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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps). Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). The solution was too black box. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007.

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Marketing: Opportunities and Dangers of Social Media

Enterra Insights

According to a 2007 paper by Duncan Watts, ‘large scale changes in public opinion are not driven by highly influential people who influence everyone else, but rather by easily influenced people, influencing other easily influenced people.” The post Marketing: Opportunities and Dangers of Social Media first appeared on Enterra Solutions.