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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. The lessons learned during pandemic and the economic recession of 2007 are quickly forgotten when economies heat-up. They have forgotten the lessons of the 2007 recession and the pandemic.

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What is Purchase Price Variance (PPV) and How to Calculate it?

SCMDOJO

Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred.

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Citations of Excellence Awards 2014

SCM Research

Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. 2007.07.001. Lessons from Nike.

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Have You Given Your Planner Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

It took six months for supply chain executives to sense the market downturn of 2007 and make adjustments to their supply chain. 3) Buy Technologies that Supply Chain Planners Will Love. Over 65% of supply chain planning happens in Excel spreadsheets. Focus on buying planners systems based on usability and modeling capabilities.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. However, there are no sure bets.

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Preparing to Run Supply Chains at the End of the Second Global Economy

Supply Chain Shaman

In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. If you, like most, are running your supply chain based on ERP and Excel spreadsheet data, you are not prepared. – Technology Evolution Outpaced Adoption. No one knows. What to do?

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. Let’s learn from the past to unlearn to rethink supply chain excellence.