Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

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. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supply chain innovation. History of Terra Technology.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling company, provides global deep water drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry through the use of high-specification drillships.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

Bear markets drive heightened interest in supply chain management. The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. These supply chain groups are more global and diverse. The evolution of leaders is challenging the mental models of the supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

What are areas that are relevant to supply chains where new paradigms are possible? Covid-19 has demonstrated the power of integrated, intelligent and interactive supply chain networks. Companies can create digital supply chains and digital supply chain services, and, hence, advantage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The world of supply chain is active on my iPhone. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supply chain applications.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the last decade, the organization grew larger and more political in the journey from regional to global supply chain structures. I work with a group that has a sub-team focused on cost, one on customer service, and one on inventory, but lack alignment on a standard definition of supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The most unloved employees in the back office are supply chain planners. As supply chain leaders, I would encourage you to send each of them some love for Valentine’s Day. Each year, when we complete our annual talent survey, we note greater and greater dissatisfaction within the role of supply chain planners.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

The technology market is rife with unsubstantiated claims and myths. Each year, I publish a report analyzing the technologies in the S&OP space. I sent the report to technology vendors listed in the appendix with a deadline for feedback on factual accuracy for 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday. New technology is evolving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In today’s global economy, businesses face increasing pressure to ensure transparency and accountability in their supply chains. In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to supply chain traceability, including its importance, benefits, challenges, and how it works.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

According to IHS Markit, March US purchasing manager’s index (PMI) was the second strongest since data collection began in May 2007. However, as manufacturing comes roaring back, it is being met with supply chain issues such as delivery delays and higher costs. In 2019, it re-acquired HD Supply, a company it sold in 2007.

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Oracle SCM

JULY 12, 2017

The years from 2007 through 2009 were notable for their economic volatility, reflected not only in the global economic recession but also the instability of customer demand and rapid movement in raw material, fuel, and commodity prices. Explore Modern End-to-End Supply Chain for Real Business Growth. FREE EBOOK.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2018

We are attempting to separate hype from reality; and to test new technologies to try to redefine B2B processes. Frustration abounds Traditional thinking on linear optimization and enterprise automation is not equal to the challenge. Information technology (IT) teams focus is on long and drawn-out ERP deployments. The reason?

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Supply Chain Insights

MARCH 30, 2015

Recently, as I prepared to market our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I was introduced to Professor Pankaj Ghemawat’s concepts, and guess what? The world isn’t flat; and globalization and trade is changing. How management teams should invest in developing programs to make their leadership teams think globally.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. Despite the deployment of what is considered to be the most mature technologies by the organization, the most important processes–allocation and Available to Promise (ATP)–are largely manual. One of the most advanced teams was a division of DuPont. (At Measure it.

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QAD

MAY 26, 2021

Founded in 1979, QAD began as a small startup solution working with local companies to address a large gap in complete, integrated business software for manufacturing companies. As manufacturing businesses took their brands globally, we adapted quickly to keep up and our software has adapted as well. Global Trade Management.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 28, 2013

Segmenting Supply Chain using Portfolio Matrix (2x2 Matrix). Supply Chain Segmentation is the planning process that links a corporate strategy to the executions. This article will show you how to use a simple 2x2 matrix system to segment supply chain with examples across various functions.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere , a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Financial institutions form adaptive banking software solutions to ensure an economy in the post-world. The US financial market is a leader in terms of the variety of technological convenience for the client. Digital banking innovations are an indicator of global Fintech trends.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 25, 2022

As a three-day weekend nears for many, various things vie for attention in a person’s mind, including many topics directly or indirectly related to the supply chain. A lot is going on in supply chain. Diesel Supply Improves for East Coast. Supply Chain Must Upgrade Old Methods to Appeal to Younger Employees.

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EazyStock

MARCH 14, 2023

As the global world economy has continued to recover completely from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, and with a subsequent war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation, many stock-holding companies are having a hard time. However, this time can also be seen as an opportunity for organizational change.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere, a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 4, 2013

Global multinational companies have a dilemma. Supply chain talent is primarily coming from North America and Europe, but these are the continents that represent the lowest levels of growth for supply chain 2020 (see figure 1). At over 1,000 delegates, the conference is a large supply chain event.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

After a week of high-highs and low-lows within the global logistics industry, we’ve gathered the nine stories you need to know. According to FreightWaves, the FreightTech 100 2023 is “[…] a selection of the most innovative companies in the freight technology space.”

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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NFI Industries

JUNE 22, 2015

The very first Apple iPhone™ was released eight years ago on June 29, 2007 1. Supply Chain. Distribution, Global , Supply Chain, Transportation. Since then, Apple has worked tirelessly to keep the latest. 06/23/2015. Distribution. Transportation.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Supply chain management is not an easy subject. Background Supply chain management is a relatively new discipline. Access public data from Data.gov Supply chain management is part of complex economic activities. You may feel that not all necessary information is available at your finger tips.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2019

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 18, 2018

Warehouses are 143% bigger thanks to e-commerce,” states this article in the publication Supply Chain Dive. In fact, warehouses have changed so much that some experts don’t even use the term “warehouse” as they explain how e-commerce has changed the industrial supply industry. “The feet, Supply Chain Dive reported.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

7 Laws of Successful Supply Chain Alliances. In order to increase the efficiency of the whole supply chain, modern businesses relies on the stronger and closer relationship with their trading partners. In this article, the basic supply chain alliances concept together with the critical success factors will be presented.

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NFI Industries

JUNE 23, 2015

The very first Apple iPhone™ was released eight years ago on June 29, 2007 1. Since then, Apple has worked tirelessly to keep the latest technology in the palm of their customers’ hands which included nine hardware updates and numerous software updates. READ MORE.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

Now, on to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Thoma Bravo Announces Acquisition of Elemica. Tradeshift’s $75 Million Series D Round Attracts New and Existing Investors to Accelerate Company’s Global Expansion and Platform Development. It’s why I coach. It’s why I love baseball.

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AFFLINK

JULY 26, 2018

Short of using tireless automated cars and trucks , the only way for companies to get their products to consumers faster is to keep them physically closer. Briefly, the effort to bring more goods to more consumers faster has resulted in a sea change in the global urban and industrial landscape – warehouses.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. million employees without a focus on good supply chain management. ” The Key’s To Walmart’s Supply Chain Management Excellence over the Year. ” Walmart states early on.

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