Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. However, when Gartner bought AMR Research, and I left in the transition(because I don’t believe in the Gartner methodology), I launched a new methodology named the Supply Chains to Admire. The reason?

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. The demand planner is a critical role in any supply chain—these people can commit a company to millions of dollars in inventory or capacity. Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone?

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. The demand planner is a critical role in any supply chain—these people can commit a company to millions of dollars in inventory or capacity. Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

The average Supply Chain management professional measures their Supply Chain by reviewing cost reduction. Is cost reduction all that there is in measuring Supply Chain performance? 3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. Isn’t time important?

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

You need to have as much data as possible from all areas of your supply chain. This is crucial for obtaining high quality demand signals and supply possibilities. Collaboration between all links in your supply chain is essential to achieving solid forecast accuracy. Quintiq (@Quintiq) September 19, 2013.

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Supply Chain Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We founded Supply Chain Insights on February 9th, 2012. Supply Chain Insights is a true bootstrap startup. We also built a database of twenty years of supply chain financial ratios that we mine daily for companies to understand where they are on the Supply Chain Effective Frontier against their peer group.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

We are pleased to continue our 2021 fire-side chat series with key people in the supply chain industry, and it is with particular pleasure to catch up with Stuart Whiting, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Logistics & Planning at Schneider Electric, based in Singapore but with a global functional responsibility.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 22, 2016

and a new survey reveals outsourcing in supply chain is expected to grow. Is your supply chain a cyber threat? This and much more, in your supply chain briefing from Arkieva. Supply Chain News. New Survey Reveals Levels of Outsourcing in Supply Chain Expected to Grow by Over 40%.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supply chain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces. Instead, they are standalone marketplace offerings solving one of four business problems: supply chain multi-tier visibility, inter-enterprise systems of record, benchmark analytics, and delivering collaborative workflows.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business recently found that 50% of growth in CPGs from 2013 to 2018 came from products marketed with sustainability. ESG accountability is closely linked to the concept of “responsible supply chains.” There is momentum building around this concept as well. The Future of ESG .

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This is the third birthday of the Supply Chain Shaman. When I went to Altimeter group, my friends Charlene Li and Jeremiah Owyang said that I should be like a “shaman” and help supply chain leaders embrace new technologies. I quickly did a search for Supply Chain Shaman…and voila, the new blog was born.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It's no surprise then that the company became a signatory of t he Chemical Footprint Project (CFP), a project of Clean Production Action, which provides a tool for benchmarking companies as they select safer alternatives and reduce their use of chemicals of high concern. What’s in it for Walmart?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

The most significant for the supply chain market are assets from Baan, Formation Systems, Fygir, Intentia, Lawson, MAPICS, Mercia, and SSA Global. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. Figuratively speaking, supply chain leaders feel that they have been ERP’d to death.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business recently found that 50% of growth in CPGs from 2013 to 2018 came from products marketed with sustainability. ESG accountability is closely linked to the concept of “responsible supply chains.” There is momentum building around this concept as well.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 8, 2016

The Key Supply Chain Challenge of Cost Reduction. Supply chain costs often represent a considerable percentage of the sales price of a good or service. If net profit on sales is 5%, for example, a reduction in supply chain costs from 9% to 4% (or from 12% to 7%) will double net profits.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 17, 2012

At Supply Chain Insights, we are loyal Amazon shoppers. They deliver pantry supplies to our small office in Baltimore <without charging us shipping> a couple of times a week. We also feel that they are a wonderful case study of how supply chains can make a difference in driving value. We love Amazon.

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Tompkins Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The webcast will define control towers and explore how control tower solutions are a response to the overwhelming complexity faced by today’s supply chain managers. The discussion will be led by Zelenak and Alain Poirier, supply chain technology expert and Vice President of Retail Business Development at Tompkins International.

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Tompkins Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Chris Ferrell, Director Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. RALEIGH, NC — Shippers and carriers this year can expect to see many new trends related to transportation, as well as a continuation of several critical challenges from 2013. About Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. CONTACT: Barbara Adams.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Now compare September 2015, the right-hand map above and below, with the same month in 2014 and 2013: Tight capacity led to much "hotter" map views in 2013 and 2014 , although the seasonal trend is fairly consistent in the Northwest for all three years.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

While these benefits are real and significant, there is an even bigger opportunity and value proposition that many software vendors and users still don’t get, especially when it comes to cloud solutions focused on supply chain, logistics, and other cross-enterprise business processes.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2014

I’ve been using the word convergence to describe many of the trends occurring in the supply chain and logistics field today, and convergence was certainly evident at Roadnet’s perform 2014 User Conference a few weeks ago. First, there’s the convergence of companies.

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EcoVadis

JULY 3, 2014

This is the holy grail of supply chain sustainability management. EcoVadis sees 3 progressive stages of Supply chain sustainability management: stage 1 – Risk Management : protecting your brand, preventing disruptions and potential litigations. Supply chain regulations around the world are also getting stricter.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Chainalytics Introduces FMIQ Monthly Benchmarking Index. With more than 30 cargo ships anchored offshore, countless supply chains scrambling, and the prospect of a $2 billion per day hit on the U.S. Back in July 2013, the company acquired 3PD (now XPO Last Mile) for about $365 million.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

However, that removes focus from the manufacturing side of the industry and doesn’t hold the industry accountable for its use of fossil fuels across global supply chains. To drive improvement with your suppliers Create supplier benchmarking reports and share them back with suppliers.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

However, that removes focus from the manufacturing side of the industry and doesn’t hold the industry accountable for its use of fossil fuels across global supply chains. Build authentic product positioning centered around supply chain sustainability. By 2035, Ford expects to power all of its plants on renewable energy.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

Will the cloud enable industry-level supply chain collaboration? Cloud computing is gaining a lot of ground in the supply chain domain, with applications ranging from new analytics to dynamic routing and powerful track and trace features. percent in 2013 to total $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

December 2013. November 2013. October 2013. UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog. April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. Wall Street Journal. UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. UCLA Anderson Speaker Series. UCLA Anderson Homepage. UCLA Anderson Forecast. UCLA Anderson Faculty Podcasts.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2014

According to the American Trucking Association, this is happening in an industry that already faced an average annual driver turnover rate of 99% in 2013, as well as hiring and training costs that range from $3,500 to $5,000 per driver, depending on experience. We don’t shop rates. We look for value and long-term partnerships.

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CormSquare

JANUARY 24, 2017

From 2014 to uptill 2016, 45% of the respondents reported a significant amount of procurement risk, up from its very last year when it was 33% in year 2013. In 2013, only 16% of CPOs were fully involved in risk management. That remarkably went up to 22% in 2014 and then 25% in 2015 and has been significantly increasing either.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Matters.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 2, 2019

However, an important lesson for innovators in this space is to understand that biobased products must compete on the basis of cost AND performance, and must be held to the same benchmarks that petroleum-based products are, or they will not survive in the brutal marketplace. And that depends to some extent on oil prices.

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Despite the growing awareness and commitment to sustainability in the supply chain, our 2019 Sustainable Procurement Barometer uncovered common challenges that limit company success and business value, including: Tracking supplier performance (cited as an issue for 39 percent of procurement organizations). Program costs (38 percent).

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FLEXE

MARCH 21, 2017

For years, the supply chain has been the same: weighed down by outdated processes and technologies. In supply chain, traditional methods for managing inventory fluctuations with short-term solutions hasn’t been simple. FLEXE has been providing easy-to-use, short-term warehousing solutions since 2013.

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Tompkins Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Tompkins International transforms supply chains for value creation. For more than 35 years, Tompkins has provided end-to-end solutions on a global scale, helping clients align business and supply chain strategies through operations planning, design and implementation. SHELTON, CT, and RALEIGH, NC — 3GTMS , Inc.,

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Tompkins Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

RALEIGH, NC, November 6, 2013 — When is a fulfillment center like a traditional distribution center in this age of e-commerce? Tompkins International transforms supply chains to help create value for all organizations. Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, USA, Tompkins has offices throughout North America and in Europe and Asia.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Forming an industry-wide initiative on the EcoVadis platform represents the most mature phase of this collaborative effort: A group of companies in the same business sector, whether at a European or International scale, comes together and shares tools for assessing and improving ethical, social and environmental practices within their supply chains.

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