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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. Maximize the value of your purchase. What do I mean?

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

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. It’s Infor’s second largest acquisition.

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. Prior acquisitions include: Demand Management, (often termed Demand Solutions) supply chain planning for mid-market, 2004 for $9.5M MID Retail, 2014, assortment planning, price undisclosed. A Look Back .

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Why Learning Technologies will Fundamentally Transform Retail and Supply Chain

BlueYonder

v] There are tremendous opportunities to understand behavior patterns and clues to anticipate shopper needs, understand personal preferences, predict purchase paths, forecast demand, estimate returns, anticipate supply disruptions and much more. Learning will improve with the abundance of data. ii] https://www.coursera.org/course/ml.

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Navy Awards Two Shipbuilding Contracts for New Submarines

Operations and Supply Chain Management

WSJ – April 29, 2014 12:48 a.m. The latest deal covers the building of two submarines a year, with the block buy expanded to 10 ships from the eight ordered in the previous batch of boats which first entered service in 2004. billion each, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service. ET The U.S.

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Top E-Commerce Sites in Malaysia 2022

Vinculum

Malaysia is at its peak in terms of growth and increases in population to look into the purchasing of the customer significantly. It would be interesting if such purchasing is done through an e-commerce site and operated at a premium level. It has grown both in terms of online purchasing and the sales perspective for the long-term run.