Metrics that count
A Gartner survey of supply chain professionals on manufacturing metrics reveals big expectations for the value that improved usage of manufacturing metrics is expected to bring in the next two years. This research offers supply chain and manufacturing leaders insight into the current state of manufacturing metrics.
Over the years, measuring manufacturing performance has been an ongoing challenge for companies. Plants have operated in isolation, disconnected from the supply chain, or have employed metrics that are diametrically opposed to the end goals of the business, such as choosing to focus on efficiency and uptime when flexibility is required.
Isolation and disconnection is no longer acceptable in today’s global economy. The growth in product portfolios and the expansion of supply networks to reach more markets puts a strong focus on the need to have reliable and integrated manufacturing processes and measure them as part of the end-to-end supply chain. The question is: What are the metrics and alignment best practices that are driving manufacturing excellence today?
In 2015, Gartner conducted a survey in conjunction with Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) to address that question and to gain a better understanding of how manufacturing metrics are characterized, developed, and used to link manufacturing and supply chain performance.
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Over the years, measuring manufacturing performance has been an ongoing challenge for companies. Plants have operated in isolation, disconnected from the supply chain, or have employed metrics that are diametrically opposed to the end goals of the business, such as choosing to focus on efficiency and uptime when flexibility is required.
Isolation and disconnection is no longer acceptable in today’s global economy. The growth in product portfolios and the expansion of supply networks to reach more markets puts a strong focus on the need to have reliable and integrated manufacturing processes and measure them as part of the end-to-end supply chain. The question is: What are the metrics and alignment best practices that are driving manufacturing excellence today?
In 2015, Gartner conducted a survey in conjunction with Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) to address that question and to gain a better understanding of how manufacturing metrics are characterized, developed, and used to link manufacturing and supply chain performance.
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