July-August 2012
Managers sometimes don’t understand the importance of the information provided by supply chain metrics—or even the need for metrics in the first place. But according to researchers from Penn State, having timely and accurate metrics in place leads directly to superior business performance. They make a strong case for why supply chain metrics really do matter.
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Why Metrics Matter
The right supply chain metrics can help you answer three key questions: Where do we want to go? How do we get there? And how do we know when we’ve arrived? The ability to…
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What Five Great Economists Can Tell Us about Outsourcing
Want to improve your outsourcing efforts? This article unpacks the lessons of five “Big Thinkers” in the world of economics and shares how their insights can help you…
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Supply Analytics: An Overlooked Opportunity
Much of the analytics effort to date has focused on the demand side of the supply chain equation. Yet analytics can be applied just as effectively to the supply side to assure…
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Supply Chain Insights into India
India is a highly attractive market for multinational companies. But to successfully source or sell products there, they need to realize that conditions may differ greatly from…
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Do More Without More
Things will get better. But before the economic turnaround is finally completed, supply chain professionals will continue to be tasked with doing more with limited—and in some…
