Through a newly minted partnership with a supply chain benchmarking service, business intelligence software provider Information Builders will deliver a new offering aimed at helping companies measure the performance of their supply chain operations.
The latest offering from Information Builders (IBI) uses the services of the Performance Measurement Group to give manufacturers and other companies insight into their performance against their industry peers, while utilizing IBI’s own performance management software to track supply chain operations against internal corporate goals.
Over the past decade, the Performance Measurement Group (PMG) has built a business on consulting services for companies seeking to grade their supply chain performance against those of their industry peers. Using the well-established SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference-model) model for supply chain functions developed by the nonprofit Supply Chain Council, PMG offers companies a detailed assessment of their performance against like companies, as well as expertise on how to address deficiencies.
The bundle of software and services announced this week is a means of giving manufacturers and others coordinated insight into both their external benchmarks and their internal targets, according to David Cook, IBI’s director of performance management solutions, in an interview with Managing Automation. The PMG service supplies the external view, while IBI’s WebFOCUS software provides the internal perspective.