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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. Current Familiarity with Analytic Concepts (Fall 2022 Snapshot) Preamble Supply chain leaders love their rows and columns. I term this our data jail. The focus of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.)

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

There is no magic ball on design: the organization’s reporting structures vary by culture and size. As shown in Figure 1, the reporting relationships vary. Supply Chain Reporting Structures. Organizations come in many shapes and sizes. Did the plans reflect all of the constraints? What do after-action reviews reveal?

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5 Dysfunctions of Typical S&OP Systems and How to Overcome Them

AIMMS

image source: [link]. Many of our clients have developed Apps in AIMMS to support their S&OP process. We did some research to find out why they preferred to use AIMMS over best of breed packages. A modeling and analytics environment like AIMMS allows companies to overcome these limitations.

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5 Dysfunctions of Typical S&OP Systems and How to Overcome Them

AIMMS

image source: [link]. Many of our clients have developed Apps in AIMMS to support their S&OP process. We did some research to find out why they preferred to use AIMMS over best of breed packages. A modeling and analytics environment like AIMMS allows companies to overcome these limitations.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? My interest is in direct material spend.

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Costly mismatch between supply and demand? Take our quiz for chemical companies and find ways to improve

AIMMS

AIMMS and ORTEC have developed a methodology to assess the maturity of the S&OP process. You’ll get immediate feedback and can opt-in to receive a report to see where you stand compared to the market. In such cases, it’s hard to align the team around a common source of truth. They had no centralized purchasing process.

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Costly mismatch between supply and demand? Take our quiz for chemical companies and find ways to improve

AIMMS

AIMMS and ORTEC have developed a methodology to assess the maturity of the S&OP process. You’ll get immediate feedback and can opt-in to receive a report to see where you stand compared to the market. In such cases, it’s hard to align the team around a common source of truth. They had no centralized purchasing process.

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