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E2open Acquires Steelwedge. Impact on Market?

Supply Chain Shaman

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 asked him over and over, “Is the market ready for a solution for JUST Sales and Operations Planning?” The supply chain management software market had soured.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my role as an industry analyst, I have been lucky to attend many great conferences and hear wonderful speakers. One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. Reflections.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process. She states that.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

He once told participants at an Economist conference, “When I die and they’re going to interview me outside of heaven to decide whether…to let me in. But correlation does not reveal the one thing that matters most in innovation — the causality behind why I might purchase a particular solution.