Supply Chain Analytics A Complete Guide

Are there dominant suppliers, or is the market evenly distributed (market concentration)? Do you and your customers have complete visibility of order and product inventory status? Does your supply chain have differentiating capabilities that lead to market leadership? How easy is it to get trusted and harmonized product information across the enterprise? How many companies are involved in each of the major elements of the subject supply chain? What are the best alternatives for effective implementation of sustainable supply chains? What areas are giving you sustainable margin growth and what attributes can be replicated? What is the percentage of products/raw materials supplied to you by your core-suppliers? What suppliers are leading the introduction of new technologies and products to market? Who are your top trading partners and how many transactions have you completed with them? This Supply Chain Analytics Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Supply Chain Analytics challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Analytics investments work better. This Supply Chain Analytics All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Supply Chain Analytics Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Supply Chain Analytics maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Analytics improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose Supply Chain Analytics projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Analytics and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Supply Chain Analytics Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Analytics areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the Supply Chain Analytics self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.