Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 10, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains.

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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 16, 2024

Before reading this post, consider reading my prior blog post, Don’t AI This. Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2024 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. This includes various supply chain management needs focused on business processes and decision-making.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 19, 2023

By integrating with SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Data warehouse cloud and SAP ERP software, the SKU Rationalization solution by ThroughPut.ai can optimize the product mix to generate rapid free cash flow improvements for SAP customers. the industrial AI supply chain pioneer, today announced that its ThroughPut.ai

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SAP Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Design Software Optimization Software 52

Vinculum

AUGUST 17, 2022

Effective implementation of the ERP system allows the companies to handle the supply chain, inventory, and production at various levels. It can also be used as an effective tool to manage customer queries and sales. The ERP software will automate products’ transition from storage to shipment.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. Like riding a bumpy road, the supply chain leader is riding the ups and downs of changing market conditions facing greater variability day-to-day. Here, based on interviews with supply chain leaders, I share lessons learned. It will not be over soon.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply and Demand Procurement Analytics 297

Bristlecone

APRIL 22, 2020

Bristlecone S/4NOW for CPG is Now an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP S/4HANA. The coronavirus pandemic is causing unprecedented disruption and exposing weaknesses in the global supply chain. Today, perhaps now more than ever, CPG supply chains must be agile and resilient.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Supply chain disruption is a fact of life for every company that moves any type of product. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. A resilient supply chain may be stretched to the max, but it doesn’t break.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Prior to the pandemic, efficiency was the primary focus of most supply chain operations. I’m not implying that efficiency no longer matters — it obviously does — but a disrupted supply chain can’t be efficient. Severe disruptions during the pandemic changed that focus to resiliency. Here’s the rub.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

The bottom line is that network connectivity is not a core competency for many companies, which is why software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, which come with a built-in network of carriers and trading partners, have been gaining traction in the industry (see my recent conversation with Evan Puzey from Kewill on The Network Effect in TMS ).

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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. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supply chain innovation. History of Terra Technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

It has been a while since I penned a blog post on New Year’s predictions, but today as I sit and drink my hot chocolate, I feel the itch to write. Bear markets drive heightened interest in supply chain management. These supply chain groups are more global and diverse. The impact may surprise us. The teams are new.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. We had just recovered from a recession, and my goal was to help supply chain leaders create a better supply chain by the end of the decade. At that time, Supply Chain 2020 seemed so far away.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. 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). The research is a study of large manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 9, 2019

Over the last month, venture capitalists looking at the supply chain market called 3x/week. Today, companies are waiting for the next evolution of planning software. SAP is ceding its 45% market share to new players. I give thanks that the pace of change is quickening and promising technologies maturing.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” For the past several years, supply chain professionals have lived through a recurring series of obstacles and challenges — and that loop hasn’t ended. The Supply Chain Quarterly staff predicts, “The supply chain challenges of the past few years are far from over.”[1]

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Supply Chain Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain Material Savings China 130

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2014

“I read your blog, and was struck by some of your comments on Forbes,” stated the email. As I answered the phone, I heard the voice of an aggressive investor in supply chain technology software. I have been writing on what I term the “Third Act in Supply Chain Planning Software.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Supply chain planning user satisfaction is a flip of the coin. Satisfaction is low: one-in-two supply chain planning software users state satisfaction. Successful implementations start with the software selection. Supply chain planing is now three decades old. Mistakes happen. What to do?

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Software 150

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. You plan your supply chain to guarantee your service level outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

At the beginning of the third decade of supply chain management, a new class of applications was born. They were born from well-intentioned, bright professors from great schools – Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT )– in operations research. SmartOps was purchased by SAP.

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ThroughPut

MAY 14, 2024

Organizational supply chains are evolving into sophisticated data hubs. Modern supply chains demand extensive coordination and tracking, generating vast amounts of data—several petabytes, in fact. That said, data is not a new element in supply chains. The era of merely transporting products is over.

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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. I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Holiday travel. Could it help in track and trace?

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OptiProERP

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Did you know: 90% of manufacturing leaders see a positive relationship between their performance and the sustainability transformation of their organization? 62% of global Co2 emissions come from manufacturing sectors? 54% of global energy consumption is from the manufacturing and production sector?

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Lora Cecere of SC Insights was the first of the supply chain expert opinions I saw on DDMRP. The software approaches and project implementations are not enterprise class. However, she disagrees with DDMRP’s principles of forecasting and the use of demand sensing technologies. She likes DDMRP flows and buffers.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There’s been disruption in the medical device industry recently – new technologies, more patient-centered development , hospitals pushing back on charges, more reimbursements being questioned, and supply chain issues due to the pandemic making shipments less reliable. Automation Improves Operational Efficiency.

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Inventory Management Software Supply Chain Software Material Savings Supply Chain Planning Software 91

o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As I sat at my kitchen table contemplating what I should do, my mind wandered to supply chain. 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. During our discussion we delved into the analogy that SAP APO is like an old refrigerator.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The supply chain is knotted. Yesterday, @DamarqueViews asked me a question on twitter: “What do you think are the greatest barriers in the adoption of social technology in the supply chain?” So, I thought that I would write a blog to answer what seems like a simple question. It is unruly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 11, 2013

(This event is owned and run by WIS Publications and features insights on SAP product developments and software.) I am currently doing research in the area of analytics (reference Supply Chain Insights Report, The Art of the Possible ). Now an Eye on Serving Manufacturing Industries. Here I share my insights.

Analytics Software 150

Analytics Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Demand Planning Software 150

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2013

The blogs, social media networks, and pundits are whirring with predictions and accolades. She cannot count the number of SCM software acquisition announcements that promised 1+1=10. Very few software acquisitions reach their potential. The supply chain management market is troubled and needs some excitement.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 23, 2020

Almost every major media outlet, at some point during the crisis, has published a story about why or how supply chains are going to change in a post-pandemic world. Dave Evans ( @makrdave ), co-founder and CEO of Fictiv, agrees supply chains are going to change. He even suggests how supply chains will transform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Bristlecone

MAY 19, 2021

Global supply chains have become increasingly complex. In 2021, supply nodes are globally dispersed, spanning geographies, time zones, legal structures and business environments. It is this networked global architecture of the modern supply chain that increases risks and makes controlling its different parts cumbersome.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Network Software Supply Chain Design Software Analytics Software 150

Bristlecone

APRIL 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global supply chains in a manner that has very few parallels in history – and its impact continues to be felt globally and severely. Low manufacturing output. High demand, low supply. SAP IBP is one such solution. Reduced workforces. Port congestions. Escalating price of essentials.

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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. The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Make digital supply chain transformation a priority.

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Supply Chain Design Software Manufacturing Procurement Network Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 152

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. A common theme of the 2016 predictions was growth and scalability, so let’s look at how companies are using these technologies as we prepare for the innovations of 2017.

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