Healthcare Value Chain
The majority of my recent posts over the past few weeks have focused mainly on healthcare related industries, including both hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. I promise this will be the last such...
View ArticleGrocery Retail: Safeway & Supervalu
I’ve been writing about the grocery retail industry all day and I’m afraid I’ve had several more snacks than usual due to the fact that I’m always thinking about all kinds of goodies available at the...
View ArticleStarting From Scratch
Over a year ago, I started blogging here as I began to explore the intersection of finance and supply chain, connecting supply chain performance with corporate financial performance. The goal has...
View ArticleSupply Chain Index: Journey vs. Destination
In a previous post (Starting from Scratch), I outlined significant differences between our Supply Chain Index and existing systems for measuring and ranking supply chains. In this post, I’d like to...
View ArticleWhat Can I Do With the Index?
Last week, we introduced the Supply Chain Index in the first webinar of our summer series. You can catch the replay here and peruse the slides in the Community here. I started blogging here last May...
View ArticleA Bird’s-Eye View
The past weeks at Supply Chain Insights have been busy as work heats up on the Index, so I apologize for my absence. At this point, we’ve finished or are close to completing one third of the industries...
View ArticleIndex Q&A
Over the course of the last couple of months, we have put on three separate Supply Chain Index webinars (archives are available here). Attendance and interest have been high and several questions have...
View ArticleWhy Do We Outsource?
I spent some time this weekend typing up my notes from the CSCMP event in Denver. An off-hand comment from a panel discussion regarding TMS systems that resonated with me in Denver again struck a chord...
View ArticleMetrics That Tell A Story
A single company can be sliced and diced in a multitude of ways. Different metrics are meaningful to different groups of people – both internally and externally of the company. That seems simple, but...
View ArticleWhat About Customer Service Metrics?
Our exploration of supply chain excellence divides financial metrics into four categories. Growth, profitability, cycle and complexity are the four components of the Supply Chain Effective Frontier. We...
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