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15 Feb It’s Not Easy Being GREEN! Bottom Line Improves with Supply Chain Analytics

Posted at 14:54h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, EMI, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Mobile, Supply Chain by Jon Simpson

The hype is over – better use of analytics in a company’s supply chain yield immediate results, period. “Companies that embed analytics in their day-to-day supply chain operations generate more significant and far-reaching benefits than those that use big data analytics on an ad-hoc basis…”...

21 Jan SQUIRREL! Can You Manage Your Supply Chain Without Distraction?

Posted at 13:49h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Mobile, Supply Chain, Uncategorized by Jon Simpson

Given statistics of use, why would you not want your team to manage their supply chain from a smartphone? First consider a few key facts: According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, "a majority of smartphone owners use their phone to follow along with breaking...

15 Dec Three Questions to Ask your Supply Chain

Posted at 07:15h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain, Visibility by John Oskin

As we approach holiday shutdowns, it may be a good time to ask some general questions about your supply chain. While we can see much more than 3 questions, here are the three that we have recently seen as top-of-mind by executives: Are we planning or...

24 Nov Supply Chain Visibility: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Posted at 00:08h in Analytics, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Visibility by John Oskin

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...

09 Nov How to Transition into Real Time KPIs

Posted at 16:37h in Insights by John Oskin

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...

05 Nov The Folly of Deep Data Diving

Posted at 16:09h in Analytics, Insights by John Oskin

Click here to download our article from The November issue of Industrial Engineer 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....

08 Sep Manufacturing Today: Key Performance Indicators

Posted at 23:50h in Insights by Rob Brown

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...

24 Jul A “How-to” for “What-if” Planning for Executives

Posted at 13:22h in Analytics, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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...

16 Jul Using Yammer to Deliver Enterprise Collaboration Around Metrics

Posted at 06:57h in Analytics, Collaboration, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Yammer by Jon Simpson

When we built our platform, enterprise collaboration was an interesting opportunity to expand on our value proposition. One View includes an internal collaboration engine that has been very successful. Several One View Clients have standardized on Yammer, the enterprise collaborative platform from Microsoft and as such, we...

25 Jun How Executives Can Manage Information Overload

Posted at 20:49h in Analytics, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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 is...

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