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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

“We are considering the purchase of Blue Yonder, Logility, Kinaxis, o9, or OMP. How do you define excellence in planning? Companies that buy technologies from an RFP process have a high likelihood of ending up in this predicament. Buying planning software is a lot like buying a car. ” Lora.

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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. While another ecommerce company might choose to arrange its warehouses more conventionally, Amazon has learned to exploit the needs of consumers to drive its internal efficiencies along with its service promises.

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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

“We are considering the purchase of Blue Yonder, Logility, Kinaxis, o9, or OMP. How do you define excellence in planning? Companies that buy technologies from an RFP process have a high likelihood of ending up in this predicament. Buying planning software is a lot like buying a car. ” Lora.

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Here we have compiled a list of the top six challenges that CPG companies face in the post-pandemic market. The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. The planning process should be automated, repeatable, and not dependent on Excel-based manipulation.

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Network Investment. Defining the ROI.

Supply Chain Shaman

In addition, a purchase order changes three-to-four times and there is a black hole (data is caught between email systems of trading partners for one-to-two days). Purchase order data, while not as important, has the smallest gap. PE Firm Buy-out and Consolidation. Most is silo’d. Many systems without interoperability.

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Battered by Fierce Winds. Will E2open Survive?

Supply Chain Shaman

This notice of the Rodanthe house purchase by the National Park Service was listed in my news feed above an article that Elliott Management Partners announced a confirmed 13.8% stake in E2open ( ETWO ) and was considering a takeover of E2open to return the company to private status. While the company’s adjusted earnings of $0.04

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Early in the 1980s, the company invested in an IBM/360 mainframe along with three “portable computers.”