Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. Popular Beliefs on Supply Chain Excellence Do Not Align With Results. .

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. « Mapping Your Way To Faster Shopping | Main | Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying Period Point to Significant Change and Fulfillment Challenges » Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Business Process Outsourcing.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. They have embraced the conveniences of in-home buying and cyber-based price and feature comparisons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Shahzaib Khan discusses Resilinc’s journey toward AI-driven supply chain excellence From its early inception in the 60s’ to its increasingly available public access, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. This generates massive amounts of unstructured data which must be classified and sent to customers promptly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

Figure 1 came from the 2012 study. (We E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. Prior to the buy-out, E2open’s stock price was battered with a decline in the company’s shares by 74% over the last year. 3) Higher User Satisfaction.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. Celect uses comparisons between products derived from transactional, inventory, and online browse data to model choice.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Based on literature review by Behdani et al 2012 called " How to Handle Disruptions in Supply Chains – An Integrated Framework and a Review of Literature ", academic articles in this area is centered around 2 themes, namely, Risk Management (before disaster strikes) and Disruption Management (after disaster strikes). Literature Review.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 25, 2012

2012 is the 30 th anniversary of supply chain management, but we still do not know what defines supply chain excellence. To help, we are busy collecting twenty years of industry financial data. Over the summer, through the use of summer interns, we will be mining the data. Return the power to the user.

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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. ” The Key’s To Walmart’s Supply Chain Management Excellence over the Year. Walmart uses its mammoth purchasing power to shape suppliers’ behavior which also drives down costs, Gartner said.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012. Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. What can we learn? 3) Risky Business?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 4, 2015

We are lucky to also feature the great supply chain of Staples, who recently purchased Office Depot. Supply Chain Management Academic Program Gets Hands on Experience from Staples’ Supply Chain Excellence. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and associate professor of supply chain. We hope you enjoy!

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. « Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying Period Point to Significant Change and Fulfillment Challenges | Main | Information Driven Innovation in Supply Chain » The Learning from the 2012 Holiday Buying Season: Balanced Investments in Online and Physical Supply Chain Fulfillment Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

In 2012 I built on these concepts to define the market-driven value network. The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Use of Channel Data. The Building Blocks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. In 2012, this turned into an IT problem: the tablets were being dropped from the tops of tractors with no warranty available. Next, the IT department worked on the issues of infrastructure, risk, data security, cloud storage, and data sharing. The takeaways?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. The movement of data in ERP technologies is from the enterprise out. By definition, ERP infrastructure is inside-out.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

In 2012, the U.S. Keeping track of product batch numbers, lot numbers, and serial numbers is an excellent precursory initiative that mobile barcoding solutions excel at performing. For example, when Sunland-produced peanut butter was recalled in 2012, demand for peanut butter temporarily decreased. ConAgra Foods, Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There were many twists and turns with management teams, but E2open’s initial public offering in July 2012 was 4,687,500 shares of its common stock, including 3,750,000 shares from the company and 937,500 shares from the selling stockholders, at a price to the public of $15 per share. There is a market credibility issue.

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Arena Solutions

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For example, in 2012, J.P. Morgan was hit with a $6 billion trading loss due to an Excel copy-and-paste error. With Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, a local copy of a spreadsheet can be made, and new data can be added creating silos of information.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For example, we wrote recently about how Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods Market represents more than a new stream of brick and mortar business, but the possibility of improving its last mile delivery – the so-called “Holy Grail of Logistics,” and therefore gaining a further leg-up over its eCommerce competitors in the grocery category.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2012

We are busy combing twenty-five years of financial balance sheet data and combining it with quantitative research studies to try to help the world understand the true value of supply chain excellence. The community will feature job postings, a WIKI and benchmark data. We want to be the team that you will turn to first.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Cloud & Big Data. AssistEdge – Customer Service Experience. | Main | Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices » The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Finance & Accounting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

Ten years ago, Amazon was an online book retailer, yet today a family can buy a wide variety of items, including groceries with next day delivery. To understand the pervasive nature of this change, consider Amazon’s 2012 announcement: “We now have more than 15 million items in Amazon Prime, this is up 15x since we launched in 2005.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. In a make to stock environment, if I have a 6 month cumulative lead time, my forecast is being used to buy inventory today for something I’m going to sell in 6 months.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a question that frustrates businesses if they only have data that is anecdotal and subjective, and lack the quantitative hard data that really tells them what’s going on. Good Data is Key to Success with SCOR. Sometimes it’s Good to Look Inward Too. The most recent updates were made in October 2020.

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Cognira

MARCH 26, 2024

A Retail Media Network is an advertising infrastructure that allows brands/vendors to purchase space on various online channels (e.g., In order for a retailer to build their own RMN, they have to have the budget, resources, and data. Combining their first-party data would create one of the largest in-store media channels globally.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Cloud & Big Data. « Retailer Multi-Channel Operations Capabilities Get an Early Test in the 2011 Holiday Buying Season | Main | Fraud vs Customer Centricity - III » Layaway and Buy Now Pay Later Payment Options! Layaway: • The customer selects the product that she wants to buy. Customer Service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The supply chain is safely tucked behind the firewall, operating on data that is late and out of sync with the market. With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Cloud & Big Data. « Collaborative Platform for Enterprise of Future | Main | Key Asset Management trends in Oil & Gas Industry » Importance of Proactive Master Data Maintenance in SAP SCM Support. These 3 master data elements contributed to almost 50-60% of planning issues. Business Process Outsourcing.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. million in FY 2012 to $203.8 Eliminating paper from their delivery operations was a common objective for these companies, along with improving productivity, customer service, and data quality. The limiting factor is still getting timely and accurate data. million to $23.8

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

But as I wrote back in April 2013 , “If you look closely, Amazon’s real advantage comes from its logistics assets — the 89 distribution centers it [had at the time], including 20 opened [in 2012], with more scheduled to open in the months ahead. Big Data and Analytics for Oil and Gas Transportation. Robinson Acquires Freightquote.

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Repl Group

JULY 1, 2019

They invested in: systems that link real-time customer information to point of sale so staff have customers’ details to hand providing excellent service every time. Back in 2012, its Regent Street store integrated a range of cutting edge technology including: the world’s tallest retail screens. UK Fashion Giants – Burberry.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

rhiannon Davies, joined in 2012 to implement the new supply chain, bring about global compliance and leverage potential efficiencies to drive the strongest conditions and service to customers. “In there are three options: to set to work with excel, to develop one’s own solution or to purchase an off-the-shelf tool.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

I have done this report twice before–once in 2012 and again in 2013. Since the last report, Kinaxis successfully launched an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange, E2open launched an IPO and then went private with a buy out by Insights, IBS and Steelwedge sought new rounds of capital, and WAM Systems and Acorn Systems have new owners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

VTech drove significant improvement in operating margin through the recession of 2007-2009 and then drove improvement in both inventory margin and operating margin for the period of 2010-2012 with some regression in the period of 2013-2015. Point of sale data needed to drive all processes. The Use of Point of Sale Data.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

NAFTA Trade in December 2013 than in December 2012. The early success of 3Gtms shows that there is still plenty of opportunity available for TMS vendors that can provide shippers with a cost effective solution that is easy to learn, easy to use, easy to deploy, and easy to update (see 5 Reasons Why Excel is Champ of Supply Chain Apps ).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. We are familiar with the concept of buying online books, electronic goods, gift articles, apparels. But do we purchase grocery online (excluding the perishables) in India. All questions asked do we really need to purchase grocery online when we can get it in a nearby supermarket. Customer Service.

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