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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

The use of network design technologies along with simulation through a center of excellence can greatly improve the gap between finance and the supply chain organization. For reference, 52% of companies have a network design group, and 40% of these companies think that they do it well. This is less than 5%.

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of trip to Atlanta to connect to Peru, we began a discussion. The market shift was dramatic, and if we had made a series of small cuts in staff or direction, we would have had the same fate as i2 Technologies or Manugistics. They remained independent despite the death spiral of Manugistics and i2 Technology.