Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Metrics System 
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
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. In short, the individual metric will improve, but the performance on other metrics may suffer.
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Kinaxis
DECEMBER 3, 2014
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. Yet, these are similar instructions as what is passed down to the supply chain from executives focused on a specific supply chain metric. Sound ridiculous?
ToolsGroup
MARCH 25, 2025
Modern ML-powered demand planning systems simplify this by analyzing multiple factors simultaneously – product trends, competitive pricing, market conditions, and social media activity – to uncover patterns in promotional events and quantify their precise effect on sales.
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. False Beliefs.
Kinaxis
DECEMBER 12, 2017
When making discretionary purchases, I could look at my projection to make sure that if I made that purchase, I would have enough money in the bank, not only now, but at the end of the month when my mortgage and car loan came out. Then could I buy it? Planning systems, however, are not designed to allow you to ask ‘what if?’
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
As the only woman on the team, I always laughed that I had no place to put it, but I did not buck the system. Engineers could sign up for hour-long blocks to use the new systems. The tight integration of APS to ERP introduces nervousness in complex systems.) Lack of aligned metrics. Lack of executive buy-in.
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