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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. Examples include allocation, available-to-Promise, and transportation routing. Innovation from best-of-breed technologies drives this change. Bear markets drive heightened interest in supply chain management.

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How to Reduce Costs and Invest in Better Technology at the Same Time

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This is why many companies invest in innovation before and during the toughest times to help them quickly cut costs while creating new labor efficiency and productivity.

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Top Mobile Banking Trends to Watch!

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Digital banking innovations are an indicator of global Fintech trends. For example, if there is a free basic tariff, the Bunq application offers new users 30 days to use the functions of a paid subscription. In the USA, the experience of using mobile banking is more extensive — some banks offered it to customers back in 2007.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). … a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. Embrace innovation. They are free to innovate.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I The industry considers the company a leader, but I know the dark side that internally, the IT processes squash innovation. Why do we have 32 days more inventory by company in 2020 than in 2007? I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5.

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

With annual revenues of 16-44$M, in the period of 1997-2007, the Company returned to its parent to become a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software in 2007. In general, solution innovation lags the industry. I like simple, well-positioned innovative niche solutions. Push hard on the Logility team to innovate.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, they are innovating in new ways on mobile devices. It started with simple money transfers in 2007 and now includes a range of services. Mobility and the direct connection to the shopper is a wonderful opportunity for the supply chain innovator to create new business models for the supply chain OUTSIDE-IN.

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