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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. In 2004, I worked with the client to help define specifications and shortlist potential solutions. The volatile meat market changes daily.

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Supply Chain’s Next Decade of Dealing With the Unknown

MIT Supply Chain

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Decisive phase But some of the 2014 challenges we still witness today have become more urgent. billion).

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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

of revenue on IT solutions and expensive solutions to improve performance, yet degrade balance sheet results against peer group sectors in tough markets? Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. How could the industry spend 1.7%

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Evolution of B2B Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS. While, in 2012, SAP acquired Ariba.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 billion over the next five years as part of its long-term goal to cut in half its emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”[5] ”[6].

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. This is the world view of finance and why there is so much friction between procurement and finance. Barrier #1.

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Network Consolidation: A Step Forward for Market-Driven Value Networks?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, Infor purchased GT Nexus in 2015; OpenText purchased GXS in 2014, GHX purchased H-Card, LLC today; E2open purchased Terra Technology in May 2016 and Orchestro on Monday. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. The solutions evolved from different funding models.