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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
In the 5 (or so) months since we launched this blog, the most popular article discussed real-time KPIs. Since this post, we have received numerous requests focused around a “how do I get started theme”. If I have not gotten back to you yet, I...
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...
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...
The old business adage “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” has been echoed throughout the halls of organizations for years. Many business metrics programs use this adage as a rallying cry. Once an organization determines what to measure, the next step is how to...
Analytics and big data is all the rage now. With the proliferation of supply chain data from so many sources - from manufacturing line data to logistics data to supplier quality data to inventory, supply chain performance can be impacted in a positive manner by...
The answer is both – supply chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) need to span all levels or an organization and thus should be tops-down for executives and management while knowledge workers need to review day-to-day KPIs to execute their activities. One concern with many organizations...
