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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. Talent Demand. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. The company was spun out of the parent company American Software.

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What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? Interestingly there are many views on how to define Supply Chain. Source: [link] ).

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Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords

Arkieva

2016, “Defining Analytics: A conceptual Framework” ORMS Today pp. The credit card company wants to identify purchase transactions that are fraudulent well before the customer receives their monthly bill. One pattern is a succession of short purchases in a location away from home. The coffee purchase was rejected.

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How to Manage for Supply Chain Success During Major Weather Events

TMC

Our team included logistics, demand management, category management, and distribution from Delhaize, as well as West Coast Distributing and TMC’s Managed TMS® service. Reviewed the purchase orders associated with every load that was due to be picked up or delivered within the storm impact zone.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

A car is necessary for the suburbs, so I plopped 5K on the used car lot desk and rode off in a 2016 Lincoln Mercury. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. Let me explain. Use Channel Data.