Eliminating Excel in Purchasing How To Metrics 
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 21, 2024
In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. What Drives Value?
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies. Functional Metrics.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. In my first classes, I taught the group how to speak the language of demand—forecastability, Forecast Value Added (FVA), backcasting, demand and market latency, and market drivers. Lack of aligned metrics. Let me explain.
Logility
AUGUST 7, 2017
Often, it becomes necessary to reevaluate how supply chain performance is measured to ensure healthy operations. Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” However, companies often have too many independent metrics that can cause conflicts amongst competing supply chain functions.
Kinaxis
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Over the next several weeks, I’ll outline these issues and discuss some ideas around how to avoid these practices. Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Sound ridiculous? There can be multiple reasons.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics. The issue is that traditional functional metrics drive underperformance—the greater the variability, the larger the gap.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 12, 2024
The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda. The days of the functional manager focused on OEE (Operational Equipment Efficiency) and POV (Purchase Price Variance) need to end. So, my reply to Peter S. So, my reply to Peter S.
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