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

AUGUST 21, 2015

The technology market is rife with unsubstantiated claims and myths. Each year, I publish a report analyzing the technologies in the S&OP space. I sent the report to technology vendors listed in the appendix with a deadline for feedback on factual accuracy for 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday. New technology is evolving.

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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 results confound me. Let me share the story.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 15, 2024

Over the past few years, the relentless disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic, natural calamities, geopolitical tensions and economic instability have exposed glaring vulnerabilities in supply chains across the globe. That said, implementing AI in your supply chain can be a daunting task.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” I am a nomad, searching for a good definition of supply chain excellence. It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 9, 2013

I was writing the book, Bricks Matter and I wanted a better definition of Supply Chain Excellence. For the reasons why, please read my recent blog post ). I believed that there was a strong tie between supply chain excellence and corporate performance. The Building of the Index. What can we Learn from the Index?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

So, I thought that I would grab a cup of coffee and pen a short blog post before I take off for Phoenix to work with clients and attend the Manhattan Software event. Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work.

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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. “Where would the supply chain technology industry be without all of the bulls#&t?” ” Based on my research, it is clear to me that buyer frustration with supply chain technology is increasing.

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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

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. Question 1: What drives a Successful Implementation of Supply Chain Planning? Supply chain planning is now on its third decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. Most of the discussions are circular.

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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. However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. I give you this evidence in this blog.).

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. Now supply chain professionals have another different set of challenges on how to get product to the entire country where consumer-oriented outlets (i.e. Here’s what we found: 1. fast food or retail) are rapidly expanding. Transfer taxes.

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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. “Where would the supply chain technology industry be without all of the bulls#&t?” ” Based on my research, it is clear to me that buyer frustration with supply chain technology is increasing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. The technology market for B2B supply chain is consolidating.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

We are at a software and consulting junction point. In a similar vein, SAP Hana has a huge marketing machine behind its launch, but I question if the price is worth the value. Write the contract with phased payments after test and learn and allow the team to work with the technology to prove the business case. Confusion reigns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

They will soon change your supply chain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supply chain systems and IT architectures. I have written several blogs on what I think that the third act will look like.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2016

In the times of drought, when words do not flow, the item on my to do list– write my Shaman blog –that does not get fulfilled. Writing the blog sits on my notebook list day-after-day and I cannot cross it off. As a child, I never fashioned myself as a writer, and the concept of blogging is still quite new to me.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I know of few areas in supply chains discussion that raise as much dialogue or ire. ” 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. ” I am in the middle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Yesterday, I spoke at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Leaders Forum on innovation. I asked the audience for a show of hands to understand how many of the supply chain leaders in the room were testing blockchain. The Supply Chain Insights webinar series is designed as an educational forum for learning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” Figure 1: Gaps in Supply Chain Visibility. I am wondering what would happen if we got technology leaders in the same room and brainstormed a solution?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2016

Today’s supply chain is inside-out. At this session, we wanted to brainstorm together–supply chain leaders with technology visionaries. How to drive interoperability between solutions that automate the extended supply chain. “It is hard for me stay current on technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

One of the favorite parts of my job is teaching classes on how to take supply chain concepts to the next level to improve corporate performance. I love helping people to see supply chain concepts differently. Both move the supply chain design from inside-out to outside-in. As I teach the class, I learn too.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

in your value network can be significantly automated to take place in almost real-time, or at least, in relevant time. 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., Detection of incidental challenges (e.g.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

in your value network can be significantly automated to take place in almost real-time, or at least, in relevant time. 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., Detection of incidental challenges (e.g.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Regardless of the intentions of the founders of S&OP (generally attributed to Richard Ling and colleagues at Oliver Wight in the 1980s), in practice S&OP processes are often seen as narrowly focused supply chain initiatives. In the rest of this blog, I will use the terms interchangeably.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Or will companies stumble on the path by mistakenly implementing supply-centric processes and calling them demand-driven initiatives? As a writer of research on demand-driven supply chains for over eight years, I find many amusing. Supply chain leaders feel stuck. Their current technologies are inadequate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2015

The problem is that few P&L Leaders understand supply chain planning. In a conversation last week with supply chain leaders, in reviewing the chart in Figure 3, they emphasized that successful planning requires a team of both junior and senior planners. Figure 4: The Long Tail of the Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. Let me explain.

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QAD

JUNE 27, 2019

This year at Explore, many of the conference attendees were very excited about QAD’s advanced technology direction, including the debut of Production Execution in the QAD Labs. Based on the outstanding response to QAD Production Execution, it is clear that QAD’s customers have an avid taste for advanced technology. Automotive.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

The level of sophistication in the consumer chain has advanced a thousand-fold in the past decade alone. What was formerly a rather simple process of planning promotions has now become a complex blend of technology and skill at predicting consumer behavior. They have no fear of technology and embrace it as easily as blinking an eye.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The strength of any chain is defined by its weakest link. A supply chain, or as I prefer to say, a value network, is similarly constrained. There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. I’ve heard the driverless vehicle used as an analogy for the autonomous supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We are watching the redefinition of the principles of safe and secure supply chains and corporate liability. PCA was a small player in a complex supply chain of big brands. I think that we should pray today for all of the leaders of food supply chains in food and pharmaceutical companies. What happened?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. I consider Paul to be an elite Supply Chain leader.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2013

Technology Services. View all Infosys blogs. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.

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