{"id":2740,"date":"2009-09-03T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2009\/09\/03\/a-tip-for-measuring-charting-trends\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T06:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:11:26","slug":"a-tip-for-measuring-charting-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/a-tip-for-measuring-charting-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tip For Measuring &amp; Charting Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my rant on Tuesday, you are well aware that I think that you should be measuring buyer performance.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>As you measure performance, a natural tendency is to gather and report statistics monthly. This is good. However, you may find that monthly trendlines on a chart can be very \u201czig-zaggy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We struggled with that with some of our internal measurements. 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