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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. Over the course of the last decade, ERP spending was a thrust of the 1.7% In my view, the connected supply chain is very, very different from the integrated supply chain. Some History. This was in the heyday of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies.

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What Makes Amazon the Leading Cloud Service? (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Of course, there are other players in this space too, but all of them are many country miles behind AWS. While AWS was launched in 2002, Microsoft made an entry into the cloud market only in 2008, six long years later. Netflix, Reddit, and Pinterest all use AWS services, as do other giants of the digital world, like Dropbox and VMWare.

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Amazon Takes On the Fashion Supply Chain

Elementum

It has been selling apparel since 2002, and has slowly been making further in-roads to the fashion industry. Given the fact that the company has built itself overtime and it targets the right segment of the market -- it is fair to say that company is on the course to become the largest fashion retailer in the US.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

” As shown in Table 1, operating margin has declined 16% over the course of the decade. I dusted off a 2002 presentation from P&G to share with the audience. Today, managing a medical device supply chain is tougher. It is much more complex than it was a decade ago. Many are enamored with the “good old days.”

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™! An Interview with Michael Massetti, VP at Gartner!

Supply Chain Game Changer

By January during 8 th grade, several of my classmates and I had finished the self-paced algebra course. The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing. How has the Supply Chain changed over the course of your career? It was fun!

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

I was at three clients’ sites over the course of the last two weeks. When I was interviewing Keith Harrison, prior manager of the Procter & Gamble supply chain global team, he commented that the cost of distribution outstripped the cost of manufacturing in 2002 for P&G. ” At least, that’s what was promised.

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Autonomous Supply Chain: Desirable Vision or Silly Daydream?

Enterra Insights

Machines are now making predictions on trading stocks, customer purchases, traffic flows, and crime — much as we saw in the 2002 movie ‘Minority Report’ ”[1] When today’s technological wonders are looked at holistically, it was only a matter of time before someone imagined a fully automated supply chain. .”