2001 Manufacturing Metrics 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 3, 2013
Over the Memorial Day weekend, I stumbled on an old article that I wrote in 2001. It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. At the time, I was a junior Gartner analyst. was controversial.
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Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 11, 2012
” CFO of a major manufacturer. I have been an industry analyst since 2001. Ownership of Inventory as a Metric. In High-tech, there is greater ownership of the “inventory metric” across the organization. A decade ago, the supply chain had two buffers: inventory and manufacturing. I really do.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 14, 2013
Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 5, 2016
During the conversation, he thanked me as an ex-Gartner analyst for putting Ariba on problem-watch in May 2001. For many years (1992-2001), I worked at Manugistics, a supply chain planning technology provider. During the period of 1996-2001, the company struggled. Cisco had a kick in the gut in 2001.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 8, 2014
I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. It appears SO barren from my window in seat 4D. It has been a good week. In fact, it will probably be a long line.
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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