Given statistics of use, why would you not want your team to manage your supply chain from a smartphone? The ability to stay informed of real-time events and quickly communicate are becoming more an expectation of professionals - especially in supply chain management. The average attention...
While Business Intelligence has been a hot topic among organizations over the past decade, more recently, real-time Business Intelligence has taken a higher priority. We will not review “why”, but lets review “how”. Certainly a robust infrastructure needs to be a key priority...
Most of the organizations we serve have enough information; it is what is done with the information and how this information supports your business. The best way in which information can support a business is via analytics. We have discussed supply chain analytics here, including...
We have been involved in several large-scale supply chain visibility projects recently. When we started on these projects, we found an Aberdeen Group Benchmark report from 2006 (!) and felt nostalgic. The industry has been talking about supply chain visibility for 20+ years and we...
Data-driven decision-making has become over- whelming for many industries. Pressures and responses to such concerns as globalization, performance margins, integrating supply chains and balancing costs with customer service have produced voluminous amounts of data at previously unthinkable levels. Read about a five step process...
This article is provided with permission of the Institute of Industrial Engineers from the November 2015 issue of Industrial Engineer, Copyright©2015 Institute of Industrial Engineers. All rights reserved....
Information overload is more prevalent than ever in today’s manufacturing industry. According to Adrian Ott in her book The 24-Hour Customer, people see more than 34 billion pieces of information (the equivalent of two books) every day. With the wide adoption of mobile devices...
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....
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....
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...
