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Network Investment. Defining the ROI.

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply network–shipments and production of trading partners–represents over 70% of the environmental impact of supply chain decisions. This looks like the same pattern from two decades ago despite the evolution of technology capabilities.” Opportunity Cost of Endless ERP Upgrades. ” I agree.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet. Make Anne Successful.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

Logistics Viewpoints

Several top executives laid out Infor’s strategy for differentiating their solutions based on their technology, product development, and customer service. Infor’s Approach to Industry-Specific Solutions The ERP market is making the transition to the Cloud. Which suppliers or products were more likely to cause problems?

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

It is time to bring Manufacturers, Retailers, and Distributors together with Technology Providers in order to better understand the issues and generate ideas to help build the “network of networks.” Short of the initial launch of B2B exchanges in 2002, no brand owner drove the adoption of network technologies. Technology Evolution.

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China’s WMS Market Has Significant Potential

Logistics Viewpoints

However, due to the technology gap, in this period overseas giants ruled the Chinese market. China’s WMS Market is Less Concentrated Chinese manufacturing enterprises do not pay much attention to individual warehouse management systems or products. China WMS Market Trends Firstly, WMS suppliers need to build their own “ecosystem”.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. He feels that based on his years of experience with a software provider, he has a whizzbang technology. The more integration points of Advanced Planning System (APS) to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the larger the bullwhip impact.

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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. I believe demand is a flow based on the combination of products/services/customers and channels, as shown in Table 1.