2004 Procurement Procurement Solutions 
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
Advanced routing and scheduling tools reduce mileage and improve on-time delivery. Consider alternative financial arrangements, such as risk-sharing agreements or advance purchasing contracts. Instead, focus on strategic efficiency improvements. Evaluate your transportation strategydiversifying modes (e.g.,
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 27, 2025
The former AMR Research brilliantly came up with the top 25 idea in 2004. As you noted, however, this time the placement was for “IoT Platforms,” a category of software tools from a good number of vendors to manage connectivity, data communications and more with IoT-enabled devices in the field. What do you say?
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Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 7, 2017
No one makes better software than SAP when they are clear on the business problem. The 1610 SAP S/4 HANA release includes advancements in response management (allocation, ATP and order management) and procurement tracking and collaboration of purchase order workflows. Instead, the solutions need to learn and drive new insights.
DELMIA Quintiq
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
The Atlanta-based company demonstrated that companies focusing “heavily on supplier diversity” generated a 133% greater return on procurement investments than the typical business. billion, with non-diversity companies accounting for nearly 80% of that purchasing power. Their spending power in the year 2000 was over $6.5
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. I asked him over and over, “Is the market ready for a solution for JUST Sales and Operations Planning?” The supply chain management software market had soured.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 12, 2019
As a result, when I was a Gartner analyst and technology providers would provoke me to write a Magic Quadrant on visibility solutions, I would laugh. In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These solutions are proprietary and closed.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 17, 2013
The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven. Join us for the launch of the Supply Chain Index.).
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