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

Supply Chain Shaman

The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model. Forty interviews and two quantitative studies helped me build the model in my mind. Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I

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Digital Twins in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

The Apollo 13 mission in the 1960s is an early use case of using twins to model the state of the damaged spacecraft and bring the astronaut crew safely back to Earth.”[3] Honaman explains that the digital representation is a model and requires data. This leads to the third element, connectivity.” 3) Connectivity.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. The answer is to increase modeling, evaluate sourcing strategies, and build the right push/pull decoupling points. Due to the lack of design of work processes, the output from the technology is sub-optimal. An optimization engine needs a clear objective function.).

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps).

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

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.” Inventory is the culmination of many business decisions. Tracking Progress.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

” The answer lies in the need to redefine work to improve the demand planner’s ability to model. My question was, ” Would the world of Python, R, and NoSQL offer for an improved modeling environment with a digital twin deployment. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The AWS business unit has reportedly added Anthropic large language model technology to its Cloud hosting offerings. Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. No financial details were disclosed in the announcement.