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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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• Risk

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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• Risk
• Sourcing

The Monthly Metric: Cash Flow From Operations Cash flow from operations (CFFO) is a measurement that has increased in importance at many procurement organizations, due in part by the coronavirus

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• Cost and Price Management
• Financial Analysis

The Monthly Metric: Aligning With Finance Supply managers have an opportunity to become more influential and strategic partners in their businesses, and one of the best ways to do that is to

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• Financial Analysis
• Supplier Relationship Management

The Monthly Metric: Level of Integration Between Procurement Applications Even before COVID-19, supply managers realized they no longer could operate in silos, and that integration is critical to

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• Systems Capability and Technology

The Monthly Metric: Overall Equipment Effectiveness Year 4 of The Monthly Metric closes with an interesting analytic: In fact, so much time can be spent discussing its shortcomings that one

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• Systems Capability and Technology

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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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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• Supply Management

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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• Sourcing

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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• Supply Management