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Supply Chain Performance Metrics

Many business decisions are made as supply chain decisions, but many supply chain managers are perhaps not fully aware of how the supply chain metrics they juggle in their day to day operations impact the overall financial performance of they company they work for.

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Balanced Scorecards for Supply Chains

Can balanced scorecards help assess your supply chain vulnerability or your exposure to supply chain disruptions? Maybe. Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in performance of supply chains? How can you keep track of all the items flowing through the supply chain?Using a barcode scanner and inventory control software it is easy to check where any item is at any given moment.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Ménage à trois - the good, the bad and the ugly
No, it's not what you think it is, but I could not think of a more fitting title (to attract more re[...]
Supply chain risk - in your head?
The risk perception an individual supply chain professional has influences the risk management strat[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Enterprise-wide Risk Management
Coming from a crisis management and business continuity background, I really enjoyed reading Enterpr[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
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Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management
In my postings on supply chain risk and supply chain disruption, there is one thing that I have ov[...]
The European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit
In the current financial downturn what should be - or what will be - on the mind of supply chain and[...]