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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Likewise, data scientists are long on the understanding of software approaches but short on understanding the business. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. They are just too risky. Talent Demand.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. In 2004, I worked with the client to help define specifications and shortlist potential solutions. The volatile meat market changes daily.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. KION acquired Dematic and Egemin Automation in 2016, forming KION Supply Chain Solutions that operates under the Dematic brand. billion in 2019. Well, I am saying it.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

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). Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). The solution was too black box. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained. Spring 2020-February 2021. The Company went through many reorganizations.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. If “the forecast is always wrong,” is improving forecast accuracy even the solution to our demand planning woes? Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30). Cardwell, D.