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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

(LLamasoft acquired the LogicTools assets from IBM in the spring of 2015.) As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. LLamasoft Is Aggressively Aggregating Network Design Software Assets.

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

2] As a result, experts have, for years, encouraged businesses to transform into digital enterprises and employ digital supply chains. After all, supply chains or value chains are characterized by connectivity. Digitally optimizing only internal processes ignores important pieces of the value chain.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The world of supply chain is active on my iPhone. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supply chain applications.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supply chain innovation. History of Terra Technology.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning? The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos.

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E2open Acquires Zyme: A Bridge Too Far?

Supply Chain Shaman

For readers of this blog that do not know Zyme, the company focuses on the management of channel data in the high-tech industry. The company is a CRM solution. The Zyme solution improves revenue management, warranty and rebate processes. The original platform technologies were Ariba and i2 Technologies.