Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. ” Smiling and nodding in agreement, he said, “ It is frustrating,” He continued, “Why is SAP not doing more with Ariba? She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle. By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. In this blog, I hope that I push you too.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” This was the subject of my last blog post, Upending the Apple Cart. In this blog post, I believe that we must start by examining the apples. ” I am in the middle. Here I share my world view.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Is it a coincidence that process industry leaders have standardized on SAP and blindly followed the SAP IT-centric definition of supply chain automation without holding SAP accountable to build effective supply chain solutions for the extended value network? In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint. The solution failed.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

You will need to excel at managing and accelerating the 3-D Cycle, if you want to win in digital economy. Walmart has been on an incredible acquisition and partnership spree, recently buying Flipkart and, as early as two years ago, partnering with JD.com. Logility recently purchased Halo which embeds ML.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Many teams will fight to gain recognition that anything which is not labeled SAP or Oracle will be good for the supply chain. This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). CRM and SRM are not the enterprise adapters to build value networks.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Bob Ferrari is the Executive Editor of the Supply Chain Matters Blog, and a periodic guest blogger on the Infosys Supply Chain Management blog. Pharmaceutical and Biotech.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. This is disruptive innovation. I was a skeptic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.) Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. I take independence seriously. This is my 310th post.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

It matters not what your metric is, you get the same results: too much of our trade spend goes down the drain, doesn’t it? As we have written in past blogs, point-of-sale (POS) data is a huge piece of that puzzle; but it cannot be the only piece. Bang…deduction! And we’re off to the races to identify the source and promotion involved.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 30, 2018

We created a visualization platform to focus on internal operational, and customer-facing metrics, which is NOT part of R&D’s scope of work – so we not on your turf.” Our goal was not to move to “Excel on steroids” but rather we wanted some level of control. Be mindful of the program becoming another “Excel on steroids”.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many excellent supply chain analytics tools in the market differ in features, focus areas, visualizations, and other vital elements. What is the Role of Performance Tracking and Metrics in Supply Chain Analytics Software? Performance tracking and metrics play a crucial role in the success of any supply chain.

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