Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. Or a unified data model across source, make, and deliver for planning? The greatest value in the network is making effective trade-offs between source, make, and deliver. Stay tuned.

Optimal Sourcing 337

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Companies having the teams from source, make, and deliver reporting to a common leader tend to be the most balanced, with the smallest gaps between operations and commercial teams. Using in-memory modeling and learning engines improves decision-making while streamlining communication to improve procurement and logistics decisions.

Supply Chain Planning Software 288

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) This cross-functional group (sales, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution) is an operational team to manage the day-to-day issues and exceptions in the supply chain. The best tools for modeling are AIMMS, LLamasoft, and OM Partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Could we use Open Source Hadoop to process transactions across all networks with powerful in-memory processing? Another source of disappointment is the lack of capabilities in the IBP modeling engines. Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. Could it help in track and trace?

Supply Chain Design Software 150

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