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The Monthly Metric: Inventory Insights Throughout its four years in this little corner of cyberspace, The Monthly Metric has often discussed measurements that help supply managers keep tabs on

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The Monthly Metric: Coronavirus Calculations The Monthly Metric is continuing its look at how supply management organizations should examine their analytics amid the coronavirus (COVID-19)

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Making Headway in Tail-Spend Management Supply management organizations have tended to ignore tail spend, considering it non-strategic. But as they realize the cost savings that can be derived,

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The Monthly Metric: Managed Spend Per Category Management Employee Category management has become a highly strategic discipline, exemplified by Institute for Supply Management® including it among

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Inside Supply Management’s Best of 2019 There was never a dull moment in 2019 for the supply management profession. Even veteran practitioners have said that — amid an unprecedented amount of

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The Monthly Metric: Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time Welcome to Year 4 of The Monthly Metric, where a frequent theme is that the procurement and finance departments should be partners in achieving

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The Monthly Metric: Risk Analytics Review As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to dramatically alter daily life and test supply chains, it’s never been more important for procurement

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The Monthly Metric: Defect Rate Welcome to the November edition of The Monthly Metric, as analytics-minded supply management professionals are still bouncing back from the tryptophan and sweets

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The Monthly Metric: ROB Inventories Subindexes This month’s measurement is ground that The Monthly Metric has wanted to cover for some time: the ISM® Report On Business®. Each month, Institute

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The Monthly Metric: Risk Management Score The 2015 white paper that introduced Institute for Supply Management®’s (ISM®) Mastery Model describes risk, one of the model’s 16 core competencies,

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