2004 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Warehousing 
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 Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.
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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
Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic.
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 Opz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
In early 2004, they noticed that customer service was the biggest problem. In order to excel in this operations, they try to find the people with positive attitude. 4) See each contact as business opportunity : even though people buy products online, they often call service staffs. They have a warehouse very close to 3PL''s hub.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
Technology plays a crucial role herereal-time inventory tracking across warehouses, shipping routes, and even supplier locations enhances decision-making and reduces costly inefficiencies. An excellent example of optimizing inventory is Zara. Instead, focus on strategic efficiency improvements.
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