Feb 16, 2007
How supply chain metrics are used?
SDExec.com reports on the results of a survey carried out by Maxager. The principal finding of the survey was,
Many manufacturers believe that it is important to measure the speed at which products are made, but very few have systems in place to do so
The survey results amply show that while everyone is aware that there is a problem, few have a solution:
The survey results showed that although respondents overwhelmingly (92 percent) believe that analyzing the speed with which they produced profitable products was important, 71 percent don’t have software or systems in place to do so. The result is that very few manufacturers (5.7 percent) have the ability to use a metric that is aligned with return on assets (ROA).
Here is a snapshot of Maxager’s solution to the problem:
Combining production velocity with margin produces a profit-per-minute metric. Being time-based, this metric is directly linked to ROA. It can be used at an operational level to measure the profitability of individual products, customers, deals, markets, sales regions, salespeople and production facilities. Then, everyday decisions about which products to make, who to sell them to and where to make them can be made collaboratively to maximize annual corporate profits and ROA.
What do you think? Does it work?
Tags: Metrics, Maxager survey, SDExec.com, Production velocity, ROA, Return on Assets