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8、供应链财务指标的追踪
对供应链战略、战术、运营更深入的情境智能应用，正在影响公司的财务指标。
Greater contextual intelligence of how supply chain tactics, strategies and operations are influencing financial objectives.
供应链可视化，通常是指能够清晰的看到供应链网络中供应商的多层次结构。作者的经验告诉我们，通过供应链决策的财务结果追踪回财务指标是可行的；而且通过将大数据应用与财务系统集成，提升行业快速的库存周转率是非常有效的。
Supply chain visibility often refers to being able to see multiple supplier layers deep into a supply network. It’s been my experience that being able to track financial outcomes of supply chain decisions back to financial objectives is attainable, and with big data app integration to financial systems, very effective in industries with rapid inventory turns. Source: Turn Big Data Into Big Visibility.
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9、产品质量追踪
产品追踪和召回本质上都是数据密集型的，大数据在这方面的潜在贡献是显著的。
Traceability and recalls are by nature data-intensive, making big data’s contribution potentially significant. Big data has the potential to provide improved traceability performance and reduce the thousands of hours lost just trying to access, integrate and manage product databases that provide data on where products are in the field needing to be recalled or retrofitted.
10、供应商质量提升
通过基于大数据的质量控制可以提升供应质量。
Increasing supplier quality from supplier audit to inbound inspection and final assembly with big data. IBM has developed a quality early-warning system that detects and then defines a prioritization framework that isolates quality problem faster than more traditional methods, including Statistical Process Control (SPC). The early-warning system is deployed upstream of suppliers and extends out to products in the field.
本文原文作者：Louis Columbus, Fobes专栏作家
I’m serving as Director of Marketing, eCommerce and Analytics for Apttus. Previous positions include product marketing at iBASEt, Plex Systems, senior analyst at AMR Research (now Gartner), marketing and business development at Cincom Systems, Ingram Micro, a SaaS start-up and at hardware companies. I am also a member of the Enterprise Irregulars. My background includes marketing, product management, sales and industry analyst roles in the enterprise software and IT industries. My academic background includes an MBA from Pepperdine University and completion of the Strategic Marketing Management Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. I teach MBA courses in international business, global competitive strategies, international market research, and capstone courses in strategic planning and market research. I’ve taught at California State University, Fullerton: University of California, Irvine; Marymount University, and Webster University. You can reach me on Twitter at @LouisColumbus. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer.