Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Procurement Metrics Supply Chain Technology 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 14, 2013
It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. Ten-year averages – food manufacturing companies.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
Source: Dictionary.com. The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” Most supply chain planning teams do not know their customers. In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value.
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Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 16, 2015
The most significant for the supply chain market are assets from Baan, Formation Systems, Fygir, Intentia, Lawson, MAPICS, Mercia, and SSA Global. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The current market offers no solution.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. The digital supply chain is cross-functional and aligned market-to-market. Traditionally, supply chain technologies are batch processes. Digital sourcing? Digital path to purchase?
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2014
This new solution was favored by the Information Technology (IT) organization. By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. Tomorrow, I get to deliver this message to a large manufacturing client. The book is a story.
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 9, 2023
Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable.
Talking Logistics
APRIL 12, 2017
Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. getting buy-in from drivers and other stakeholders) and implementing appropriate metrics to measure and drive performance.). If you’re a manufacturer or retailer, you can track market supply and demand and leverage the data to build supply chain resilience with diversified sources.
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