Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

So instead of wearing out the sheets, I thought that I would do some blogging. Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. In this blog, I will focus on current market confusion. I hate jet lag.

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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$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver.

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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

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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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? I will let you draw your own conclusions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

In a similar vein, SAP Hana has a huge marketing machine behind its launch, but I question if the price is worth the value. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions. Priced in RFPs as 1.6M

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. It included an advanced planning algorithm, a self-tuning forecasting engine, SAP ERP connectors, and S&OP capabilities.

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Bristlecone

JULY 20, 2020

SAP S/4HANA supports this transformation through highly automated processes, robotics and machine learning applications that help predict outcomes. SAP Predictive Accounting for sales orders provides an overview of sales orders and their values regardless of billing status. SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. SAP Machine Learning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2016

With Infor’s acquisition of GT Nexus, SAP’s acquisition of Ariba and E2open’s acquisition of Terra Technology, it has grown more confusing for the business user. ” Some data needs to move quickly and with high velocity using streaming data architectures, while other data sources can move in batch processes.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. I will write more on this topic in my future blogs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. Here I share these insights and recommendations to the readers of this blog on how to get started. SAP’s redefinition of Ariba).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The definition is: An adaptive network focused on a value-based outcome that senses and translates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing operations. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

The only real problems they had outside of vying with their competitors were helping their accounting folks in the home office locate the source of deductions that were not obviously linked to the promotion plans; and heck, that wasn’t their problem anyway, right? It was a tedious effort, but, overall, rather easy. Ah, those were the days!

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Bristlecone

MAY 21, 2021

Procurement leaders are increasingly turning to SAP S/4HANA as their solution of choice. In October, SAP launched SAP S/4HANA 2020, and while there are numerous features that make S/4HANA stand out from other ERP solutions, what truly differentiates this latest release for procurement is its compelling offering of: Procurement Analytics.

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Elementum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intelligent Document Processing: IDP solutions use a combination of AI and RPA technologies to extract, process, and analyze data from documents and other structured or unstructured sources. Popular sources include Coursera, Udacity, edX, and LinkedIn Learning. In what ways can SAP enhance process automation for enterprises?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Many teams will fight to gain recognition that anything which is not labeled SAP or Oracle will be good for the supply chain. source Moody’s). Challenging the Status Quo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. Push value network providers like Elemica, E2open, GHX, GTNexus, IBM, Neogrid, OPenText (GXS), SAP and Tracelink to step up to the plate. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, for Linkedin , and for Forbes. It was not adequate. What to do?

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Detection of systemic challenges will be a bit more gradual and is based on the metrics that matter to your business, such as customer service, days of supply, etc., Diagnosing systemic challenges requires a hierarchy of metrics with respect to cause and effect (such as the SCOR® model). Detection of incidental challenges (e.g.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Management Consulting. Sustainability Services. Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Management Consulting. Sustainability Services. Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.

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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. Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large. I would use SAP APO only as a system of record.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.

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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. The source of the content is research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. A Supply Chain Leader will make progress on both of these key metrics with a very tight and controlled pattern. In my research, Colgate is the consummate example of adherence to IT standardization on SAP.

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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. Don’t expect Oracle and SAP to stand on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs. It will take us awhile to figure it out.

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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. And we’re off to the races to identify the source and promotion involved.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Hence it is not recommended as a single metric to be followed.

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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.” The goal was to enable an executive to generate exactly the metrics and charts they wanted, any time, with a “push of a button”.

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OptiProERP

JUNE 4, 2019

Other sources of demand include: Spare parts. The traditional forecast does not accurately represent and measure future metrics in detail. Generates detailed future metrics that state possible outcomes to plan new strategies, encounter past challenges and enable businesses to make well-informed decisions. Competition.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The investments in new approaches and deploying outside-in processes enables quicker sensing and bi-directional orchestration across source, make, and deliver. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 26, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The investments in new approaches and deploying outside-in processes enables quicker sensing and bi-directional orchestration across source, make, and deliver. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Data integration capabilities: Your supply chain generates data from various sources – inventory systems, production lines, transportation networks, etc. Top-tier analytics software should seamlessly integrate data from these disparate sources, offering a unified view of your entire supply chain.

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