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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the

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Supply Chain Management:SAP acquired Ariba, what does it mean.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Cloud & Big Data. When a colleague forwarded the news of SAP (finally) buying Ariba past midnight India time on Wednesday ( [link] ), my first response was roughly on the lines of "better late to the dance than allow Oracle to steal your partner". Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Finance & Accounting.

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Dissecting the Headwinds and Tailwinds of Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007. For the global multi-national, Powering global growth in China and India is tougher, and with less intellectual property risk, than driving a digital transformation in North America and Europe.