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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

Short of the initial launch of B2B exchanges in 2002, no brand owner drove the adoption of network technologies. The term network is used frequently, but without definition. In a project that I am currently working on with Georgia Tech, I had a bet that the research assistants would not find a clear definition in the literature.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. Start With Definitions. To begin any discussion in this market, the buyer should start with definitions. Definitions. The portal–with all of its limitations–is analogous to the flip phone: functionally inadequate.

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Logility to Acquire Network Optimization Provider Starboard Solutions

Logility

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starboard Solutions Corp., ATLANTA (June 28, 2022) – Logility, Inc., a Traverse City, Michigan based innovator of supply chain network design software.

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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. I believed that planning needed its own system of record and that this definition was distinctly different from a transactional system of record. Transactional systems are vertical by definition. Some History. Horizontal Processes.

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What is New in MMOG/LE Version 6?

QAD

The MMOG/LE is a required document for automotive supply chain best practices approaching 57,000 site assessments globally (and growing) for Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. MMOG/LE is used by automotive customers to select and evaluate production and parts, service and warehousing processes.

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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (mandating that businesses keep records of the prior handler and the next handler) and the Food Safety and Modernization Act, food is still very hard to trace. It’s a simple definition of something that continues to perplex supply chain professionals in many different industries. Despite laws, such as the U.S.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, each time someone uses the word, you should ask for a definition. The lack of a common definition of the use of ‘research’ by industry analysts, bloggers, and consortia muddies the market. I also find that the definition of research by each analyst firm and consortia is different.