Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2019

… Real-time integration, applying Six Sigma to know process bottlenecks, and re-engineering systems to be more customer-focused improve this metrics’ performance. Cycle Time is a predictor of the future of manufacturing as this metric captures improvement made across systems and processes immediately.”

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. The next step may be Six Sigma quality ( In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 4, 2023

This reduces the chances of lost sales and the associated costs of rush orders or expedited shipping. But times are changing, the use of reduce inventory offers more quality and useful performance metrics. Over time, having huge inventories were considered necessary.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

They can be trucking companies, airlines, shipping lines, or rail operators, depending on the mode of transportation chosen for the specific shipment. SLAs should cover key metrics such as on-time delivery, order accuracy, inventory accuracy, and customer service responsiveness.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

For instance, a company can define and execute an order processing pipeline with Orchestration, which automates an order’s creation, tracking, and shipping. This eliminates manual tasks like creating shipping labels, making order processing more efficient and cost-effective. Select the right 3PL provider.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Moreover, products can be shipped to stores in-time then lost sales is minimal. The secret behind its supply chain success is the use of Six Sigma approach. They studied how General Electric (GE), DuPont and Honeywell implemented six sigma.

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Unleashed

JULY 23, 2023

KPIs in manufacturing are quantifiable production metrics used by manufacturers to measure production performance over time. Order cycle time KPIs calculate the average time between when you receive an order and when it is shipped. As a metric, it’s the time you budget to manufacture each part or component.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During We built these into continuous improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma, while also setting goals to drive breakthrough cost savings to supplement continuous improvement savings. We named it the Supply Chain Index. Our aim was to maintain a 3 to 3.5

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Unleashed

MARCH 30, 2022

What metrics can you use, and what system will supply the data reliably? To do so, we determine our standard deviation, and then use Six Sigma methodology to turn those into upper and lower limits. What is Six Sigma? In mathematical terms, Six Sigma quality means a process will produce only 3.4

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

Supplier Incentive Programs: Introducing incentive programs that reward suppliers for meeting certain performance metrics, such as on-time delivery or cost reduction, can motivate suppliers to actively collaborate and improve their supply chain capabilities.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Recommend ways to enhance performance metrics such as inventory, delivery, and overdue orders. These are some of them: It gives you an in-depth overview of the entire organisation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

We installed new racking with over 32k locations, installed a new WMS using the latest technology created all new processes with pick faces and over flow locations, used six sigma tools to drive fool-proof processes and trained up the local team on RF guns and the new processes. Have balanced, relevant and valid metrics.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. Pull systems permit visual control of material flow in the supply chain.You can also use Ship-to-Use (STU) systems. Risk Management.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This is one of the benefits of a functional Sales and Operations Planning or Integrated Business Planning process that is supported by shared and consistent metrics across business functions. The capability of warehousing to know what is exactly where and pick, pack and ship it in a timely and efficient way.

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The Lean Supply Chain

JANUARY 21, 2016

If it takes a week or more for inbound shipments to move from the receiving dock to warehouse shelves (which it many times does…) and then out to the shipping door, you’re robbing other departments (R&D, Marketing, even IT) of capital that could make them more effective. You must Continuously Improve Warehouse Operations daily.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Dana stated that leading supply chain organizations such as Amazon are looking for disruptive skills such as Lean/six-sigma, SQL, project management, R, Perl, and Python in addition to the core supply chain skills, as compared to lagging organizations primarily looking for ERP and excel skills. The site was launched in eight weeks.

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The Lean Supply Chain

MARCH 22, 2015

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to insure success across the supply chain.These metrics should be reviewed frequently to insure supply chain success. The Lean Supply Chain is a system of interconnected and interdependent partners that operate in unison to accomplish supply chain objectives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. To meet the criteria for The Supply Chains to Admire for 2016, companies needed to score better than their peer group average for performance metrics, while driving a higher level of improvement than 2/3 of their industry peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

For mature supply chain organizations, it is a natural extension of six sigma. Q: What is the best metric to begin analyzing when starting to evaluate Supply Chain agility? It requires design. It is a goal for 87% of companies, but only 27% of organizations feel that they have met their internal goals to achieve agility.

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