2004 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 30, 2025
Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. The Salesforce.com model is primarily a pipeline management tool suitable for discrete markets but not process manufacturers. Will this change the market?
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 28, 2021
In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. What do I mean? To illustrate, let me share a story.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. 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. Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 14, 2014
Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. “The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. 3) Risky Business?
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. My takeaway?
Supply Chain Opz
JULY 7, 2013
In 1983, Peter Kraljic explained how to formulate a commodity strategy based on 4 segments, its later known as Kraljic Matrix or Purchasing Portfolio Matrix. Multi-dimensional view of strategy took place in 1999 in the paper " Leagility: Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain " by Naylor et al.
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. The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics.
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