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Self-congratulations notes abounded this week as vendor-after-vendor shared their rankings on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SupplyChain Planning. I believe that the Gartner Magic Quadrant is a barrier to progress in supplychain planning, and that vendors that rally in support have a false sense of superiority.
“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.” .
Driving decarbonization with technology In 2023, the SAP CPO Think Tank community has been closely examining how companies can accelerate supplychain decarbonization. Decarbonization – in other words, the effort to reduce CO 2 emissions by transitioning away from fossil fuels – is a crucial tool in combatting climate change.
Belcorp’s Maturity in SupplyChain Design. When companies implement enterprise software solutions, they often label that implementation as being part of their company’s digital transformation. Using this software effectively is about more than the functionality.
Suppliers of steel fabrication and metal working equipment and technology are looking forward to a significant rise in demand from the region’s resurgent construction sector, one of the key demand drivers for the fabrication industry. He writes articles about the industry on a frequent basis. Manufacturing manufacturing tips'
Supplychains are messy. Blockchain in SupplyChain Can Help. WHITE PAPER] The Top SupplyChain Trends that Will Impact SupplyChain Management in 2018. The inefficiencies that plague supplychains have seemingly been around forever. Blockchain in supplychain changes that.
For the past five years, the team at SupplyChain Insights identified SupplyChains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the SupplyChains to Admire Award.
In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supplychain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supplychain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.
Today, supplychain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supplychain discussions take new importance. While the supplychaintechnology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supplychain career is new. Reflection.
Industries dependent on these metals, including defense , renewable energy , electronics, and manufacturing, may experience supplychain disruptions, including delays, price increases, and supply bottlenecks, due to China’s leading role in their production. defense and technology. It is not clear whether U.S.
states, obvious disruptions to supplychains and supplychain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. In 2015, the Port of Savannah moved 8.2% The human links of the supplychain were stressed.
For the past five years, the team at SupplyChain Insights identified SupplyChains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the SupplyChains to Admire Award.
Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supplychain. At the SupplyChain insights Global Summit , Nick shared his story on driving demand-based improvements. Understanding the Lubricant SupplyChain.
The Need For SupplyChain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ? Recent years have placed supplychains into the spotlight and onto many board agendas. In a world of almost continuous disruptions and intense competition high performance supplychains have become the decisive factor.
SupplyChain Matters features our latest full edition of This Week in SupplyChain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supplychaintechnology or industry services providers. WiseTech Announces $2.1
It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supplychain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New SupplyChain Operating System?
However, if they take a closer look, they will find that there are significant benefits to supplier diversity – not only for suppliers and their supplychains, but also for their business. With the growth of minority-owned businesses, however, minority purchasing power alone is projected to surpass $2 trillion by the end of 2015.
by Sarah Harkins Imagine that three natural disasters hit your global supplychain within three years. For Keysight Technologies, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario. Between 2015 and 2016, earthquakes in Japan and explosions at a container storage station in China affected parts of the company’s supplychain.
Lizet Tymon, the senior supplychain management director at Jabil. Lizet Tymon, the senior supplychain management director at Jabil, has an interesting story to tell about how she advanced from being one of hundreds of managers at Jabil to being a senior director at this Fortune 500 company. Jabil is a big company.
Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. However, to capture these benefits requires the right people, process and technology capabilities to extract the insights within the data.
As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, SupplyChain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . Top 10 SupplyChain Articles from 2015.
As an analyst in the supplychain 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 supplychain innovation. History of Terra Technology.
The global supplychain industry has by default, a large environmental impact, through its carbon footprint. We are committed to preparing the supplychains of the future. In addition, CEVA Logistics was also appointed by General Motors (GM) to manage its entire ventilator production supplychain in support of the U.S.
My last year there was as Global Chief Information Officer—I was responsible for enabling the operations of the 50,000-student organization via digital technology. Sustainable operations refers to the orchestration of value: capture, retention, and creation through manufacturing products and their associated supplychain management.
Over the last two decades the company successfully leveraged global scale to define supplychain leadership. With 12,000 supplychain employees operating in 80 countries with 2400 storage facilities, supplychain excellence and innovation are the foundation of corporate performance. BASF creates chemistry.
Supplychain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supplychain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supplychain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supplychain laggard.
We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So So Far" series today highlighting supplychain blog posts. SupplyChain is just one of our five main categories we are covering all this week, which consist of: Logistics, Manufacturing, SupplyChain, Freight, and Transportation. We hope you enjoy!
In a study conducted by Accenture in 2015 of chemical companies, results showed that 94 percent expect to boost their investment in digital capabilities in the next three years to embrace a competitive advantage. SupplyChain Operating Networks offer a level of sophistication missing in EDI and typical B2B networks.
This is my 440th blog post and the tenth anniversary SupplyChain Shaman. It is for this reason, that I use COV analysis to type logical supplychain flows. Companies do not have one supplychain, they have many. Most companies have a high volume and predictable supplychain (COV of less than.5),
Here, I postulate that the supplychain dragon is data. Supplychain leaders are drowning in data and low in insights. Today, technology providers are selling analytics. The focus is on growth, but supplychains are not fit for purpose. In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My
This week, I was introduced by phone to a marketing leader new to supplychain planning. I listened in amazement when she said, “My marketing plan is based on the fact that supplychain planning is an old technology nearing the end of its lifecycle.” Supplychain planning is evolving.
Last January, I shared 5 New Year’s Resolutions for supplychain and logistics executives to improve as leaders. As I wrote last year: According to leadership expert Ken Blanchard, “when you stop learning, you stop leading,” and this is especially true in supplychain management.
I think defining the future of SupplyChaintechnology means that we, as supplychain leaders, need to take a hard left. Today’s supplychains use closed and proprietary technologies. I believe we need to move to Open Source tech. What do I mean? Let me explain. The reason?
Friday, July 10, 2015. Now, for this week’s supplychain and logistics news that caught my attention: JDA Unleashes Powerful New Capabilities to Enable the Seamless SupplyChain. Flextronics Unveils Flex Pulse™ — A Software-Based, Real Time, Comprehensive Mobile View Into SupplyChain Events.
Looking for broader news or supplychain social media influencers? Freight Rates News that rates for freight and logistics trends – October 2015. But you need to go to the source and assess trend analyses since each index began, especially comparing now with 2008. This is our personal take on logistics news trends.
Nonetheless, my takeaways below from the recent GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference provides some insight about the company, it’s success to date, and where it’s heading (assuming Infor doesn’t make any significant changes). Adrian Gonzalez (@talkinlogistics) June 9, 2015. Bridges2015 — Adrian Gonzalez (@talkinlogistics) June 10, 2015.
There was a lot of supplychain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it. Transplace Launches SupplyChain Consulting Practice. Transplace Launches SupplyChain Consulting Practice. LEGACY SupplyChain Services Launches Grader Tool and eBook to Evaluate SupplyChain Performance.
I attend and speak at many supplychain and logistics conferences throughout the year, but among my favorites are those that bring a relatively small group of executives together to discuss timely and important industry topics. Source: Adelante SCM. Source: Adelante SCM. Trends in Logistics Labor Market.
Having spent much of this week on the road, I am still in catch-up mode with emails and phone calls, so let’s go straight to the supplychain and logistics news that caught my attention: Elemica Introduces New Sourcing Optimization Solution. Con-way Freight Announces Fall 2015 General Rate Increase. Washington Post).
When it comes to supplychain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supplychain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise.
To drive global scale, companies need to design the supplychain to buy globally and execute locally. The design of the supplychain is fundamental to making this happen. In our interview of the SupplyChains to Admire Winners, we found a unique approach at Carter’s. SupplyChain Index.
Many companies talk about SupplyChain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supplychain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supplychain excellence to fitness. He felt that supplychain excellence was analogous. 2015SupplyChains to Admire.
Nonetheless, the direction of travel of European governments is clear: companies need to do more to identify their exposure to unethical practices, human rights abuses, and significant adverse environmental issues , across their value chain. This is surprising due to the EUs outspokenness on its dedication to the Paris Agreement set in 2015.
We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supplychain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.
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