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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. The results are questionable. I built value cases for sales.

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Logility Wins IDC’s SaaS CSAT Award for Supply Chain Management Customer Satisfaction

Logility

Benchmark Based on Global Survey Highlights Logility’s Leadership in Ease of Use and Driving Rapid Benefits. ATLANTA – January 14, 2020 – Logility, Inc., These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC.

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

However, none of the three companies knew this before the benchmarking activity. When I go in to help a company, I first benchmark their supply chain ratios. (For clarity, Return on Assets (ROA) is defined by net income/total assets, and Operating Margin is calculated by dividing net income/revenue.). It constantly amazes me.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. 3) Benchmark Data and Early Alerting. We have a market of niche solutions.

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Shippers Dissatisfied with 3PLs’ Dinosaur Technologies

Supply Chain Collaborator

The first study of shipper satisfaction in 2002 revealed only 27% of shippers was satisfied with the IT capabilities offered by their 3PL provider. However the carrier management, rate management, rate benchmarking and a host of other performance metrics are absent from the 3PL-based tools.

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Why Our Goal Should Not Be an Integrated Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002 I worked for Gartner Group in the business applications practice. It was also clear to me that transactional data was only one of the feeds to the planning engines (approximately 60% of the data feed, but not the sole source). In my view, the connected supply chain is very, very different from the integrated supply chain.

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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

Besides material and equipment, energy efficiency improvement of internal processes and networks comes on the agenda when realizing that the carbon footprint generated through ICT in 2002 will more than double by 2030, as it was estimated by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSi). percent of global emissions ( Fibre-Systems 2017 ).