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Measuring
Success: Tying Metrics Into Your Buying Pipeline
by Laura Patterson
Tying metrics into the buying pipeline allows marketers
to focus their efforts in a measurable, meaningful way. The buying pipeline
provides marketers with a view into the buying process enabling marketing
and sales to be aligned accordingly.
Developing
a Brand Centric Supply Chain
by Thomas Marlow
These strategies will drive costs out of the supply
chain and discover and enable a clearer sense of the relationship between
“brand” and supply chain management.
At
the End of the Day - Supply Chains are About People Not Technology
by Pamela Ruebusch
We understand that technology has been the enabler to
integrating the supply chain, but it is how we work together that dominates
our ongoing drive for optimization.
How
Your Supply Chain Can Build or Destroy Your Brand
by Joseph Benson
and Bret Kinsella
It’s time you begin using your supply chain to support
and build your brand. Brand managers and supply chain groups who share the
same real-time performance data can build loyal customers and increase profitability.
Living
and Thriving With Channel Master Customers
by Olin Thompson
Channel master business is good. Everyone likes increased
volume. But the impact of this business can be bad for the bottom line. A
manufacturer must proactively build the ability to satisfy the channel master's
demands and continually search for cost reduction to maintain margins.
Developing
World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation
by
Richard G. Ligus
Taking dramatic steps to become agile is necessary to
be a manufacturing contender. The faster parts, information, and decisions
flow through an organization, the faster it can respond to customer needs.
Effective
Supply Chain Management
by
R. Michael Donovan
The complexities of getting material ordered, manufactured and delivered overload
most supply chain management (SCM) systems. The fact is, most systems are
just not up to handling all the variables up and down the supply chain.
Inventory
Efficiency In The Supply Chain
by
R. Michael Donovan
Lowering inventories is one of the quickest ways to decrease working
capital needs. Performance measurements, such as the old standby ROA (return
on assets) and the newer EVA (economic value added), as well as other measures
that gauge how efficiently capital is used, have become more common organizational
drivers.
Supply
Chain Management: Cracking The "Bullwhip Effect"
by
R. Michael Donovan
This article written by consultant R. Michael Donovan describes
the causes and effects brought about by unplanned demand oscillations up and
down the Supply Chain that has become known as the "Bullwhip Effect". In addition,
Donovan offers a number of recommendations to eliminate or minimize the "Bullwhip
Effect".
Demand-based
Flow Manufacturing for High Velocity Order-to-Delivery Performance
by
R. Michael Donovan
Consultant R. Michael Donovan
writes that manufacturers need to become more nimble and much faster in their
order-to-delivery process. Mike discusses the implications of push vs. pull,
IT tools as enablers and potential benefits from Demand-based Flow Manufacturing.
e-Supply
Chain Management: Managing The Extended Enterprise
by
R. Michael Donovan
Collaborative
e-Supply Chain Management will necessitate critical changes in the philosophy,
processes and communication systems of how trading partners will and must
work together. Donovan provides an assessment checklist and also makes some
observations about software and how to get started.
Performance
Measurement: Connecting Strategy, Operations and Actions
by
R. Michael Donovan
Performance
measurement can be an "enabling force" for improving overall business
performance. Here is a checklist of the critical traits for performance measurement
for successful supply chain management.
Keeping
Score: Developing
an Effective Strategy for Supply Chain Measurement
by
Julia Kuzeljevich
Few business areas need to be measured more extensively, more frequently,
and more effectively than logistics. When evaluating criteria for individual
metrics, consider this checklist.
Why
the Controversy Over the ROI from ERP?
by
R. Michael Donovan
ERP must be driven by the right strategic process improvement
objectives, and the new processes must be implemented right, and quickly to
meet the ROI expectations and become positively measureable.
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