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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

When I hear companies discussing the implementation of a customer segmentation strategy, I ask a series of questions: Who is your customer? What are you trying to accomplish through the execution of a customer segmentation strategy? In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

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.

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Here’s Why B2B eCommerce Will Be So Important in 2022 

Unleashed

Read more: Try the eCommerce inventory management software that unleashes your growth What is B2B eCommerce? A B2B eCommerce platform is software that facilitates transactions between businesses. Businesses can order stock online, and software is used to automate shipping, tracking and auditing of goods & services.

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Epitaph

Supply Chain Shaman

They knew little about the software market. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011. It is no more.

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Make 2016 the Year of the TMS

Talking Logistics

The Cloud has become the great equalizer in supply chain software thanks to the speed, simplicity and savings it delivers. Just a few years ago sophisticated logistics software was reserved for only the largest and wealthiest companies. The Cloud has taken the traditional software buying process and turned it on its ear.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.