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

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. The traditional EDI approach inserts a day latency to open and read documents. Unstructured data types like geospatial maps, weather patterns, digital images, warranty information, call-center logs, quality reports and contract document information are not used today.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

He looked at the current situation and quickly started documenting the information and planning flows dysfunctions. For example, if you can add product to your catalog you can sell without having to inventory you end up with a nearly infinite profit that boosts overall inventory turns metrics.

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22 HR & management professionals share the most effective ways for managers to retain their best warehouse workers

6 River Systems

We did this by tying metrics to their workload and included those metrics in our weekly all-hands meetings. They are just basic metrics like total shipments per week, shipments per day and item receipts per day, and we compare those numbers vs. previous periods.