Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

by CJ Wehlage On the bus ride back to the McDowell Marriott after the 2016 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain event, I plugged my ear phones into my cell and listened to some Pearl Jam. So, the supply chain version of Last Kiss would go something like this…. “Oh Oh where, oh where, can my supply chain be?

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Why is supply chain risk management important? Compared to Q4 2014: Revenue decreased 6.8% A key priority for Chipotle moving forward has to be improving its supply chain visibility, which based on comments reported in the Wall Street Journal last week , appears to have some blind spots.

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Elementum

AUGUST 30, 2022

As the landscape of enterprise technology shifts again towards app consolidation, now might finally be the time for the first supply chain super app. So in 2005, Oracle bought both Siebel and PeopleSoft, and in 2012, SAP bought SuccessFactors — once again creating application consolidation for the enterprise.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A growing number of scenes in films and television programmes – and even entire films and TV series – are about logistics and supply chain management, and media productions are going ever deeper into those business roles. This opening scene presents the supply chain, in this case of a bullet, very effectively.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. It is a story of supply chain innovation. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. Let’s start by taking a look at history.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It ceased to exist in 2005 when it merged with 1Sync. Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supply chain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces. It has been designed by the parties in the healthcare supply chain over the past year, and is extremely promising. Transora had a short history.

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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. Is Steelwedge a Tragic Hero of Supply Chain Cloud Technology? The supply chain management software market had soured. My answer? I am not sure. It depends.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Retail was slow to adopt supply chain processes to drive new business models; and as a result, traditional retail redefinition of supply chain processes got caught in the omni-channel hype while Amazon worked its magic to become a market leader. A Closer Look at Consumer Value Chains and the Value of the EACH.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2016

percent annually between 2010 and 2014. trillion in 2014. While inventories had steadily grown since 2005 at 5-percent annually, growth of inventories in 2015 flattened out. Yet, actual investments into IT could easily exceed these predictions as newer technologies are developed and deployed throughout the supply chain.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

As the economy reopens post-COVID, there are still supply chain shortages. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. Forward Buying and Inflation. War on Terror. Bank crisis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

Seldom do I see a commercial leader transition to supply chain, and I wanted to gain his insights. Orbit Chart Comparing Syngenta and Monsanto Progress on the Effective Frontier – Balancing Inventory Turns and Operating Margin for the Period of 2005-2014. He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. Shane said.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. The only time it was higher was in December 2005, when it had briefly crossed $15. in the third quarter of 2014 and is expected to grow by 3.5%

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

However, with the various supply chain systems manufacturers use, such as ERP, WMS, and TMS, the systems must all provide options to integrate together with such e-commerce platforms like Magento, Shopify, and others in order to take hold in 2016. Between 2010 and 2014, the average robot sales increase was at 17% per year (CAGR).

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Thanksgiving is less than a week away and the retail supply chain continues to ramp up for the holidays. Here’s a quick roundup of some industry news to help you prepare for the busy holiday season.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

As Vice President Supply and Inventory Planning Europe and Asia, Jeroen van Weesep is helping to safeguard and sustain that transition in the supply chain. In June of this year, he was voted Supply Chain Professional 2014. Read the full article in Supply Chain Movement 15. By Caroline Linssen.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2015

Now, this week’s supply chain and logistics news, which was dominated by transportation-related items: Are Imports Moving to the East Coast? For related commentary, see my February 2014 post Enough Talk: Time to Fix Transportation Infrastructure Funding. House approves $8 billion highway funding extension (The Hill).

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Much of the sourcing behavior involved in standard defense industry practices is tied to establishing “price reasonableness” in accordance with FAR 15.403 (FAR, 2005). Enhancing supplier relationships also reflects a central theme of the most recent effort to improve federal procurement practices (Rung, 2014).

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AFFLINK

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2005, however, the shortage amounted to roughly 20,000 drivers across the country. Flash forward just a few years to 2014 and that number had skyrocketed to 38,000. The most immediate impact of the truck driver shortage (beyond the shortage itself) has to do with its effect on supply chains everywhere.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Applications in supply chain and retail are only now beginning to be explored. v] There are tremendous opportunities to understand behavior patterns and clues to anticipate shopper needs, understand personal preferences, predict purchase paths, forecast demand, estimate returns, anticipate supply disruptions and much more. [vi]

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 12, 2014

Also compounding the risk of economically damaging stoppages is the fact that while supply chain resilience has attracted much interest over recent years, port resilience has not garnered much attention. Deputy Director, MIT CTL, and Kai Trepte, Research Affiliate, MIT CTL, published by the Journal of Commerce , June, 2014.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 28, 2015

From JDA’s inception in 1985; to the first customer event in 2005; through all of the acquisitions; to 2014’s new identity – plan to deliver; to now. Rich presented a slide, shown below, that depicted the supply chain evolution of PepsiCo. Very powerful!

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Supply chain risks are reduced. Since 2005, U.S. As delivery speed is increasingly important, closer proximity to consumers, supply chain expediency, and convenience of doing business become priorities. from abroad (mostly between 2010 and 2014, per Moser). Transportation and freight costs are reduced.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this sequential “demand driven” paradigm a lot depends on the quality of the demand forecast and the safety cushions we build within the supply chain to guard against anticipated margins of error. It used to be that retailers and manufacturers could periodically forecast demand, plan what to sell, and execute to that plan.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! In addition, the BioPreferred database contains very few forest products or traditional textile fiber products, as these were only recently added to the biobased sector in the 2014 Farm Bill.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. We will feature over the next 7 business days each category’s top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2014.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. We are pleased to bring back in 2021 our fire-side chat column with key people in the supply chain industry. In 2014, I was appointed Global Supply Chain role with ECCO Shoes and relocated back to Singapore.

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FLEXE

APRIL 12, 2017

In 2005, department stores alone sold $60 billion in apparel; in 2015, it was half with nearly $28 billion shifting to online retailers like Amazon. To many, Nasty Gal’s demise (it went from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016) had everything to do with its distribution strategy and failure to retain customers.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Compliance with these regulations requires end-to-end visibility, accurate and timely data capture, custody audit trails and effective control of traders’ global supply chain. ► 2014. (13). Networked Supply Chains Require Better Visibility. In the EU, Excise fraud for alcohol amounts to €1.5B

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

.  While the exact statistics is not known, anecdotal evidence is heart-wrenching: over 800 Bangladeshi garment workers have died from factory fire since 2005; and over 1000 apparel factory workers have died after Rana Plaza collapsed in 2013.      References.       English'

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. For discount retailers like Burlington, the supply chain is often a competitive advantage — and thus a secret recipe for success.

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