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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 technology market is responding.

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2015 Predictions: Emerging Markets

Enterra Insights

New middle class consumers in those markets will … Continued The post 2015 Predictions: Emerging Markets appeared first on Enterra Solutions. Bottom of the Pyramid Business Current Affairs Digital Path to Purchase Globalization Supply Chain Technology'

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

“We will see $300 a barrel — or roughly $250 in today’s dollars — because oil supply will be so short. That will be in 2015, after the peak of oil [supply].”. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 million bbl/d in 2015.” .

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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. SAP Supply Chain HANA is still a work in progress.

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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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The New JDA: Focused on the 3PL Industry (Takeaways from FOCUS 2015 Conference)

Talking Logistics

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. The value of IT is in how you use it.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 3-7, 2015)

Talking Logistics

XPO Logistics Announces Second Quarter 2015 Results. This week the big news is that Macy’s is expanding its same-day delivery service to nine additional markets (for a total of 17 markets) for products purchased online at macys.com, bloomingdales.com and on both brands’ mobile-enabled websites. Same-day delivery makes the news again.