Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

As you read this blog, I hope that you will see me as a positive contrarian versus an old curmudgeon. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. Some solutions now include proactive event management driving recommendations to correct/prevent disruption. As I listen, I struggle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. Avoid implementing Aera on top of an existing SAP APO implementation.) Advanced planning tools(APS) never considered the issues of logistics.

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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. She cannot count the number of SCM software acquisition announcements that promised 1+1=10. Very few software acquisitions reach their potential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. For those who are new to reading the Supply Chain Shaman blog, let me begin my analysis with a disclaimer. LLamasoft Is Aggressively Aggregating Network Design Software Assets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They knew little about the software market. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

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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. While many technology companies have co-opted the network of networks message, today there is no interoperability between network solutions. Holiday travel.

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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. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. E2open sells a cloud-based solution for network collaboration. History of Terra Technology.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In this blog post, I will delve into 5 issues companies typically experience with their S&OP software. This makes S&OP implementation a difficult process, especially when it comes to finding the right tools. Finding Software to Drive S&OP: 5 Dysfunctions companies typically encounter . image source: [link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear.

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Bristlecone

MAY 7, 2020

SAP Ariba Guided Buying empowers employees to make their own purchasing decisions – while ensuring they follow your procurement guidelines and buy from your preferred suppliers. Bristlecone Industry-Specific Tactical Sourcing (BITS) is a prime example of how we amplify the value of SAP technologies.

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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. I write on this blog, on LinkedIn, and on Forbes.).

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In this blog post, I will delve into 5 issues companies typically experience with their S&OP software. This makes S&OP implementation a difficult process, especially when it comes to finding the right tools. Finding Software to Drive S&OP: 5 Dysfunctions companies typically encounter . image source: [link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 5, 2016

Target employed JDA Software for demand forecasting and inventory replenishment. Data for roughly 75,000 different products was fed from SAP, according to the article. So that approach fails because it does not validate the ability of the vendor solution to model the buyer’s supply chain accurately. headquarters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Increasingly, companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility, but as they work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. The gaps are large.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

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. » Impact of SMAC on Enterprise Software Applications.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The enterprise value of Micro Focus is reported to be $2 billion and the purchase price is reported to be 2.2 The most visible was in 2016, in an upwards of $9 billion merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) software business in an effort to create what was reported as a pure-play enterprise software company.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

When buying business software you have two basic approaches to choose from: building a best of breed stack, or opting for a single vendor solution. In this guide to best of breed vs single vendor software. While single vendor solutions will offer a wider array of functions – sometimes beyond what a single business might need.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” There are too few people in the world who are really knowledgeable about inventory management software tools. However, let’s face facts.

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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. While, in 2012, SAP acquired Ariba. In this period the concept of trading exchanges were largely overhyped and the solutions under-delivered.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. The first evolution of technologies were built by best-of-breed solution vendors. This new solution was favored by the Information Technology (IT) organization.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Once upon a time, companies had to manage purchasing departments and procurement management as though it was the Dark Ages. Everything was done by hand—there were no computer software programs to help, there were no emails, and there were no spreadsheets. . Procurement Tracking Softwar e: What Does Tracking Do?

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QAD

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Adaptive ERP software developed specifically for the medical device industry can help provide a strong infrastructure so you can be more productive. . The attempt to comply can sap efficiency and put pressure on shared services. The post The Remedy for Disruption in the Medical Device Industry appeared first on QAD Blog.

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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. Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining Tools offer promise, but the typical social listening tools used in digital marketing like Coremetrics and Radian6 are grossly inadequate. These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask.

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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. Cost Savings. Larger compute power at faster speed with more control.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. 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. Here I share my world view. Everyone has a bias.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 4, 2021

SAP has provided tools to achieve extensibility, both within the S/4HANA Cloud system (in-app) and when there is a need to connect S/4HANA Cloud to external systems (side-by-side). Let’s take a look at extensibility and the ‘what and how’ of the extensibility features in SAP S/4HANA. This blog focuses on In-App Extensibility.

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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. Start with the Gartner Five Stage Maturity Model. Consumer sentiment. Macroeconomics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Sometimes referred to as ANPR (Automatic License Plate Recognition) cameras, your license plate recognition cameras will integrate with automated Weighbridge software to simplify the automation of your weighbridge. As a faster and more reliable company, you can present your clients as leaders in their field and solutions to their problems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven. The concepts surrounding demand driven sound right.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. Today’s post is a follow up blog post to the post written a week or so back called “Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.”

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2022

.”[1] A nationally-focused study published by SAP Canada and IDC Canada concluded, “Digital transformation will be the most valuable business investment Canadian companies can make as they enter 2022.”[2] And, according to the staff at MHI, “Digital technologies and tools are table stakes.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Procurement as end-to-end process owner .

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Confused on solution capabilities–the differences and commonalities of these solutions– she had no idea where to start to connect them together. Each technology solution operates within well-defined functional silos. While many think that blockchain offers a solution. In buying solutions, trust, but verify.

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Claritum

JUNE 3, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Procurement the barrier to doing business. The number of employees procuring outside of any formal procurement structure is increasing. This increase driven by the many marketplace services available in the cloud and the ease of purchase and familiarity of these Marketplaces.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

With lean supply chain/inventory strategies and just-in-time fulfillment at the forefront of contemporary business practices, it has never been more critical to shorten the gap between purchase order and settlement. That is where TMS solutions can play a very significant role. Order fulfillment. Order shipment to customer.

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