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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

My job was redesigning work to improve effectiveness. It was blasphemy when I started socializing the concept of business leaders typing their memos and using email. At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. Today’s organizations are more complex. Why Jump Now?

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Why Organizational Alignment is Critical to the Supply Chain Response

Supply Chain Shaman

Use of Supply Chain Descriptors Most organizations are locked into functional silos driven by functional metrics. Stuck in a rut, supply chain leaders try to punch their way through a set of conflicting metrics and priorities each day. When manufacturing and procurement report through the same leader, they are better aligned.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. The second disturbing fact is that business leaders cannot access planning data, so a planner must interpret the data.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

The question in my mind is, “Will we drive substantial improvement in outcomes? Use Cases I think that the use cases for Narrow AI to improve insights are pretty clear. I spoke to a company weeks ago that was excited about using the Sales Force Platform and AWS to improve planning. Or transform work?” How about you?

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Transversing the Paradox River

Supply Chain Shaman

Definition As I follow the evolution of supply chain technology, I am struck by what I see as a stream of paradox and anomaly, and the tendency of supply chain leaders to cling to convention. Today’s supply chain leaders have a fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) but are blind to the advantages and capabilities of Web 2.0

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The lack of interoperability between decision support platforms is a problem for companies attempting to improve decisions from the channel to supplier bi-directionally through technology. In the PWC survey, the focus for the supply chain leader for the next 12-18 months is cost reduction, which raises questions for me and makes me sad.

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Parts Town: An O2C Journey from Manual Processing to Digital Transformation

Speaker: Sarah Gibson, Platinum Operations Manager

The order-to-cash (O2C) process is often considered the lifeblood of an organization. It’s why so many business leaders are looking to next generation of O2C solutions to unlock value across their enterprise — value that’s necessary to remain competitive. Improved order processing speed and accuracy via machine learning.

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What Supply Chain Leaders Keep Getting Wrong

Speaker: David Blonski, Chief Operations Officer of Elementum

In an environment that’s never been more challenging, supply chain leaders are as determined as ever to decrease costs and improve performance. Meanwhile, the teams are overworked, information is fragmented across the organization, and decisions are still being made reactively and anecdotally.