2004 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Industrial Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
The impact of the elongation of payables on receivables varies by industry, but on average across the industries increased eighteen days when comparing the past five years to the pre-recession years. It is worse in some industries. Days of Receivables by Industry. I shook my head in disgust at the waste in the process.
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AFFLINK
MARCH 6, 2017
In the foodservice industry, there are few better examples of great procurement management than McDonald's. Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries.
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. This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. Indirect procurement has little to do with direct material management.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Over the last two decades Steelwedge raised significant capital in three rounds: 4M$ in 2004, 16M$ in 2011 and 22.5M$ in 2015. The move into process industries went badly and scalability issues plagued many of the deployments. The focus was on automating procurement. He was bullish and I shrugged my shoulders. I was not sure.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 16, 2015
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. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 2, 2023
The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Bear with me. Be careful.
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