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. This is despite the strengths of the recent purchase of Optimity. I first experienced the implementation of OMP and SAP at Eastman Chemical in 2004.

Supply Chain Planning Software 221

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Shipping networks may experience delays and disruptions, potentially exacerbated by cost-cutting measures within the logistics sector. Technology plays a crucial role herereal-time inventory tracking across warehouses, shipping routes, and even supplier locations enhances decision-making and reduces costly inefficiencies.

Supply Chain Planning Software 69

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

The former AMR Research brilliantly came up with the top 25 idea in 2004. Mike Ledyard Vested Program Faculty, Vested Way / University ofTennessee Posted on: Aug, 04 2017 Excellent article. Now the retail customer may spend more to get it to the end purchaser which is beyond my scope (and may folks ability to truly model I suspect).

Gartner 41

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Supply chain shortages abound. Reflection.

Supply Chain Planning Software 390

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

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. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. Each company operates within its own plane, improving its own potential. 3) Risky Business?

Manufacturing Procurement 345

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The second presentation given in 2004, shared the results. In 2001, we were in trouble, but in 2004, we had made a lot of progress. It took us three years to right the ship. The retailer’s plan was never normalized against inventory and as a result it did not reflect buying behavior. The answer was simple.

Supply Chain Planning Software 240

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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. 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.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 220

Prescriptive Analytics Software Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Analytics Analytics Software 220