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10 Outstanding Books for SCM Professionals

Supply Chain Opz

This article will show you 10 amazing SCM books that provide the information you can really use. The reason for this was to provide a list of "classic" scm books that people can study by themselves while working full-time. So, customer''s review on Amazon.com (3 stars or more) is also used as a metric.

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Driving Supply Chain Analytics User Adoption with Cross-Departmental Metrics

Logility

The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data governance often don’t exist from department to department or user to user, leaving an overall picture into the health of the business that is foggy because KPIs and metrics do not correlate across the organization. A great example of this comes from a Logility customer.

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Introducing Supply Chain Power Influencers on Twitter

Supply Chain Opz

Related Metrics There are 3 other metrics dedicated to the measurement of social media influence as below, 1) Klout develops Klout Score, the number between 1-100 that represent influence (the ability to drive action). 3) "Average Retweets" or "the average number of retweets each user get per tweet" is used as a ranking metric.

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Themes from the 2018 SCM World Leaders Forum

Kinaxis

I just returned from a very inspiring 2018 SCM World Leaders Forum in London. While I attend several supply chain conferences in any given year, SCM World is a favorite of mine for a couple of reasons. In his opening remarks, Kevin O’Marah, Chief Content Officer at SCM World, introduced the event’s theme, “Power of the Profession”.

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Supply Chain KPIs You’ll Want Every Morning

Logility

Never completed ERP/SCM implementation. Failed SCM implementation causes shipping errors. Every company today runs on data – the key to using your data is choosing the right metrics for visibility into your supply chain. SCOR Level 1 Metrics are good examples of measures that have longer-ranging focus. Tri-Valley Growers.

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Making Supply Chains Fit for Function

Enterra Insights

The basics of supply chain management (SCM). If you want to develop a robust SCM strategy, you have to look at the entire ecosystem. Cecere asserts that collaboration is a key to SCM success. “Planning an SCM strategy involves creating a design of the entire process that best works for you. Delivering.

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Part 2: An S&OP Q&A with SCM World’s Kevin O’Marah

Logility

In Part 1: An S&OP Q&A with SCM World’s Kevin O’Marah we discussed the drivers impacting S&OP, the value of the process and the changing rhythm of S&OP meetings. Total cost of supply chain is another metric that does not move as quickly as many would think. Kevin: Shared metrics make sense.

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