The idea of algorithms and software sounds good but i am just thinkin about the input and data that needs to be fed. It should never become time consuming.
I agree with FLYINGSCOT here that benchmarking is very essential in assessing the overall performance of the supply chain and in identifying the weak areas. Besides the difficulty in obtaining data, one other issue that's usually faced is the reliability of the data. Accuracy of the data is of prime importance in order for the benchmarking activity to be successful.
I have participated din many benchmarking exercises over the years. The most fruitful ones spent a lot of time upfront developing the correct metrics and automating the data collection system. This helped overcome the hurdles of people collecting disparate data or not cooperating with data collection because of the perceived burden. Then we incentivized people to improve the metrics and benchmarking system itself. I believe benchmarking is key to running a worldclass business.
Lalit, benchmarking is an important factor in performance monitoring across industry. But for benchmarking, who is providing the guidelines are important. Like ISO or QA agencies, there should be some apex bodies to quantify the bench marking standards. In normal, most of the companies are rating products themselves with better performances because the standards are fixing internally. The same standard may vary across different companies for the same product. So there should be some apex bodies to standardize and quantify the metric values.
the most critical part of this exercise would be to actually identify the data sources. wrong slection of this could result in jargon and at the same time the interpretation skills are really important to arrive at right solutions. I'm just wondering if there is a standard software with provision for custom options can be really useful for the ems and component supplier across the world to assess the performance of their supply chain. If we add a very good intelligient interpretation algorithm to such tool can greatly reduce the human need. Any ideas on this already.
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