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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results. The class discovers the current blackholes of the supply chain (direct procurement and contract manufacturing. The shifts over the last decade are profound: Is the answer a Supply Chain Center of Excellence?

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. The continued focus on functional metrics like Purchase Price Variance (PPV), manufacturing costs, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), and transportation costs throws the supply chain out of balance. Belief in efficient procurement.

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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. In a recent study, roughly 1/3 of respondents were familiar or very familiar with the concepts of the Graph Approach. I term this our data jail. The focus of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.)

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Supply Chain Executives are building “Centers of Excellence” – because they support business strategies!

NC State SCRC

The term “COE” is often a commonly heard term in supply managers’ vernacular, but it’s interesting to note that Centers of Excellence as an organizational entity have been around for more than fifty years – and evolved first in the form of what was called “shared services”.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Resist the temptation to place deeper analytics on top of existing data models. Out of desperation, they turned to the use of descriptive analytics. I am currently working on a couple of case studies for this blog on how business leaders used digital twin modeling during the pandemic. Baseline demand reflects market potential.)

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Is Procurement Drowning in Data?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement drowning in data article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Meanwhile, 60% of procurement teams have no tools or rely primarily on improvised systems for Supplier Management. Is Procurement drowning in data? Subscribe Here!

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

I know that your primary focus is procurement. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) This is despite the deployment of ERP, descriptive analytics, APS, SRM, and teams of data scientists working on their data lakes.