Key Performance Indicators

12 Feb Next-Generation Andon Success Story – Cook Medical

Posted at 17:54h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Real-time Alerts Generating Real ROI Today's world is a hyper-competitive manufacturing environment. Challenges related to maintenance, quality, safety and delivery issues remain on the rise. We have seen in our Benchmark Studies This report analyzed over 500,000 potential causes of downtime in just a 3-month period...

24 Apr Next Generation Andon in an IoT world

Posted at 20:41h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Sage Clarity’s Next Generation Andon, a cloud-based software system, goes beyond just using traditional light stacks by sending real-time alerts and notifications to key personnel that improves both employee engagement and operations....

04 Apr Lost in a Sea of Andon Lights?

Posted at 13:20h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Ever look out over a sea of the machines and equipment and confuse them with twinkling holiday lights? Suffice it to say that too many lights on does not mean Santa's coming to town. Today's world is a hyper-competitive manufacturing environment. Challenges related to maintenance,...

25 Jan OEE Benchmarks – Infographic series

Posted at 19:11h in Analytics, EMI, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing by John Oskin

OEE Benchmarks What better way to start the new year than to lead off with a set of manufacturing performance benchmarks. Today's manufacturers place the highest level of importance on the quest for operational efficiencies. Many manufacturers face only capacity constraints - the more they make, the more...

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

12 Jul Introducing The Sage Clarity Static to Real-Time KPIs Framework™

Posted at 13:57h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Static to Real-Time KPIs Developing a strategy to migrate from static to real-time KPIs is a journey. We have developed a 5 step process to help companies with this endeavor. Identify your KPIs Take an inventory of KPIs across the business and catalog them. The suggestion is to...

01 Jul Do You Sink or Swim in Your Supply Chain Data?

Posted at 13:33h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Last year IBM came out with the statistic we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily. In the next few years this number will increase exponentially as companies continue to invest in the "Industrial Internet of Things" (IIoT). Such numbers demonstrate an incredible magnitude of information which can be...

Applying Goal Attainment Principles to Metrics

15 Jun Hitting Your Numbers: Applying “What if?” Analysis to Metrics

Posted at 10:05h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Many business metrics programs use this adage as a rallying cry: “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”. Once an organization determines what to measure, the next step is how to manage. A key component of managing is to apply goals or targets to specific...

06 Jan Real Time Business Intelligence

Posted at 17:12h in Business Intelligence, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Manufacturing, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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...

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

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...

10 Dec Sage Clarity Selected by CIO Review in 20 Most Promising Collaboration Technology Solution Providers

Posted at 07:00h in Analytics, Announcements, Collaboration, Key Performance Indicators, Yammer by John Oskin

We are very proud and flattered to be selected by CIO Magazine. Below is the press release: Sage Clarity Selected by CIO Review in 20 Most Promising Collaboration Technology Solution Providers Annual list showcases the 20 Most Promising Collaboration Solution Providers. FREMONT, CA—December 10th 2015—CIO Review (www.cioreview.com)...

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...

24 Jul 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...

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...

29 May Supply Chain Analytics is Gaining Some Excitement

Posted at 12:20h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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....

20 Apr From 50 KPIs to 10: Moving from Static to Real-time KPIs – Part II, Some Random Thoughts

Posted at 11:01h in Analytics, Insights, Key Performance Indicators, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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...

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...

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...

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....

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?...