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Developing Business Metrics Checklist

 
Checklist to develop solid business metrics to monitor performance.
 
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    • Are your metrics focused on indicators that provide direct value to end customers or alternatively on internal processes that provide indirect value to end customers?
    • Are your metrics relevant to your organization's mission, vision, and strategic direction?
    • Do your metrics provide useable information that can support management decisions and actions without requiring further analysis?
    • Do your metrics measure performance across time to show trends?
    • Are your metrics developed collaboratively by those who need to collect, process, and use the data?
     
    K. H. Rose. “A Performance Measurement Model”, Quality Progress, (February 1995), p. 63-66.
     

    Successful Supply Chain Cross-Docking Checklist

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    Successful Supply Chain Cross-Docking Checklist

     
    Checklist to ensure you have the basic elements to successfully practice cross-docking, or moving material from manufacturing to customer with little or no handling in between.
     
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    • Do you have support from upstream suppliers that provide stable and reliable service?
    • Does your organization have a meaningful commitment to a culture of continuous improvement supported by methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean?
    • Does your organization have committed people, effective training, and standardized procedures?
    • Does your facility layout support optimal efficiency and is work balanced throughout the day?
    • Is your organization supported by information technology systems with tracking capability?
    • Do the products you are cross-docking have consistent, high-volume sales?
     
    J. Paul Dittman. “Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy” (McGraw-Hill, 2013), Chapter 5 p. 13-14.

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    5 Pillar Supply Chain Analysis Checklist

     
    Checklist to ensure your supply chain has the five elements that drive value.
     
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    • TALENT - Have you hired talented supply chain managers and created an environment in which they can develop and grow?
    • TECHNOLOGY - Have you completed a technology assessment of your organization and identified any gaps?
    • INTERNAL COLLABORATION - Are the supply chain function and other areas of your business (e.g. marketing, human resources) focused on meeting the needs of your customer in the most effective way possible?
    • EXTERNAL COLLABORATION - Do you collaborate effectively with your external vendors/upstream suppliers?
    • EFFECTIVELY GETTING THINGS DONE - Is your supply chain supported by effective project management and change management people and processes?
     
    Reuben Sloan et al. “The New Supply Chain Agenda” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010).

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    Supplier Forward Supply Chain Strategy Checklist

     
    Checklist to be used to develop a supply chain strategy by starting with the needs of your customers and working backwards.
     
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  • Have you assessed the supply chain needs of your customers?
  • Have you mapped your value stream flow to meet those needs?
  • Have you designed your internal operations to meet the needs of your customers?
  • Have you managed your upstream flow to support your internal operations?
  • Have you managed your suppliers to support the needs of your customers?
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    J. Paul Dittman. “Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy” (McGraw-Hill, 2013), pp. 55.
     
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    Supplier Forward Supply Chain Strategy Checklist

     
    Checklist to be used to develop a supply chain strategy by starting with your suppliers and working forward.
     
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  • Have you assessed the capabilities of each of your upstream suppliers?
  • Have you analysed the value stream flow into your operations from your suppliers?
  • Have you analysed and benchmarked your internal operations?
  • Have you analysed the value stream flow from your internal operations to your customers?
  • Have you measured how well you are meeting the needs of your customers?
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    J. Paul Dittman. “Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy” (McGraw-Hill, 2013), pp. 54.
     

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