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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. As a result, when I was a Gartner analyst and technology providers would provoke me to write a Magic Quadrant on visibility solutions, I would laugh. In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. The market shift is towards analytics, but this new market is confusing. The most successful have used best-of-breed solutions. (We Instead, I see a behavior that I call bait and switch.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. In implementing planning, most of the focus in purchasing technology in the sales cycle is on optimization. ” The next call was with a technology provider. Models Matter.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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and J-P Rodrigue (2004)). Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. This organization was renamed the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) in 1985 and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in 2004.

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Are You Active in the Digital Transformation Drinking Game?

Supply Chain Shaman

At SAP Insider, the digital transformation message was never defined, but the use cases focused on Internet of Things delivered through a Leonardo architecture and the strategic advantage of S4/Hana for real-time analytics. No one makes better software than SAP when they are clear on the business problem.