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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

An enlightened leadership team wanted to be sure that the organization knew how to make money through bi-directional orchestration of the bill of materials. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Dependency on Excel. Due to the shortfalls in the evolution of Advanced Planning, 68% of business users use Excel spreadsheets as the primary mechanism for planning. Excel–while widely used for planning–is not equal to the challenge of modeling complex supply chains. Don’t rush to buy. The result?

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How to Set Corporate Goals for Supply Chain ESG

SupplyShift

For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place. Measure KPIs by a point in time —we will increase the number of ESG-compliant suppliers by 40% by 2030. How will you improve supplier buy-in? Struggling to choose?

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How to Set Corporate Goals for Supply Chain ESG

SupplyShift

For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place. Measure KPIs by a point in time —we will increase the number of ESG-compliant suppliers by 40% by 2030. Secure Buy-In. How will you improve supplier buy-in? Source: sasb.org.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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AI in eCommerce: Benefits, Use Cases, and Risks

Unleashed

Shoppers can now enjoy more personalised buying journeys, as merchants make it faster and easier to find the products that they’re most likely to purchase. It enables businesses to be more targeted with their websites by intelligently recommending the products they’d most likely be interested in buying.