- 21. Adjust Your Attitude
- (News)
- Sometimes, metrics can get in the way of progress in your supply chain, especially if they're not well understood or used improperly. If you change your way of thinking about a problem, what looked like ...
- 22. Supply Chains to Admire
- (News)
- Identifying which supply chains deserve our admiration is a tough task. The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, is up to it, though, and in a recent article interviews the leader of one who made the list.Joan ...
- 23. 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) ...
- 24. Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chains 201
- (News)
- Every year the researchers at Gartner publish their Top 25 supply chains list, and it seems Apple is always at or near the top, technology companies are highly rated, and everyone complains about the metrics. ...
- 25. DC Metrics
- (News)
- Which metrics are most important to DC pros? In a DC Velocity article, Joseph Tillman, Karl B. Manrodt and Donnie Williams review a recent survey to see which ones matter most and who's doing the best ...
- 26. Is Big Data Better Data?
- (Blogs)
- ... scorecards with 5 measurements and others that are long and (sometimes overly) complicated. What I don’t recall seeing, though, is a scorecard that all parties agree is a totally accurate representation ...
- 27. Should You Ditch Your CI Programs?
- (News)
- We're always on the lookout for alternative opinions here at EC-BP.com. Although the title of the article "Why Continuous Improvement May Need to be Discontinued' is more provocative than its content warrants, ...
- 28. LEED and Sustainable Purchasing
- (News)
- Sustainable purchasing is a laudable goal. However, there must be guidelines and measurements to let us know who's succeeding at it and who isn't.Jonathan Bardelline on the GreenBiz.com site describes how ...
- 29. Sustainable Packaging
- (News)
- Supply chain sustainability covers a lot of ground. Not surprisingly, packaging is a big area of emphasis.In an article on the Packaging World site, Dr. Karli Verghese talks about how companies approach ...
- 30. Supply Chain Measurements
- (News)
- In a guest commentary in Supply Chain Digest, Kevin Harris tells a compelling story about the importance of measurements throughout the supply chain.You really can't argue with the logic or results. Check ...
- 31. Supply Chain Benchmarking
- (News)
- Benchmarking is always a good idea, since it not only can tell you where you stand against measurements but can also highlight areas for improvement.A blog by the OPS Rules group on the B2C site explains ...
- 32. Let's Shar
- (News)
- Industry Week has a nice article about the effectiveness of sharing real-time demand and inventory information. It turns out, the results are mixed. Read Becky Partida's findings on the research here. ...
- 33. Turning the Retailer/Vendor Meeting Into a Partnership/Strategic Discussion
- (Supply)
- ... and Communicate the measurements to the benefits of your employer, your favored partners, and your own career. Any individual seminar, training session, conference, or consultation will strain to ...
- 34. Turning the Retailer/Vendor Meeting Into a Partnership/Strategic Discussion
- (Retail)
- ... and Communicate the measurements to the benefits of your employer, your favored partners, and your own career. Any individual seminar, training session, conference, or consultation will strain to ...
- 35. Do You Have the Right Score?
- (Supply)
- ... scorecard five years ago. We have the correct compliance measurements in place; however, the data we are capturing for compliance is still questionable. We discovered we measure on the accuracy of ASNs ...
- 36. Do You Have the Right Score?
- (Retail)
- ... scorecard five years ago. We have the correct compliance measurements in place; however, the data we are capturing for compliance is still questionable. We discovered we measure on the accuracy of ASNs ...
- 37. Supplier Relationship Management
- (News)
- Creating an effective supplier relationship management process is one of the keys to supply chain success. Sohelia Lunney gives us her thoughts on some of the components of an SRM effort that could ...
- 38. Doing it Wrong - Get it Right!
- (Management)
- You only hear from your 'customers' when something bad happens, your sales department complains about how long it takes to 'hook up' their customers on marketplace connections, and you're constantly given ...
- 39. How Do You Know?
- (EDI)
- ... are some of the drivers that nudged us down the path of developing operational measurements. Increased responsibility. During our major ERP implementation in 2006, we stepped into a much more prominent ...
- 40. What are Your Measurements?
- (Management)
- ... needed to understand and communicate the cost and value of our work, and we had continuous improvement projects to identify and support. Our measurements evolved from the inside-out. We initially looked ...
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