Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? The Evolution of Supply Chain!

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

The Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) market has experienced significant growth in recent years, with even greater potential ahead. SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2021

I am constantly amazed that business leaders can engage with technologists month after month (often over eight and sometimes over a year) to select a supply chain planning system and then call me to ask for help on the decision. My organization does not believe in demand planning. Each supply chain has its own potential.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And where better to start than Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the supply chain market? As a result, we need to agree on some definitions before focusing on the supply chain space. Is research showing benefits of Artificial Intelligence in the supply chain market? Exhibit A: AI-powered yoga pants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2021

I am constantly amazed that business leaders can engage with technologists month after month (often over eight and sometimes over a year) to select a supply chain planning system and then call me to ask for help on the decision. My organization does not believe in demand planning. Each supply chain has its own potential.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2021

Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain , asks, “Emerging from the pandemic, where do we go from here?”[2] ”[2] It’s a question with which supply chain professionals have been wrestling for months. Bowman seems to think supply chain professionals should have been better prepared.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. Instead of jumping up and down on IOT shouldn’t we be discussing the redefinition of demand?” The Problems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Supply chain leaders are competitive. The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Now in 2018, we are starting to see the evolution of “Gods” with new business models that are redefining supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In the 1990s supply chain planning was over-hyped. The growth of the supply chain planning technology market disappointed investors resulting in consolidation and the decline of best-of-breed solutions. The industry does not have a definition. Why Is Supply Chain Planning Important? Hype ruled.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. Supply Chain of fashion industry involves a time based competition.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

As a supply chain professional, we need to consider how actions in one part of the supply chain affect both upstream and downstream operations. This is especially true for those that work in and manage the demand planning process. This sounds a lot like the definition for demand planning to me.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

In my work with supply chain clients, teams change, business strategies shift and dramas unfold. All are haunted by the river that runs through the supply chain. It is the river of “demand.” On an ongoing basis I view supply chain strategy documents. Each supply chain is unique.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 29, 2018

Recently, I spoke on the future of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum. For him, this meant growing top-line revenue with less supply chain inventory. Ajay, shown here, has a strong background of 25 years in supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2013

This morning, I woke to receive this email in my inbox: Good morning Lora, I have read with pleasure the insightful report related to SC 2020 (race for Supply Chain – April 2013). If it is possible, I would like to use some of the info for a presentation I will deliver in a couple of weeks to the General Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

Definition. A retailer is focused on shelf planning and assortment while a manufacturer is planning manufacturing supply and promotions. Definitions of Planning Horizons. While the term demand sensing is used with abandonment in the industry (often over-used), it is seldom clearly defined. The current state is a quagmire.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 29, 2018

Recently, I spoke on the future of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum. For him this meant growing top-line revenue with less supply chain inventory. Ajay, shown here, has a strong background of twenty-five years in supply chain planning.

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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. It is a story of supply chain innovation. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. Let’s start by taking a look at history.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable and the QAD DynaSys senior product management team’s vision of Digital Supply Chain Planning. . Could you tell us a bit more about Essilor’s supply chain organization? On one hand we have markets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. I loved my classes in supply chain strategy and naively believed that companies actively applied the principles of Porter’s theory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. I loved my classes in supply chain strategy and naively believed that companies actively applied the principles of Porter’s theory.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Cons: Merchants that are incented purely on sales may be more likely to inflate forecasts that would drive more inventory than needed into the supply chain. This con can be largely mitigated, however, if the merchants are incented on inventory in addition to sales. SUPPLY CHAIN.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Cons: Merchants that are incented purely on sales may be more likely to inflate forecasts that would drive more inventory than needed into the supply chain. This con can be largely mitigated, however, if the merchants are incented on inventory in addition to sales. SUPPLY CHAIN.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by CJ Wehlage The Supply Chain Insights annual conference was held on September 10-11, 2014 at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. Great memories here, as so much has changed in the supply chain research world these past 5+ years. All ex-AMR analysts on the stage, talking about the ‘Top 15 Supply Chains we Admire’.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2019

I help business leaders transform supply chains. In my annual Supply Chain Academy class, I offer office hours. I asked if he had read my article, Have You Given Your Demand Planner Some Love Today? Planning organizations around the world struggle for acceptance in a supply chain world that is mainly reactive.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2022

For the Supply Chain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended July 31, 2022 increased by 8% to $5.2 Logility announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starboard Solutions Corp., a Traverse City, Michigan based innovator of supply chain network design software. Logility, Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Last week, I was having breakfast with a CEO of a leading software supply chain management company. “Lora, you write about cognitive computing often stating that it will usher in the Third Act of Supply Chain Planning. Today’s supply chain is like the Flintstone era. I don’t get it.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal noted that over the last 36 months, supply chains have become more complex than ever before. This leads supply chains to continue to operate in silos, rather than in a connected manner. As a result, supply chains continue to be wasteful when looking at time, inefficiencies, and emissions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. I have followed the supply chain planning market for sixteen years as an analyst.

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Logility

MAY 25, 2022

Interconnected supply chain planning enables faster, more empowered decision-making. Supply chain organizations are now caught in the clutches of a global economy creaking beneath the weight of cargo embargoes, labor shortages, jammed ports and shipping lanes, and a pandemic that continues to evolve. Let’s face it

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2020

On Thursday morning, I began an engagement with a food manufacturer attempting to drive “Supply Chain 2.0. When I asked for a definition, the phone was silent. Most companies have a hairy, audacious goal, but have failed to give it definition. Only 9% of companies actively design their supply chains.

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