The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

But the COVID-19 crisis, has required rapid operational solutions to unforeseen roadblocks. Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed. Data acquisition and filtering and scenario analysis are time consuming practices in supply chain.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 230

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software 230

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

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.

Supply Chain Design Software 150

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Network Design Software Optimization Software 150

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. Spring 2020-February 2021. The Company went through many reorganizations.

Optimal Sourcing 217

Optimal Sourcing Analytics Software Procurement Analytics Supply Chain Planning Software 217

Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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.” 1] Emily Farra, “ Influencers Are the Retailers of the 2020s ,” Vogue, 19 October 2020. [2]

Analytics Software 243

Analytics Software S&OP Purchasing Skills Procurement Solutions 243

Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. She commented that the error seemed to be in the way that the software was implemented, and not in the base capability of the software. A methodology to pick the best fit method.

Inventory Reduction 61

Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Material Savings Vendor Strategies 61

Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Anybody who reads a lot about business management and innovation is familiar with Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor and entrepreneur, who died on 23 January 2020. But correlation does not reveal the one thing that matters most in innovation — the causality behind why I might purchase a particular solution.

Innovation 100

Innovation S&OP Procurement Analytics Procurement Solutions 100