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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders). They are also struggling with internal politics. Good at email?

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Hau L Lee, Triple-A Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review, October 2004. Inputs, transformation processes, and outputs involve the acquisition and consumption of resources – money, labour, materials, equipment, buildings, land, administration and management. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. was one the first to develop dedicated S&OP technology solutions. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. The DCRA Inc.

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