- 21. The Growing Significance of Sustainability
- (News)
- In the past few years, supply chain sustainability has changed from being a 'check box' item on a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scorecard to an approach with strategic significance. A vast majority ...
- 22. IoT and Big Data
- (News)
- Two massive technology and business trends, Big Data and IoT, are perfectly positioned to score big advances together over the coming years. Although they're both still years away from fully realizing their ...
- 23. Mitigate Risk with Metrics
- (News)
- Scorecards have been around supply chains for quite awhile. Do people on the manufacturing floor have access to the metrics they really need, though?In an EBN article, Hailey Lynne Mckeefrey explores the ...
- 24. New Supply Chain Metrics
- (News)
- Is your supply chain satisfying your customers? How do you know? Steve Banker questions traditional supply chain metrics in a recent article on the Forbes site.Measuring the 'Net Promoter Score' (NPS) holds ...
- 25. Make Your Data Actionable
- (News)
- Ray Major, on the Smart Data Collective site, is looking at ways to leverage supply chain data to benefit the organization. If you're implementing a business intelligence platform, he wants to make sure ...
- 26. A Little History Lesson
- (News)
- Art van Bodegraven, in an article on the Spend Matters site, takes a spin through the history of supply chain management in an attempt to explain why practioners feel the way they do about it.It's nicely ...
- 27. Building a Resilient Supply Chain
- (News)
- We all agree that sustainability in the supply chain is an important objective. But how do you get there? Resilience helps.In an article on the EBN site, Nicke Testa discusses how supply chain management ...
- 28. Looking at the Scorecard
- (News)
- If you're part of the supply chain, you are likely to be very familiar with the concept of the scorecard. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, certainly is.She's looking at how effective they are, their ...
- 29. The Medical Device Supply Chain
- (News)
- The medical device supply chain is a tough one. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, has taken a deep dive into what drives it and how it can improve.She has recommendations specific for the medical device ...
- 30. Is Big Data Better Data?
- (Blogs)
- ... I’d recommend looking at to get a feel for the use of data in your supply chain would be your scorecarding process. As you know, the scorecard is a common tool used in supply chains of all sizes in an ...
- 31. Big Data and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- Dan Gilmore, on the Supply Chain Digest site, has put a lot of thought into what's happening with Big Data in the supply chain. In his opinion, there's something there but we're not there yet. Make sense?The ...
- 32. Holiday Delivery Issue Analysis
- (News)
- If you're one of the many on-line retail customers still steamed about a late delivery of holiday presents, you want to blame somebody. But who deserves your scorn? The store? UPS? FedEx?It's not an easy ...
- 33. Tracking Your Products Can Bring You Closer to Your Customers
- (Management)
- For most suppliers the distance between their product and their consumers is a long and twisted path with little or no direct feedback. In a perfect world, this arrangement would work fine because retailers ...
- 34. Measuring 3PL Services
- (News)
- Big companies are big consumers of 3PL services. But there are differences between the logistics providers that need to be measured.In an Industry Week article, Dave Blanchard discusses the need to apply ...
- 35. Procurement Architecture Considerations
- (News)
- The guys at Spend Matters always have unique perspective on process and technology involved in P2P.Pierre Mitchell takes a look at how to start down the path of identifying the best information architecture ...
- 36. How Sustainable are My Suppliers?
- (Retail)
- ... like WalMart and Proctor & Gamble are driving development of various scorecard-like tools for their supplier partners. The mega-retailers have great visibility on the sustainability issue. WalMart ...
- 37. WalMart's Sustainability Inde
- (News)
- In a GreenBiz.com article, Katie DeWitt talks about a recent trip she took to WalMart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas to review their plans for rolling out the sustainability scorecard.As the planet' ...
- 38. Top Sustainability Stories of 2012
- (News)
- From scorecarding, to natural disasters, to reporting, supply chain sustainability was a hot topic over the past year. The Environmental Leader site provides a list of their top articles of 2012 on the ...
- 39. Labeling Still a Barrier in Some Areas
- (Supply)
- ... the invoicing/payment process. The value to the retailer is compliancy, enablement, scorecarding and inventory reduction, according to SPS Commerce. The suppliers will benefit, the consortium believes, ...
- 40. Benefits or Nuisance: Vendor Compliance
- (Management)
- ... - using the Vendor Scorecard methodology verse assess penalties whether you have reasonable requirements/expectations timely notification of issues to your partners Using a scorecard tool that can ...
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