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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

For reference, compare the performance of L’Oreal to its largest competitor, Estee Lauder. The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. Orbit Chart for L’Oréal at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

The market is flooded with references to AI, but few stop to give a definition. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data. Let’s start here: Data Analysis. We are not listening to what data has to tell us. The supply chain benefits through the use of market data at the speed of markets.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

He provides services to companies on master data management and is more familiar with transactional processing than decision support. For reference, authoritative identifiers are the starting point for processes where goods are tracked against a standard like fair labor or food safety. In deployments, data issues abound.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. On September 30, the big data company Palantir went public in an initial 22B$ market valuation. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.

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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors

Supply Chain Shaman

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. Dramatic improvement only happens when planning models use market data and the focus changes to evaluate an outside-in model to reduce latency. For many tech providers, the message often becomes a religious argument. Digitalization.

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Consumers and Retailers Have Embraced Omnichannel Operations

Enterra Insights

One retail sector that witnessed a dramatic rise in online purchases during the pandemic was the grocery sector. Analysts from Chicory note, “The grocery shopper’s path to purchase from digital to in-store and other online environments has always been obscure.”[2] The Omnichannel Consumer. The Omnichannel Retailer.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The systems–based on shipment and order data–were out of step with the market. With fixed models and hard-wired data feeds, teams could not adjust the planning systems to use consumption data or market indicators. Next Steps: Start to model demand based on market data to align the organization on baseline demand.