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Purpose — This reflective paper aims to identify and discuss key areas for the development of, and research into, supply network performance measurement systems. Design/methodology/approach — The paper traces the broad history of performance measurement before identifying the specific issues that performance measurement has raised in the supply network environment from both local and global managerial perspectives. Having laid this foundation, the paper continues to examine the likely future challenges that managers of supply networks face. Findings — Four outstanding challenges are identified and discussed: the response to the increasing environmental challenges; the effect of the lean/agile debate on the development of supply networks and their measurement systems; the need to develop performance measurement systems to break through the ‘dyadic relationship’ barrier and make management of the supply network a more realistic aspiration; and challenges faced in making performance measurement a multi-cultural phenomenon and through this make management of international supply chains more effective. Originality/value — The paper identifies some of the outstanding issues in current and future network performance measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The computing scenario of analyzing large-scale data applications has become a challenge for managerial decision-making. The state-of-the art business processes require the enterprise executives to take to Data Warehouse (DWH) systems, lest their decisions are unstructured and losing. This paper gives an overview of data warehousing and pattern discovery techniques for business intelligence in taking selective decisions based on the business data. It also explains three solutions to handling ELDB systems for enterprise applications, and gives the related product details. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the journal "Production and Operations Management." The journal serves as a research journal in operations management in terms of manufacturing and services. It publishes scientific research regarding the problems, interests and concerns of managers who supervise product and manufacturing processes, operations and supply chains. It embraces all topics related to product process and design, operations, and supply chain management and accepts papers using any research paradigm. Meanwhile, the author presents the website www.poms.org for additional information.