Supply chain performance is crucial to the success of many companies. The supply chain process contains many moving parts each dependent on the execution of the process that precedes it in the flow. Every company employs some sort of system to monitor, manage and tune the complete process cycle. These systems employ everything from hand written reports to spreadsheets to elaborate dashboards. Many times users need to link to multiple systems to get a complete understanding of what is happening—probably one of the highlights of your day: “Honey, guess what I got to do at work today?…Sift through tons of spreadsheets and dashboards to figure out what’s going on at work.” (End of sarcastic voice). Needless to say, it doesn’t feel like time well spent, but you know that there are important performance issues hidden within the data.Read more