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The Definitive Guide to Defining & Delivering Effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
If you're looking to gain more knowledge about the meaning of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), the value they can offer to your business, how to plan and collaborate around them and so much more, download our recently published guide to KPIs.
Relevant Manufacturing Analysis & Performance Management Articles
Improving S&OP with Forecasting Analytics & Business Intelligence
Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a consensus-based communications process that provides insight and control over a company’s supply chain decisions. While a manufacturing organization can have an S&OP process in place, though, it can still have issues aligning demand and supply effectively. Advanced forecasting technologies and processes are needed to improve that alignment. This article quickly explores those technologi…Using Analytics to Measure S&OP Effectiveness
Having a strong Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy ensures that your forecasts, raw materials availability and production capacity all match up and that the factory floor can me…
The Value of Linking KPIs with KRIs
In today’s post-COVID era, emerging risks will continue to impact many areas. Government, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals will likely maintain a focus on strengthening their …
Using Analytics To Address Supply Chain Challenges
Supply chain challenges stemming from the pandemic and other global events continue to plague manufacturing and distribution companies. Logistics disruptions, production delays, an over reliance on…
Supply Chain KPIs & Metrics: Our Top 24 for Manufacturers
Supply chain performance KPIs are invaluable measurements that support the growth and success of a company’s supply, fulfillment and delivery efforts. In fact, such KPIs are so…
40 Manufacturing KPIs That Optimize Production Performance
Controlling and optimizing the production process while keeping maintenance costs in check are essential elements of positive growth. To achieve this growth, successful businesses are relying on key performance metrics and automating many aspects of their data management processes to gain the insight…
Why You Can't Be Successful with Your Sales & Operations Analysis Using Excel or Power BI Alone
There’s no doubt. Power BI is powerful. It’s highly visual. And on a self-service level, it packs a real punch in letting business analysts and other advanced users build simple reports and visually appealing dashboards from live data sources. Excel’s a real powerhouse, too, and not surprisingly …
Supply Chain Dashboards - Key Metrics For Manufacturers
As I mentioned in my previous post, Sales Dashboards - 16 Metrics for Manufacturers, a strategy for measuring business performance should also incorporate metrics that focus on the supply chain and othe…
Why a Modern Data Hub is Crucial for Visualization and Other Analytic Tools
There’s a lot of interest in data visualization tools right now, and rightfully so. These products make it very easy for business analysts and others to create eye-catching dashboards that highlight key business performance information. However, the am…
Using Data To Align Your Sales and Supply Chain Teams
Ensuring that your sales and supply chain teams are in sync is one way that you can enhance the customer experience. However, this does pose some challenges because the end goals of these teams don’t always match. This challenge is further compounded by the global nature of many …
Operational Analytics: The Benefits Are BIG For Manufacturers
Recent benchmark surveys of C-level executives at manufacturing businesses indicate that the focus of business analytics is shifting from customer insights to analyzing (and driving improvements in) operational performance.
As a matter of fact, research shows that …
5 Attributes Of An Effective KPI System
In my two most recent blog posts on Key Performance Indicators, I covered The Basics of KPIs and Why Non-Financial Metrics Matter and How t…
Defining KPIs That Are Optimal For A Manufacturing Business
Defining effective Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs) that are optimal for a manufacturing business doesn’t have to be difficult so long as you realize what information will and won't help you determine how your company is meeting its goals and objectives, and that yo…
KPIs: The Basics & Why Non-Financial Metrics Matter
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide an organization with a high-level snap-shot of the health of the business through a set of agreed-upon measures that reflect progress toward the achievement of corporate goals. They give executives and managers the ability to focus on what matters most to the …