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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

Lab work testing follows vital sign analysis. When I asked for an analysis of the customer service data with a root cause analysis, it was not available. Six months later based on the work of four hard-working employees, we were able to get the analysis to start to roll-up our sleeves. It is a familiar ritual. Step Three.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last month, I have been working on the 2019 Supply Chains to Admire analysis. The source data for the analysis comes from Ycharts.). The long-term view of eight years in the analysis allows the tracking of year-over-year patterns through orbit charts. The Supply Chains to Admire analysis is six-years-old.

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Intelligent IBP – Unshackle the Planners!

Supply Chain Trend

Often, you’re lucky to get the IBP deck out in time, without having any quality time to make simulations or prepare quality decisions. And McKinsey estimates a 24% rise in demand for social and emotional skills by 2030. A well-structured decision process that reduces decision bias, matters more than analysis— by a factor of six.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

We release our annual research on the 2019 Supply Chains to Admire analysis on June 20 th at 1:00 PM. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. At the event, technologists and business leaders work shoulder-to-shoulder to Imagine Supply Chain 2030. What is different? The format is unique.

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Master the Challenge of Cold Chain with Blue Yonder (Part 2)

BlueYonder

My previous blog article focused on the size of the cold-chain market — $1 trillion by 2030 — and the huge opportunity it presents for the world’s logistics service providers (LSPs). Manual analysis and spreadsheets just aren’t capable of managing all the complexities of modern cold-chain logistics,” Ann Marie pointed out.

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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Direct connection of financial budget data to supply chain planning often results in “infeasible plans” Anaplan has missed the market opportunity to build robust modeling based on constraints, buffer analysis, and material balances in a strong collaborative analytics technology. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Am I right?

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The use of unstructured text mining, and sentiment analysis, to understand and listen to customer responses to products and services in near real-time. Advanced companies are building cross-functional teams to use unstructured data to analyze warranty, quality and service failures. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030.