Supply Chain

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,...

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...

09 Jun Do Your Supply Chain Analytics Have Purpose?

Posted at 12:15h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Analytics and big data continue to be the rave to improve supply chain performance. With supply chain data available from so many new disparate sources – from supplier quality to manufacturing to global sustainability – performance can be dramatically improved in corporations if there is...

17 May CONTEXT is King with Collaboration Analytics

Posted at 11:19h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Insights, Mobile, Supply Chain by John Oskin

When Bill Gates said that “content is king”, these words embraced the feeling over 20 years ago when the internet took shape. Now we can argue that “CONTEXT is king” with collaboration analytics as has been widely published. Photo sharing and messaging is all the...

29 Mar Less is More: Can You Really Focus Daily on 50 KPIs?

Posted at 11:09h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Supply Chain by John Oskin

Several years ago a study by The Advanced Performance Institute entitled 20 Years of Measuring and Managing Business Performance revealed the fact that less than 20% of companies state everyone obtains regular insights (usually using Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs) which improve day-to-day decision making...

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 John Oskin

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...

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...

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...

18 Dec Sage Clarity Recognized as Epicor Platinum Partner

Posted at 14:26h in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insights, Manufacturing, Supply Chain by John Oskin

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. ...

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....