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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. They are just too risky. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. Reflection. Evolution is messy.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

That will be in 2015, after the peak of oil [supply].”. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 million bbl/d in 2015.” . “We will see $300 a barrel — or roughly $250 in today’s dollars — because oil supply will be so short.

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The Supplier Management Secret Recipe

Supply Chain Game Changer

Over time I’ve had the opportunity to adopt these recipes; handwritten on the back-side of 1950’s newspaper scraps or in such faded ink that one can just barely see it reads ‘teaspoon’ not ‘tablespoon’. Leadership is always important, but increasingly important in times of crisis & uncertainty.

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E2open Acquires Steelwedge. Impact on Market?

Supply Chain Shaman

I asked him over and over, “Is the market ready for a solution for JUST Sales and Operations Planning?” ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable. Over the last two decades Steelwedge raised significant capital in three rounds: 4M$ in 2004, 16M$ in 2011 and 22.5M$ in 2015.

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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Note the general trend of improvement.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 1) In many businesses, the supply chain has never been subject to a design process, but has instead just … evolved. That figure highlights like no other how critical the interrelations are between an enterprise and its supply chain.

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IvaluaNow – the Morning After the (Louvre) Night Before

ivalua

The new quick deployment methodology enables clients to get best practice P2P in just 12 weeks, minimizing time to value. Duncan Jones from Forester then presented on “Executing a Successful Procurement Transformation”. There were plenty of blue-chip new customers last year, he told us, including L’Oréal, Ikea, and Capgemini.