies such as UPS, FedEx, Amazon Logistics, Summit Materials, and Sobeys demonstrate that centralized, data-driven fleet management drives down costs, enhances safety, and strengthens service quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

According to my research, top-performing supply chains possess three very different qualities. A supply chain that produces products at the same cost, quality and customer service given the level of demand and supply volatility. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Focus functional metrics to improving reliability.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A supply chain event can have a massive impact on operations and production quality and leave customers in the lurch, impacting customer satisfaction, revenue, and profits. Tracking the Metrics that Matter. Inflation Metrics. Tracking this metric and taking steps to improve it can help combat inflation. Risk Metrics.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Balancing increased demand with consistent quality and controlled costs is difficult but essential for manufacturers looking to expand. This requires a strategic approach focused on efficiency, quality control, and sustainable growth. Quality Control: Higher volumes create more opportunities for defects.

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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.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Quality management is one of those things that you only realize the importance of when it does not work. When quality controls are on track, they improve efficiency and cost, and things hum along. But when they go awry, quality issues can drive up material and labor costs, threaten margins, and result in missed orders.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 10, 2023

However, the success of an ERP system largely depends on the quality of its master data. Poor quality master data can lead to errors, delays, and inconsistencies, which can have serious implications for an organization’s bottom line. These systems help organizations to manage their resources more efficiently and effectively.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Further, when they began thinking about a platform to detect and react to equipment anomalies, they realized those capabilities would support safety, better product quality, and production optimization. They realized the ROI associated with that could be massive. Al Syed elaborated.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This process takes raw data from your factory floor everything from the hum of machines to the quality checks performed by your team and turns it into actionable intelligence. Here’s a breakdown of the key data types: Production Metrics: These tell you how much you’re producing and how efficiently.

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. A planning master data layer measures and tracks shifts in lead times, conversion rates, and quality. Tougher than most understand. United States Inflation Rates and GDP Inflation is the highest in forty years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

Not All Data is Created Equal Just as a gourmet meal requires the perfect quantity and quality of ingredients, your AI-powered supply chain needs the right mix of data to work its magic. Assess the quality, granularity, timeliness, and relevance of each data source to determine its suitability for AI-driven analysis.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Quality Assurance: S&OP can help ensure that suppliers meet the quality standards required for new products, preventing costly recalls or product failures. Moreover, S&OP fosters a sense of shared responsibility for quality across the organization and its suppliers. Keep Reading to unlock a 50% discount code!

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 29, 2025

Supply chain reports are data-driven documents that provide key metrics and insights into various aspects of your supply chain, including: Inventory Levels Tracking stock levels in real-time to ensure adequate inventory to meet demand while minimizing holding costs. Cost: Pricing competitiveness, cost of quality (e.g.,

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This blog explains The Key MRP Metrics in Supply Chain whcih every supply chain professional in Manufacturing or Distribution Businesses. The metrics that underpin MRP could be described as the balls in this juggling act. This article takes an in-depth look at the crucial metrics every supply chain professional needs to know.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. I define agility as the organizations capabilities to have the same cost, quality, and levels of customer services given the level of demand and supply variability.) The So What?

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QAD

JUNE 22, 2023

Consistently meeting or exceeding customer expectations is critical for building a loyal customer base and eking out a competitive advantage in today’s rapidly-changing marketplace, but it’s also the key to minimizing waste, maximizing operational efficiency and realizing a low cost of quality (COQ) that keeps profit margins high.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Like any intelligent system, your LMS is only as smart as the quality of content you feed it and the ability to quantify that information. The latter refers to a single variable standard (SVS), by which one metric, such as cases per hour, is expected to tell all. Every change in the routine requires another change in your SVS.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

By fostering these relationships, businesses can ensure stable supply chains, consistent quality, and even access to supplier innovations. Improving Cost and Quality Every decision in strategic sourcing impacts the total cost of ownership, the quality of goods or services, and supply chain resilience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics. Quality data. This is a control center to mine consumer review data to control supplier part quality. Companies are drowning in data, but struggle to get insights. Warranty data. These are all great candidates for listening.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These systems also support phased implementation, allowing you to start with high-priority processes, train staff during regular work hours, deploy your wireless infrastructure before software rollout, maintain parallel systems during the initial transition, and closely monitor performance metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data quality — Most information is either found indirectly or self-reported by suppliers, and data are reported at various intervals, from weekly to annually. Thus, organizations must make sure that data are complete, accurate, timely, and consistent as well as capture the required metrics. Next, the enterprise can set targets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization. As a result of the research with ASU, I settled on the combination of growth, margin, inventory turns, and ROIC for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While working on this at Walmart, we created a hypothesis: if highly perishable produce is moved through a supply chain faster, it will improve the customer freshness perspective because the produce will be of a higher quality. The same “If” statement was repeated for a host of financial and operational metrics.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Therefore, the challenge to establish ranking method is to find more economical data source and unbiased metric. Quality of Supply Chain Management Programs: to select a graduate program, the publications of professor are one of the indicators that reflect the quality of a program.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 25, 2019

Without baseline metrics on what you want to improve on and why, how can you be confident your strategy is working? And because machine learning systems get smarter over time, having a consistent method of measurement is even more important to ensure you can accurately track how outcomes and ROI are improving against established metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

We selected these metrics based on correlation work with Arizona State University in 2012. The winners drove long-term value (measured by market capitalization) while outperforming on the portfolio of metrics shown in Figure 1 and driving improvement faster than their peer groups. Celebrating Success. Target Setting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

The trade with Asia we take for granted today was only possible by mitigating a significant supply chain trade-off – reducing costs without appreciable impacts to quality and service. AND with growing concern about climate change, trade-off considerations must account for cost, quality, service, and now sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services. By working closely with suppliers, organizations can improve the quality and reliability of their in-bound supply chains, reduce costs, and increase their overall efficiency.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 15, 2020

Clean vehicles have a direct impact on the air quality of the customer’s living environment. Select a planning solution that can incorporate intelligent metrics and optimization technology. Retailers need a planning system that won’t force them to work in siloes and leave them with little control of the planning process.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. While Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may be reviewed quarterly or monthly, the speed with which supply chain operations occur makes a daily view of more tactical and operational metrics a growing necessity.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Generative AI and LLMs have potential benefits but face challenges such as data quality across large data sets and ethical implications with bias, fairness, and transparency. To ensure successful integration, they should create a plan with timelines, resources, and evaluation metrics (refer Figure 2).

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This ongoing assessment ensures that future supply chain professionals remain adaptable and committed to lifelong learning, qualities that are essential in a rapidly evolving industry. Similarly, performance metrics courses can guide learners in establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and improve supply chain efficiency.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 7, 2024

The ultimate goal of any planning process is to make high-quality decisions that enhance supply chain efficiency and performance. Improved Decision Quality : Decision-centric planning ensures that the end goal is high-quality decisions. What Is Decision-Centric Planning?

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