Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. The first evolution of technologies were built by best-of-breed solution vendors. This new solution was favored by the Information Technology (IT) organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

My blog post is written for you to understand what needs to happen… While companies need to be good at forecasting, and redefining forecasting to be outside-in is needed: it is not sufficient. The traditional tools and approaches are not up to the task. Push for new Solutions. Let’s make 2015 a great year!

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. When I heard their story, I scratched my head.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in this blog, I am going to rely on the account of the songwriter, that the song is a childhood story about a dragon that lived in Honalee. In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My Historically, the design of the data model drove software market positioning. Early solutions were not scalable.).

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Unleashed

MARCH 2, 2021

Wearable healthcare works by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. They work by collecting a user’s wellbeing and fitness data, and creating a personalised database of the user’s health metrics. The company’s revenue has sat around US$1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital. As shown in Figure 3, the period of 2015-2020 will be about analytics. I feel strongly that it needs to happen. Supply has not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. However, let’s face facts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2015 Insight acquired E2open, and Infor acquired GT Nexus. Over the course of the last decade the remaining solutions struggled. A Look at History.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 It also is increasing the number of ‘carbon neutral’ brands it offers as consumers increasingly value this attribute when they purchase a product.”[6]. ”[6].

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 20, 2015

We believe they are worthy of discussion in 2015 as they are more pressing than ever as competition continues to heat up with current incumbents and the growing competition from start ups. The Cerasis “e-commerce” blog category has great articles on developing your strategy. Of their purchasing department?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we lead up to NRF 2015, this week Supply Chain Nation turns its focus to trends impacting digital retail. The solution to this dilemma is found back in the planning stage. The customer should not have to wait for you to find the purchase, for you to verify the price, for you to figure out what promotions were applied.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

For example, Infor purchased GT Nexus in 2015; OpenText purchased GXS in 2014, GHX purchased H-Card, LLC today; E2open purchased Terra Technology in May 2016 and Orchestro on Monday. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. The solutions evolved from different funding models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. I take independence seriously. This is my 310th post.

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o9 Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This blog outlines the challenges of ESG data management and how digitalization can help streamline the process. Within an organization, sustainability data is found in environmental, procurement, financial, product lifecycle, regulatory compliance, human resource management, ERP, and logistics systems (e.g., WMS and TMS).

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As people conduct more and more transactions electronically, whether it’s consumers on Amazon or organizational buyers on Ariba, Coupa, or other P2P solutions, the relational component of supply chains seems to be going down. (UPS and FedEx both saw package volumes soar by 17% or more during the Christmas season over last year).

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Additionally, under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership on the enterprise side, Microsoft has even more reach and influence now than in 2015, with products like Excel, PowerBI & Azure becoming the backbone of enterprise data management. So, it is only fitting for ThroughPut to answer that calling from Microsoft’s founder now.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In 2015, the top five companies in the industry brought in a collective total of $152 billion in revenue. The use of productivity tools and a focus on an integrated team leads to sharp reductions in total turnaround time. When you look at the numbers, he appears to be overwhelmingly on point.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In 2015, the top five companies in the industry brought in a collective total of $152 billion in revenue. The use of productivity tools and a focus on an integrated team leads to sharp reductions in total turnaround time. When you look at the numbers, he appears to be overwhelmingly on point.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This blog was started in 2010. Today, 270 posts and five years later, I am thankful for the opportunity to sit at my kitchen table and communicate to almost 20,000 supply chain professionals globally (directly through this blog and through connections on Linkedin). This is the goal of this blog post. I am giving thanks.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

Additionally, under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership on the enterprise side, Microsoft has even more reach and influence now than in 2015, with products like Excel, PowerBI & Azure becoming the backbone of enterprise data management. So, it is only fitting for ThroughPut to answer that calling from Microsoft’s founder now.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 22, 2016

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