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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supply chain design solution. Roughly 3,000 customers, prospects, and partners attended.

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Five Reasons Why Are We Not Making Progress on Inventory Management

Supply Chain Shaman

The cheese on the puffs stains my hands like I feel that mis-guided past practices have indelibly colored supply chain practices. In most value networks, downstream partners have progressively pushed costs and waste backwards in the extended supply chain. Supply chain planning is all about better math and modeling.

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3 Lessons from Gold and Silver Pawn: This… is Supply Chain, This… is Pawn Stars

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage If you read my prior blog, “ Storage Wars rescues supply chain ignominy ”, you would have seen my garage after I moved from Boston to San Diego. I used the supply chain ERP “shedding” theory to innovate and clear out my garage. This is so much like our world of supply chain.

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Let the Design Begin…

Supply Chain Shaman

It was far a cry from the neon and glitzy hotels of Las Vegas where I am often speaking. With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. The theatre was packed.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Swimsuits and dresses for weddings—you never buy just one,” says Joanie Demer, co-founder of Krazy Coupon Lady. People who buy portable generators during weather emergencies use them until the emergencies have ended, and then those go back too. Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supply chain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces. While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging. Today, we know that these assumptions were incorrect.

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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

ShipChain airs its first webinar, The State of Technology in Food Supply Chains 2019: Produce. We aired our first webinar about Technology and its impacts on the Food Supply Chain in June. Hundreds of amazing contacts that love what we are doing and want to incorporate blockchain into their supply chains.