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31 03, 2025

Become a Knowledge Leader in AI for Supply Chains

By |2025-03-31T20:02:13+00:00March 31st, 2025|Leadership, Measurement, MPI Manufacturing Study, Supply chain, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Become a Knowledge Leader in AI for Supply Chains

Will AI unmask end-to-end supply chains so that every transaction is visible and actionable? Can AI substantially improve critical operational metrics such as return on invested capital (ROIC) and cash-to-cash cycle time? How much are your peers investing in AI for supply chains, and what are the results? If you or your clients have struggled to find concrete data to answer these questions, you’re not alone. But you won’t have to wait much longer. The 2025 Supply Chains and AI Study — conducted by The MPI Group — will examine how high-performance, resilient supply chains use and benefit from [...]

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10 03, 2025

What’s Working? Who’s Winning? The 2025 MPI Manufacturing Study Will Tell All

By |2025-03-10T17:34:48+00:00March 10th, 2025|Benchmarking, Leadership, Measurement, MPI Manufacturing Study, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on What’s Working? Who’s Winning? The 2025 MPI Manufacturing Study Will Tell All

If you or your clients need deep insight into global manufacturing metrics, you’ll get it in the 2025 MPI Manufacturing Study. The MPI Group has been conducting this Study since 2003, amassing one of the world’s premier databases of plant-level data. The Study offers insights into best practices and performance metrics across human resources, operations, supply chain, capacity/equipment/IT, sustainability, and other strategic functions. More than 20 different manufacturing sectors are surveyed via respondents in North America, Europe, and Asia, from companies with annual revenues ranging from $10 million USD to more than $10 billion USD. As with all MPI-branded [...]

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3 10, 2016

The Art of Measurement

By |2017-02-09T19:20:00+00:00October 3rd, 2016|Alec Pendleton, Measurement, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on The Art of Measurement

by Alec Pendleton What do you measure in your business? Too often, the answer is: The wrong stuff. Many leaders simply look at the numbers their accountants or  software give them, without asking: What do I really need to monitor, so that we have opportunities for improved operations — and higher profitability? Paradoxically, when devising measurements to manage by, it’s typically a good first step to decide what NOT to measure. A great example of this can be found in retailing. A retailer doesn’t create value by manufacturing a product. Instead, a retailer creates value by having the right [...]

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