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The Dance With AI

Supply Chain Shaman

The industry first started speaking of digital in 2012, but today, it is still an amorphous concept. (My My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) Narrow AI is enabling insights based on disparate data. My analogy is putting a new engine in an old jalopy.

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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. Organizational Alignment 2012. Focusing on transactions at the expense of understanding and harvesting insights from market data resulted in implementing the wrong set of controls.

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Supply Chain Management – A 2012 Priority

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ChainLink Research and SupplyChainBrain just released “ Business Priorities 2012 – Research and Results ” which takes a look at where companies will invest in the coming year. And yet, our respondents do expect business expansion and intend to invest to make it happen in 2012.”

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Eliminating Data Silos

Enterra Insights

Today, however, one is more likely to read about data silos in businesses than storage silos on farms. Business silos, and the data contained in them, are remnants of industrial age organizations. Sullivan asserts siloed data and information are among the most deleterious characteristics of industrial age enterprises. “It

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2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the World Nigh?

Supply Chain Network

But 2012 is an extra-special year; it carries heavy historical baggage chock full of dire predictions. Nostradamus painted a bleak picture of massive destruction and mayhem brought about by a comet in 2012. In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012.

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Data and Digitization in Manufacturing

Enterra Insights

They write, “Manufacturing matters to the United States because it provides high-wage jobs, commercial innovation (the nation’s largest source), a key to trade deficit reduction, and a disproportionately large contribution to environmental sustainability.”[1] We tend to focus our attention on what is new about the era of big data.

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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!

Supply Chain Shaman

To understand this point, I contrast the results of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners published in 2022 (last week) against their peer group from 2012 to 2021. In contrast, 19% have an operating margin less than a comparative company for 2012-2021. The red cells indicate that the company is underperforming against its peer group.