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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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Navigating The End-to-End Journey

Supply Chain Shaman

The company that plays to win does not strive to have the best manufacturing costs, or the best procurement practices; instead, the team focuses on winning together cross-functionally on a commonly held portfolio of metrics. Change happens the fastest when companies are aggressive on the adoption of new forms of analytics.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) evolved to improve the speed of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes. The use of these new forms of analytics requires investment in new forms of analytics that do not come from the traditional ERP vendors. Let us know if you need any help. I would love to hear from you! __.

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. The use of the analytics in the planning solutions enables faster answers to tough problems. Get Started.