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Untangling The Tangled Web We Weave

Supply Chain Shaman

The year was 2004. Was it that Kraft was not clear in its definition of supply chain excellence (which was true) or not clear on how to best use the system (which was also true)? The software never expanded in scope to manage multi-tier inventories. What defines supply chain excellence? The reason? The problem is simple.

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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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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

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. These solutions are proprietary and closed.

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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 $2.8 Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$.

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7 Best Customer Service Books CEOs Read

Supply Chain Opz

For example, - In some industries such as steel, chemicals, and other heavy industries, products are highly commoditized. In the B2B (business-to-business) environment such as enterprise software, the customer acquisition cost is extremely high. The reason is that the acquisition process is very long. Reference - Lam, S.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

The company is a B2B Supply Chain Operating Network supporting the automotive and aerospace industries. In our research, discrete industries–aerospace, automotive, hi-tech, and semiconductor– rate themselves as performing better, being more proactive, and having greater alignment. State of Industries. Good at email?

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. Across the industries, this is the case. I think that this industry is poised for a tipping point. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.