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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last two years Gartner Group introduced the concept of bimodal supply chains. I strongly believe in supply chain segmentation and the need for each supply chain to have a well-defined, and often different, outcome. We will launch a call for industry action on our webinar on January 11, 2017.

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

The 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo was one such opportunity. About three hundred supply chain professionals from various pockets of the world representing manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers, and technology vendors took part in the summit.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

Gartner has identified five stages of supply chain planning maturity and they say that 70-80% of companies plan to increase their supply chain planning (SCP) technology spend over the next two years to climb to the next level. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g.,

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Gartner Releases a New S&OP Magic Quadrant

ToolsGroup

Therefore, users' requirements are more oriented toward enterprise-level S&OP, with strong supply chain modeling, financial impact analysis and tight integration back into the operational planning environment.”. Source: Gartner Research, 2017. Other high priority capabilities include: Support for global deployments.

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Clorox Successfully Implements a Program for Value Chain Segmentation

Supply Chain Shaman

Clorox was a Supply Chains to Admire Winner in 2016 and in the top-tier of performance within the peer group for 2017/2018.). In our research we find that over the course of the last decade (2006-2017), we find that each vertical industry has a well-defined pattern of performance. Designing Supply Chain Segmentation.