2004 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Transportation 
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 expect the company to move more aggressively into the transportation planning market.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. 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. Reflection. I thought it would be easy.
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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 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.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 11, 2016
One of the barriers to greater progress in driving supply chain excellence is the current state of user satisfaction with current technologies. We are also more advanced on transportation and warehouse planning than supply chain planning. 2004 data references the work that I completed while an analyst at AMR Research.)
Supply Chain Movement
MAY 15, 2013
In the USA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched the Supply Chain 2020 project back in 2004. In the Netherlands, the government initiative ‘Top Team Logistics’ has issued advice aimed at helping the Dutch logistics sector to regain its position of excellence by 2020.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
Higher Costs and Lower Profits: While recession may incur low demand, operational costs such as energy and transportation can remain high or fluctuate unpredictably. An excellent example of optimizing inventory is Zara. Evaluate your transportation strategydiversifying modes (e.g.,
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