Supply Chain Visibility: Monitoring & Measurement

Supply Chain Visibility is the ability to observe the activities and movement of merchandise from their sources to their final destinations. When it comes to setting up a system of visibility, two features must be present:  monitoring and measurement.  The first is monitoring in which its effectiveness depends on the abilities to sense, detect, andContinue reading “Supply Chain Visibility: Monitoring & Measurement”

We Need Better Monitoring Systems

Most executives like performance measures.  Otherwise known as metrics, key performance indicators (KPI’s), analytics, or scorecards, enterprises embrace performance measures as a means to assess how their businesses are doing. The point of a performance measure is to check how an individual or team is doing against a target that is set by superiors.  (NoContinue reading “We Need Better Monitoring Systems”