Balanced Scorecards and Spreadsheets: The Right Starting Point? A recent insight by Bain and Company discusses Balanced Scorecards as one kind of management tool. While balanced scorecards have been in use by organizations for years, one trend we see is organizations and executives using balanced scorecards...
A recent FORBES article discusses, and actual has 10 Steps To Conquer Information Overload. FORBES has some great steps. However, we prefer not to “conquer” information overload, but how to use so much information to your advantage. One thing we all need to realize...
It is always exciting to see an area we are very passionate about gain some steam. Our friends at Transparency Market Research just published a new market study entitled Supply Chain Analytics Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast....
Bushmills was using traditional paper-based methods to monitor manufacturing performance. The need to eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual intervention prompted Bushmills to search for an enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) solution....
Still our most popular post, we discussed moving from static to real-time Key Performance Indicators and a methodology we use to help achieve real-time KPIs. Executing a static to real-time KPI transformation does not need to be a daunting task, when executed in a methodological...
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...
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. ...
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....
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...
FREMONT, CA—November 3, 2014—CIO Review has chosen Sage Clarity for its 20 Most Promising Manufacturing Technology Solution Providers. The selection is based on Sage Clarity’s creative mobile analytics technology solutions that advance the way the manufacturing supply chain world works. Sage Clarity ...
Download the Slide Deck: Manufacturing KPIs - 50 to 10 KPIs. Did you know, fewer than 20% of companies say that “everyone” in their business gets the numbers they need to make day-to-day decisions (according to The Advanced Performance Institute). To steer the business properly, leaders...
Fewer than 20% of companies say that “everyone” in their business gets the numbers they need to make day-to-day decisions (according to The Advanced Performance Institute). To steer the business properly, leaders need a long list of KPIs – usually on a monthly basis. That list...
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...
Goal attainment principles and metrics go hand in hand with supply chain management programs. How can they relate to each-other?...
To take supply chain performance to next level, organizations need to beyond business intelligence and use purpose built analytics....
Supply Chain KPIs should be in use by many members and levels of an organization - from the executive level to knowledge workers....
Collaboration in a supply chain is more than conversation. Collaboration is rich information - dashboards, metrics, etc shared by a team....
