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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Reflection. What Does Not Work. The reason?

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How is AI Revolutionizing Supply Chain Risk Management? 

Resilinc

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. To achieve this, we utilized historical purchase order data from customers and Resilinc’s 12+ years of supply chain data.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

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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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Market-Driven Processes. The Building Blocks.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

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 goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. I am not surprised.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Jill Button, CEO of ProcurePro!

Supply Chain Game Changer

While historically companies have performed this function internally it is increasingly recognized as being more strategic to have a well functioning Procurement capability, as opposed to just having a Purchasing department. The term Strategic Sourcing had yet to become reality and is only now gaining understanding. www.ProcurePro.ca.

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The Trends Shaping Supply Chain and Logistics: Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2017

Talking Logistics

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. Will this include drone deliveries? pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV. million to $23.8