Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Avoid implementing Aera on top of an existing SAP APO implementation.) I am currently working on a couple of case studies for this blog on how business leaders used digital twin modeling during the pandemic. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. (Baseline demand reflects market potential.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. I give you this evidence in this blog.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The blog post, What About Them Apples , raised a lot of heated discussion on LinkedIn. There were two great blog posts on the topic of DDMRP on Linkedin last week. Shaun has the courage to closely examine SAP’s market claims. Shaun debates the launch of DDMRP in SAP. Quite the dust-up… Why? I admire Shaun.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement). We’ll have to see how this partnership evolves over time, but on paper, it’s a win for both companies and customers.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Fixing it requires sourcing compatible new parts and a repairman, replacing it means I’ll have to wait 6-12 weeks for something to be in stock, and doing nothing means I have no ice. Then I thought about a conversation I had with Simon Ellis, Program Vice President at IDC around the topic of SAP APO and old refrigerators.

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QAD

APRIL 14, 2022

Pollution from the internal combustion engine (ICE) and the sapping of natural resources needed for farming by urban sprawl, climate change and others. . The benefits could provide solutions to many disruptive forces currently impacting agriculture, farming and food manufacturing. What are the Benefits and Impacts of Vertical Farming?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Unfortunately, this gives them little time to keep up.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This was the case for the client stories that I will share in this blog. The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. The first in the 1990s was Manugistics, the second in the early 2000s was SAP APO, and now their solution is SAS. The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. The answer?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. If you do a google search, you will find lots of accolades and positive press on the acquisition of SmartOps by SAP, but the Shaman is a skeptic. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006. Inventory is now the primary supply chain buffer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2013

The blogs, social media networks, and pundits are whirring with predictions and accolades. The company partnered with SAP to launch a product offering, SAP Supply Chain Response by icon-scm, in 2010. This licensed software offering was purchased at slightly under 3X revenues. SAP is betting on the Ariba platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Today as I sit scrunched into a coach seat in 26C, working on this blog post and hoping to not spill my coffee on my neighbor, I dutifully type to complete my weekly post. EDI is too cumbersome, and SAP Ariba’s focus, despite the marketing hype, is primarily on managing indirect spending. (My Companies want SAP IBP to work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math. The Path Forward.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

He explains, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Simulate the CO 2 footprint of the plan through procurement, production, and transport. ” Implement.

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Vinculum

AUGUST 17, 2022

This blog post has compiled a list of the best ERP software used for supply chain management across various industries. The software is designed with robust features allowing end users to monitor supply chain analytics, supply chain management, planning, transportation, sourcing, and procurement.

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Bristlecone

MAY 19, 2021

For instance, for a typical business, manufacturing partners, direct and indirect materials suppliers, financial institutions, services and contingent workforce providers, distributors, and logistics service providers form the tier one partners. Planning, Procurement and Execution Collaboration. This webinar is now available on-demand.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Mindy Davis , SAP’s Vice President of Global Marketing for the Digital Supply Chain, explains, “Supply chains need to be risk-resilient and efficient. As Davis notes, “Risk-resilient supply chains integrate design, planning, manufacturing, logistics, maintenance, and service. 4] Rashid, op. 7] Rashid, op.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. The event will be invitation only for fifteen manufacturers and fifteen technologists. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes. The gaps are large. I accepted his challenge.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Many medical device manufacturers are looking more closely at how they can make their operations less vulnerable to disruption. There may be opportunities your medical device manufacturing operation can leverage – in labor, materials, manufacturing and the supply chain – to make your infrastructure more resilient in the face of change.

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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. It is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. My view is that both SAP and the large consulting organizations perpetuate a very functional view of supply chain management which is detrimental to building effective value networks. A Critical Review of the Contract Manufacturing Model.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

We interpret that to be the sourcing of products among retailers and manufacturers within countries of lowest cost manufacturing that has occurred in this same period. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. They are step change requiring either the redeployment of existing technologies or the purchase of new platforms. This includes unstructured text data (this can include data from social networks, ratings and reviews from blogs and websites, and channel data), weather data, and transactional data.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

SAP APO is sunsetting in 2025. In our previous blog , we outlined the reality that APO users are missing out on significant strategic and competitive advantages because of their continuing reliance on outdated, on-premise technologies to do supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear. The research is a study of large manufacturers. The answer is interesting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. 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. At that time, the demand processes were largely regional. The Problems. They are not well understood.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” The two primary buffers in the supply chain are manufacturing capacity and inventory. Background. 4 Maximize Buffers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2017

Let me start this blog with a story. At the time, I was working with two large manufacturing companies that were not clear on the definition of supply chain visibility. Examples include E2open, Elemica, GT Nexus (now owned by INFOR ), and SAP Ariba. As shown in Figure 2, few orders and purchase orders flow hands-free.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Working for a large manufacturer, she was trying hard; but failing, to integrate Ariba, Elemica, and GT Nexus. To help, I set up a series of dinner meetings for Maddy to speak to other manufacturers working on similar problems. Ethical Sourcing. These are all issues in ethical sourcing initiatives. None had the answer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

So, I thought that I would write a blog to answer what seems like a simple question. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Such a deep question on twitter. I could not. Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Manufacturers with a global supply chain network took the brunt of suspended operations during the pandemic. Now there are increasingly competitive and political pressures to bolster their domestic production, resume hiring, and minimize or eliminate their reliance on external sources that are perceived as risky. electronics).

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Bristlecone

JULY 16, 2020

Can they still be referred to as the best practices if they don’t cover the basics, such as scoring based on a PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technical, Legal and Environment) analysis before making crucial decisions related to sourcing and manufacturing outsourcing? Unfortunately, for some, it’s too late.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2018

Your company has an older supply chain planning (SCP) system of record (SOR) like SAP APO that was developed in the 1990s. This blog and the complete document (available for download) describes goals, technologies and approaches for getting there. This approach is multi-enterprise, service-driven and optimized for profit. Demographics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I have written several blogs on what I think that the third act will look like.). Despite the fact that the cost of memory decreased a million-fold in 55 years, the majority of supply chain solutions use relational databases from vendors like Oracle, SAP or Teradata. I term this generation of applications the third act. (I

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. No Purchase Orders were used. The Ford Motor Company led by Henry Ford and The Toyota Manufacturing Company led the way to VMI.

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