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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software. ” LLamasoft: Recycled Software Assets Offering Hope? ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. Bio-engineering? Customization? What are the constraints?

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

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.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

The Economist notes, “The book, published in 1997, popularized the idea of disruptive innovation. The premise of Christensen’s groundbreaking book was that many companies’ hubris causes them to ignore disruptive innovations that can eventually lead to their downfall. They add, “This is a book about progress.