Analytics

26 Mar Driving Cultural Change in Supply Chain Organizations Using Mobile Devices

Posted at 06:37h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Transforming a culture can be a daunting task and certainly requires more than can written in 1 blog post. However, there are a few items we notice in working in large-scale transformations over the past 3 years. Communication. Not a new aspect of cultural change, but...

23 Feb Analytics to Improve Business Performance – What’s Real?

Posted at 17:23h in Analytics, Insights by John Oskin

A recent report by LNS Research entitled The New Frontier in Manufacturing Operations and Business Performance provides strong factual evidence of how organizations can truly impact business performance by leveraging analytics. In the past year, the industry has been flooded with buzzwords such as mobility,...

08 Jan Siloed Analytics vs. Broad Business Analytics

Posted at 09:27h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights by John Oskin

How can organizations have their cake and eat it too? The phrases are very common: Break down the silos Data silos create barriers which impedes decision making Collaborate across all part of a business Here is a fact: not everyone in a company can operate at the...

Observations from the Smart Manufacturing Workshop

22 Dec Observations from the NIST Smart Manufacturing Workshop

Posted at 18:01h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing by John Oskin

I had the opportunity to attend and present at The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) “Roadmapping Workshop on Measurement Science for Prognostics and Health Management of Smart Manufacturing Systems”. The focus of the conference in centered on processes and systems to help businesses...

18 Dec Sage Clarity Recognized as Epicor Platinum Partner

Posted at 14:26h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Manufacturing, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Extraordinary Performance Delivering Industry-Specific Epicor Solutions, Support and Services to Customers Worldwide CHICAGO, Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sage Clarity LLC, a leader in best-of-breed supply chain and manufacturing solutions, announced it has earned Platinum Partner Status for the Americas in the Epicor® Inspired Partner Network. ...

From 50 KPI's to 10 Static to Real Time KPI Maturity

16 Nov Introducing The Sage Clarity Real Time KPI Maturity Framework™

Posted at 23:01h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Moving from static to real time KPIs with Maturity Framework™ can have a material impact on an organization. To see the top 5 impact areas below, read on....

03 Nov Sage Clarity Selected by CIO Review for its 20 Most Promising Manufacturing Technology Solution Providers 2014

Posted at 09:51h in Analytics, Announcements, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing by John Oskin

It is nice to be noticed! We would like to thank CIO Review for including us in the list. We will not write a lengthy post, but we can provide some insight as to why we were chosen: Sage Clarity Provides Real Time Analytics Sage Clarity Provides a...

11 Sep Swimming in the Data vs. Sinking in the Data

Posted at 14:27h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

IBM states that every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Just to put that amount of data into perspective, one quintillion is 10 to the 18th power. Doing some simple math, and assuming 5,000 companies generate that data evenly, we can guestimate that...

04 Sep Applying Goal Attainment Principles to Metrics

Posted at 20:32h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Goal attainment principles and metrics go hand in hand with supply chain management programs. How can they relate to each-other?...

29 Aug Purpose Built Analytics

Posted at 07:24h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Supply Chain by John Oskin

To take supply chain performance to next level, organizations need to beyond business intelligence and use purpose built analytics....

22 Aug Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators: Tops Down or Bottoms Up?

Posted at 06:36h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Supply Chain KPIs should be in use by many members and levels of an organization - from the executive level to knowledge workers....

14 Aug Collaboration with Context

Posted at 06:30h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Insights, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Collaboration in a supply chain is more than conversation. Collaboration is rich information - dashboards, metrics, etc shared by a team....

07 Aug Connecting the Dots with Indirect KPIs

Posted at 07:45h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Expanding on the value of business intelligence via direct KPIs is the concept of indirect KPIs - KPIs which which depend on other KPIs....

10 Jul 3 Things to Consider for your Supply Chain Analytics Strategy

Posted at 09:00h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, EMI, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Developing a Supply Chain Strategy to help manage your supply chain analytics can be difficult and frustrating. Here are three tips....

07 Jul Goldfish, Supply Chain Management and Smartphones … Huh?

Posted at 08:30h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Mobile, Supply Chain, Uncategorized by John Oskin

When looking at strategies for supply chain management and smartphones, we must realize the short attention span of personnel....