Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights and author of the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman read by over 28,000 global supply chain executives. The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence.
What is Supply Chain Excellence
2012 marked the thirtieth anniversary of supply chain process evolution. In this presentation, Lora uses recent research to take a look back at thirty years of supply chain excellence and helps audiences look forward to the future. She outlines how the definition of supply chain excellence changed in the last two decades and what should be the lessons learned. Using correlations on twenty years of supply chain financial ratio data, Lora helps audience participants gain new insights on how to think about:
Alignment
Which Supply Chain Metrics Matter to Financial Performance? Using the recent research on the Supply Chain Fundamental Score/Index and the Supply Chains to Admire, Lora shares insights on how different financial ratios correlate to balance sheet performance for each sector, and how each sector is performing on these Metrics that Matter. She also helps companies better understand how to use these metrics to define trading partner collaboration and organizational alignment
