Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The supply chain is a complex system with finite, and non-linear relationships between supply chain metrics that drive balance sheet results. We find that companies can improve one, but not two of the metrics. Teams struggle to drive improvement in both metrics at the same time. A Look at History. Resiliency.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

As a member of Logility’s research and development team with a specialization in generative AI, I have a front row seat to witness the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence technology. Capabilities of GenAI show the user the data source that corresponds to the answer for each question the user asks.

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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. Optimize sourcing: Focus on optimizing sourcing spend across all categories of products. This approach results in inefficiencies, higher costs, and missed opportunities.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Over the decade, based on the research, the gap between operations and commercial teams grew. The Focus Inside-out Supported by Functional Metrics. Trade-offs of commercial programs with source, make, and deliver to maximize value to the customer and improve margin.). Here I share my observations: A Focus on Cost Versus Margin.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Supply chain data can be challenging to manage due to its unstructured or semi-structured nature and the need to integrate new data sources. To ensure successful integration, they should create a plan with timelines, resources, and evaluation metrics (refer Figure 2).

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

D’Aquila is a director of research at ARC. This orientation is fundamental in determining what KPIs the company values, as many of them are far different from metrics managed by manufacturers relying on traditional views of success.”. Tesla scored the top spot, followed by Intel, BMW, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, and Eli Lilly.

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Kinaxis

JULY 18, 2014

Even if you’re not you should check out Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. For the past several years, Supply Chain Insights has been delivering this research series. The research benchmarks A&D companies against other industries and looks at the top five A&D companies over the last decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Source E2open Shipping Index). As an analyst, I conduct primary research. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. We started the conversation with sourcing. Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982. Focus on Cost. What to do?

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The “Supply Continuity – A Visual Spotlight” study, based on research conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, highlights that key challenges remain for organizations aiming to ensure supply continuity, with 30% of respondents saying they suffer from an inability to effectively assess the overall risk across suppliers.

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ivalua

AUGUST 19, 2021

Of course, over the last few years, the role of Procurement has become more visible, in large part due to broader recognition of the value and closely monitored and tracked performance metrics that are now more mainstream. Addressable Spend That is Sourced. Get your copy of the Ardent Partners Procurement Metrics That Matter in 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

In the research, I’m trying to understand the impact of choices—technology, process innovation, and leadership– on balance sheet performance. The research is independent and data-driven. For the past six years, I have analyzed public reporting and triangulated the results to the quantitative research. What have I found?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Source E2open Shipping Index). As an analyst, I conduct primary research. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. We started the conversation with sourcing. Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. In 2022 overall, U.S. billion a year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Lately, as I reflected on my conversations with John (fictitious name) when I was at AMR Research, I yearn to go back in time. AMR Research was an industry analyst firm in Boston. So, when Gartner bought AMR Research, I left and started Supply Chain Insights. We don’t believe that research should be locked behind paywalls.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Through our sponsored Forrester research and experience working with hundreds of the world’s most admired brands, we have established several key strategies to create a more resilient supply chain: 1. Data will almost certainly come from a variety of sources – the supplier, employees and a range of 3rd party sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, recent Gartner research shows that less than one-third of procurement teams are well-informed about the priorities of their business partners, and this limit’s procurement’s ability to support them, particularly when economic conditions fluctuate. This list should include the business metrics that each procurement project impacts.

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Precoro

JULY 16, 2023

These goals can be expressed as key performance indicators (KPIs) – relevant functional metrics that can be tracked regularly to make sure that the business makes purchases in an efficient way. We have selected 5 fundamental KPIs that purchasing managers should consider.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) We source this data from Y charts. Mistake #5. Measurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2017

Traditionally, the focus has been on building efficient organizational silos for make, source or deliver. However, we know from our research that efficient silos do not deliver the highest levels of balance sheet performance. As a result, tor most companies, the goals are unclear and the financial metrics are not well-understood.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Cardinal Health Supply Chain Cardinal Health’s medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products. Two Centers of Excellence – A center of excellence (CoE) is a team that provides leadership, best practices, research, support and training in a focus area.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., First the research shows that organizations who had implemented an ERP system had a higher overall level of supply chain maturity and performance.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use?

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

In 2011, a research team consists of the experts from University of Michigan and Yahoo, Inc published the article named " Everyone’s an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter ". Data Collection As you may notice, "retweet" is the key metric for influence measurement and each database adds its own secret ingredients.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2013

The relationship between corporate financial performance and supply chain metrics was complex; and in my first attempts, I was unable to derive a correlation. The year 2012 marked the 30th anniversary of the use of supply chain management as a cross-functional process for source, make and deliver in the commercial sector. Definitions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

Over the past 20 years, Nari has held VP and Director of Product Management, Research and Marketing roles at Aberdeen Group, River Logic, Steelwedge and E2open. Director of Product Segment Marketing at Coupa Software , where he brings products to markets in the areas of Direct Material Procurement and Supply Chain Design and Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Theme 1: Global supply chains will be busy, congested and chaotic. Figure 1: U.S. Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 9, 2013

As a member of the team at AMR Research that defined the AMR Top 25 Methodology, I was frustrated in the execution of what I thought could have been a good thing. It has turned into a twelve-month research project. This research was the backbone of the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter series of reports. What do I mean?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In fact, SYSPRO research revealed that 60% of businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. The SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) methodology has six high-level business activities that define the supply chain – plan, source, make, deliver, return, and enable. can be measured to define this metric.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

The most valued capability for the future according to E2open’s research, is real-time visibility into demand and inventory. It’s critical that you do, as mapping your supply chain, while challenging, will allow you to obtain and maintain critical data. The effort will absolutely pay off. Building capability and consistency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. My focus is on research. Figure 1: Supply Chain Metrics Are a Balancing Act. The metrics shown in Figure 1 are difficult to improve together. The evolution sprung from chaos. What choices drive the.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. In our work, we tie research from quantitative and qualitative studies to financial results to drive new insights. This is important.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

The new world of supply chain analytics is my current research project. Cloud and open source analytics are fueling new markets giving rise of new software providers in analytics with names like Board, Cloudera, EveryAngle, Enterra Solutions, FusionOps, Halo, Qlik, Spotfire, Transvoyant, Trifecta, and Trufa. New names abound.

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Supply Chain Cowboy

MARCH 1, 2015

But is your scorecard missing key metrics? It includes a free Excel template that you can modify to match exactly what metrics you want to measure. While some of these metrics might not apply to your business model, there’s definitely a few to add if they measure something important to you and your customers. Communication.

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