2001 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Innovation 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. The reason?
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 4, 2018
I wanted to say, “You let the consultants influence you to buy the wrong technologies based on IT standardization. Today, since many do not test the solutions and often buy based on IT standardization, the probability of success is about the same as playing the tables in Las Vegas. Most planning happens in Excel Spreadsheets.
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Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. I remember my first briefing with Steelwedge in 2001. On March 26, 2015, I nsight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 My answer? I am not sure.
Supply Chain Insights
JANUARY 18, 2018
The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
It was earlier than even supply chain innovators. They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). We have built transactional buying relationships.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 14, 2013
It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. The consolidation of this industry has served the technology providers well, but has largely stymied innovation.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
He sold the company in 2001 when the company had achieved revenues of about $10 million. The company buying his company, EXE Technologies, is now infamous among those who have followed the WMS market. It was really intended to allow us to buy a few robots and rent some space, just get us started” and prove the business model.
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