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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The use of orbit charts allowed me to see the patterns of performance at the intersection of metrics over time. This data source synchronizes corporate reporting across global markets while tracking restatements, name changes, and currency shifts.) By charting the performance against peer groups, I could see the story.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Financial ratios allow us to analyze performance across the peer group (large against small companies) and across currencies. Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.

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Avoid “Lost in Translation”. Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

ToolsGroup

To achieve Stage 5, S&OP must be “a fully integrated business planning forum… (where) metrics are value-based and aligned across the network and enterprise to support the required trade-offs.”. Gartner’s research is echoed by Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights.

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Cultivate a Stickier Customer Base Using WMS Add-On Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

3PLs can quickly assess client-level profitability via accurate cost-to-serve metrics and analytics on demand while creating a verifiable audit trail of events and charges that reduce potential credit settlements and contribute to customer satisfaction.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. Time horizon.

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What Every CFO Should Know About Aligning Finance with the Supply Chain

Logility

Finance teams speak about business issues in terms of currency and margins, while supply chain operations make decisions based on volumetric conversations around units, capacity, and lead time. Integrating all corners of business planning Finance and supply chain organizations can seem worlds apart, even though they are on the same continent.

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32 KPIs That Drive Inventory Optimization

Silvon Software

Key performance indicators (KPIs) in inventory management are metrics that help you monitor and make decisions about your stock. There must be a clearly defined data source with a standardized process for collecting and measuring that data. These types of metrics are Sales KPIs, Receiving KPIs and Operational KPIs. Sales KPIs.