For many organisations, the reality of supplier performance management is that time and opportunity to track and react to dozens of complex KPIs simply doesn’t exist…
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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a decade of changes to the retail world in just a year and a half or so…
The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)
Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult…
The Challenge of Freight Container Utilisation and Why it Matters
Shipping air inside expensive freight containers has never been a cost-effective approach to transportation. Today though, in the wake…
Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple
Have you ever seen an image of the modern airliner’s flight deck? If you have, you know that even with the large multi-function displays…
The Perfect Order KPI: Is it the Best Metric Ever?
If you're not already familiar with the perfect order rate as a supply chain KPI, you will be in around 10 minutes, which is the maximum amount of time you're likely to spend reading this article. Here at Benchmarking Success, we happen to believe that perfect order...
If You Want to Improve Your Supply Chain… Think Maturity
Have you ever heard of a supply chain maturity model? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable tool to identify areas for improvement. And that means you might be missing out on significant cost or other performance benefits. I've been using supply chain...
A Concise Guide to Inventory KPIs for Your Business
Every article we publish covering logistics and supply chain KPIs piques our website visitors’ interest and receives a wealth of positive feedback…
Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element
Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process?…
Why 4PL is Becoming the Go-To Model for Large Companies with Complex Supply Chains
Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains…