Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

As an analyst for nearly two decades, I am constantly amazed watching companies throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. In 2004, I worked with the client to help define specifications and shortlist potential solutions.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Hyper-collaboration is based on the fundamental belief that it is innovation ecosystems, not individual companies, which will deliver the novel solutions the world is waiting for. The consortium model alone saw a nine-fold increase between 2005 and 2014 versus the prior decade, with 334 new consortia formed, versus just 34 from 1995 to 2004.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This includes senior management, government linked and academic positions in a variety of international companies and institutions based in Asia, the US, Europe and Australia. Raymon has over twenty five years experience in the Logistics industry as an end user and service provider.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 11, 2022

After seeding the idea of the first freight marketplace, Drew has helped Transfix mature from an industry upstart into Forbes’ “Next Billion Dollar company. He officially joined the company as Director of Business Development in May 2004 but had been working with his parents at PDI over the summer since he was 12. The result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I define collaboration as the ability to establish long-term win/win value propositions between and among companies. Yet, only 20% of companies actively manage supplier development programs to get cash to suppliers in need. In times of growth, when companies are funding inventory builds, cash is needed. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The year was 2004. At the time, the supply chain teams at Companies like Kraft were more mature in their understanding of supply chain planning than I find today. Companies love engines with a series of over-hyped project implementations. Too few companies stop to answer the questions: Is the solution giving a good plan?

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After seeding the idea of the first freight marketplace, Drew has helped Transfix mature from an industry upstart into Forbes’ “Next Billion Dollar company. He officially joined the company as Director of Business Development in May 2004 but had been working with his parents at PDI over the summer since he was 12. The result?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2020

Utilizing fragmented systems limits logistics companies from fully leveraging the data in their systems. Prior to joining Ramco, Naval held leadership positions at a variety of companies including Safexpress, Reliance Logistics, Reliance Retail, Unipart Logistics and Hexaware Technologies. About Naval Sabharwal. Noteworthy Questions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 12, 2020

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. Each company managed marketing programs that were not tethered to market-drivers. Most companies do not know the difference.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

” Ryan reports, “Inflation is now so hot that staples companies feel they have no option but to pass it on.” ” Cognitive technology solutions, like the Enterra Global Insights and Decision Superiority System , are capable of taking into account myriad variables that can influence a company’s bottom line.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The word of the day is visibility, yet this is the nut–that companies implementing many projects, — cannot seem to crack. In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1).

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SVT Robotics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I had been in the industry since 2004, back when most people did not associate warehouses and robotics. The biggest hurdle was convincing senior supply chain executives at large companies that robots in warehouses were good. For over a decade, I was an evangelist for using sophisticated automation in warehouses.

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RFgen

JUNE 10, 2015

Data mining is making it easier for companies to increase their bottom line – indicating a need for more streamlined data collection methods. Companies looking to improve their bottom lines are turning to data mining and analysis in order to maximize efficiency of stocking practices and thus positively impact profits in the long run.

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RFgen

JUNE 10, 2015

Data mining is making it easier for companies to increase their bottom line – indicating a need for more streamlined data collection methods. Companies looking to improve their bottom lines are turning to data mining and analysis in order to maximize efficiency of stocking practices and thus positively impact profits in the long run.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

The traditional processes, rooted in historical relationships with large system integrators and technologies will crumble, as companies push for answers on value. Gradually companies realize that the supply chain is a capability, not a function. In parallel, SAP launched technology platforms: NetWeaver in 2004 followed by HANA 2.0

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2019

There are many good reasons to add items to product portfolios, but companies are better at adding than eliminating items. The company was unable to design and implement a process to reduce item complexity. Stuck, the company struggled with customer service levels and high inventory write-offs. Personalization. The result?

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Although many companies are taking a leadership position, accelerating the successful adoption and implementation of a diversity program greatly benefits from regulatory support and agency partnerships. The US has been the blueprint for supplier diversity, but there are other countries and regions gaining momentum and making great strides.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 6, 2016

I was talking to a postal company the other day that didn’t have the answer to either question. Postal companies are seeing a three percent drop in volume every year, racking up huge losses. The postal company I met with was no exception. I believe this is a business transformation that will prepare companies for the future.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2017

When I started doing business in China back in 2004, a general factory worker used to earn around RMB2,600 a month. Having said that, I see way too few companies encouraging their suppliers to visit their own headquarters. Today, that amount has increased to RMB3,600. Again, China hasn’t moved!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Palantir Technology is a famous American software company established in 2004 by Peter Theil (Co-founder of PayPal). It is a big data analytics company that works with big clients in the United States. The famous software projects of this company are Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, and Palantir Metropolis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies. We loaded 493 financial metrics from balance sheets and income statements for each company into the data lake for the period of 2004-2016 using YCharts data. The analysis was industry-specific.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2022

It enables companies to track and trace their products which are equipped with sensor devices.”[2]. Manufacturing and transportation and logistics companies have been pioneers of today’s IoRT revolution, leading the way to connect and automate industry operations.” in 2004 to $0.38 ”[2]. Supply chain IoT tools.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

The first report was published when I working at AMR Research (now Gartner) in 2004. Being the original author, I laugh when technology companies attempt to explain the Gartner S&OP maturity model to me in briefings.). Only one in two companies execute the plan developed in the S&OP process. The Research. . Governance.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Instead of having software installed behind a company’s own firewall or simply hosted for the company on a dedicated instance managed by the vendor or some other third party, multi-tenant solutions have companies share the application and underlying infrastructure (e.g., hardware, operating systems, storage, etc.).

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Ancak 2004’te di?er The company was established in 2001. From 2001 until the end of 2004 the production was done in a traditional mass-production manner for one of the world’s biggest underwear brands from the USA. During those years, the company was selected as the “Best Supplier of the World”. Narkonteks’in geçmi?ini

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Multichannel Merchant

APRIL 7, 2022

Pressure is coming from all sides for companies to adopt more sustainable shipping practices. Likewise, 66% of consumers say they’re more likely to support a company if they provide proof of their socially and environmentally responsible behavior. Work Toward a Sustainable Shipping Certification.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

This article will show you the development of fashion industry and how one company manages to bring the operations into the next level. When QR strategy has become saturated, companies have to find the ways to differentiate themselves, some adopt ERP system, others adopt Just-in-Time manufacturing concept. Fashion SCM 1.0

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

Because the products have similar features and can be substituted by-products from other companies easily. In virtually every company, you have to deal with other departments. If a company doesn't run in sync, this might hurt the service you provide to your external customers. Reference - Lam, S. Shankar, V., Erramilli, M.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Seeking the next sequel in technology adoption, I want to write how the confluence of new technologies changed companies’ abilities to improve decisions. Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. Companies average ten ERP and five Advanced Planning Solutions.

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 26, 2022

General Atlantic, Its BeyondNetZero Venture, and Generation Investment Management Join KKR as Investors in :o9, Valuing the Company at $2.7 Demand and supply volatility and complexity has been growing and the pandemic has only accelerated the challenges companies face in meeting customer service and financial goals. DALLAS, Jan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. Process gaps are larger in companies greater than 5B$ in annual revenues. The market is over-hyped and often companies are not clear in their selection criteria. Most companies forget context and data enrichment.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

Introduction The global business landscape has witnessed an increasingly fierce competition, pushing companies to seek effective strategies to maintain and enhance their competitiveness. The company has implemented sophisticated barcode scanning and point-of-sale systems to collect real-time data from its stores.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The company was spun out of the parent company American Software. each, the company collected some $29 million in the IPO–funds it intended to invest in research and development, as well as on sales and marketing efforts. The American Software company in 2016 invested 9.9% Selling shares at $14.50

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2018

just accelerated to its best year since 2004 and Amazon could be eyeing Target as its next major retail acquisition, according to one influential tech analyst. Roughly twenty years ago online grocers were part of the great internet dot-com bubble with a host of companies promising to deliver groceries to your home affordably and conveniently.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I estimate that the company had annual sales of 30M$. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. More positive than most. ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable. I questioned the size of the market, and if companies needed a standalone S&OP solution.

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HICX Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I think we are now finally coming to the realization that we are at a time where there is value being driven through organizations, through Procurement and that a little bit more funding needs to be provided to those teams in order to effectively lead the company into a successful future,” he says.

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