This document summarizes a conversation with John Jackiw on metrics, KPIs, and process insights for implementing high performance manufacturing. It discusses a three-layered model for metrics at the corporate, operations, and external financial levels. It also introduces the concept of Resource Consumption Accounting (RCA) as a tool that brings together real-time operations data and a quantity-based cause-and-effect methodology to enable better production and financial decisions. RCA leverages both manufacturing execution systems and ERP packages to provide a common understanding of resource consumption across management levels.