Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supply chain design solution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Let me start by saying that t he process is not a panacea to solve all supply chain ills. Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. There is a clear definition of the role of the supply chain in the delivery of value. One Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

The article introduced the concept of self-service planning and challenged companies to rethink the concepts of supply chain planning. Supply Chain Insights Training, 2024 The Opportunity Based on my research, I believe there is an opportunity to reduce the number of planning roles by 80-85%. Guess what?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, I hosted the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. The Supply Chain Executives were not interested in the project, and as a result, did not see the value.”

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SCMDOJO

MAY 6, 2022

Modern enterprises rely on supply chain software to track several activities, including manufacturing and distribution of goods. However, most of these systems were created before web technologies existed or were in their infancy. However, Finance is now Fintech and Marketing is now Digital Marketing.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 18, 2020

“Big Data” is everywhere. The value of quality data has never been higher, and the power to process that data is more readily available than ever. To better understand the impact of big data analytics on procurement, we turned to industry veteran Walt Charles, CPO at Allergan, who sees big data as a major disruptor.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

The basic frame of supply chain planning–functional taxonomies for optimization on a relational database–must be redesigned before supply chain leaders can reap the benefit of deep learning, neural networks, and evolving forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, data query is fast.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data. We have this today in most supply chain planning solutions.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a volatile world characterized by rapidly changing technology, caution is often justified. Many analysts believe, however, that time for caution has passed when it comes to digital supply chain transformation. Nevertheless, “wait and see” seems to be the position of many supply chain professionals.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Supply chain processes are not immune to this trend. EY analysts Edmund Wong and Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), ask, “Are you running an analog supply chain for a digital economy?”[1] They explain, “The global supply chain is a creation from the past, ill-suited to today’s fast-changing world.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Behind the scenes, BT Supply Chain has been the backbone of the company’s operations for 30 years, making sure customers get the best experience. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

With 65% of supply chain professionals members of the Millenials and Gen X generations, inflation is new. The members of the supply chain organization have never managed through a period of growth, inflation, and unprecedented supply variability. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This guide provides you with all the tools you need to make significant positive changes in a few simple steps. Don’t forget to check out our best practices , tools , and a list of helpful supply chain resources on the website! Optimizing inventory can also be achieved by leveraging technology and data analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The supply chain is knotted. Yesterday, @DamarqueViews asked me a question on twitter: “What do you think are the greatest barriers in the adoption of social technology in the supply chain?” I find the evolution of social technologies, and the promise of social, exciting for the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic. As shown in Figure 1, based on data collected in the period of September-October 2019 from over 600 business leaders, at the start of the year, the likelihood of a pandemic was low risk. As supply chain professionals, we have never managed the supply chain through a pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). The results confound me. Background.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Keeping up with and making sense of all this data is far beyond the capabilities of traditional analytic methods. As a result, cognitive technologies (aka artificial intelligence systems) have come into their own. The most important of these technologies is machine learning (ML). Tech journalist Christian Rigg agrees with Wang.

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Vinculum

APRIL 18, 2022

You can safely say that the supply chain now is a principal driver of your business growth. When supply chains undergo sweeping changes, how jobs are handled changes fundamentally, businesses today do not see supply chains like they used to. Supply chains are now thought of while buying goods and services.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 13, 2023

To be in a position to capitalize on these shifts as they unfold — or avoid obsolescence — CPG and retailing companies need to make the right technology investments, starting now.”[3] ”[5] • Increase in private label purchasing. ” • Improved supply chain performance. ” • Changing consumer behavior.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

At their request I wrote on the digital supply chain. Digital supply chain is such a buzzword. The digital supply chain is about SO much more than gadgets.” Yet, within the supply chain, everyone waits for data and insights. Supply chains do not move in the cadence of the market.

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Procurement Academy

AUGUST 31, 2021

Flexible supply chain thinking may be a solution. This proactive thinking will permeate our lives, organizations, employees, customers, suppliers, technology and much more. Below are ideas of proactive ways to practice flexible supply chain thinking: Do you think you can predict customers’ behavior?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Here are ten things to keep in mind in terms of the role that forecasting can have on supply chains: While not a cure all, forecasting does matter.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Behind the scenes, BT Supply Chain has been the backbone of the company’s operations for 30 years, making sure customers get the best experience. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. So, here is my invented future for 2015, starting with my most audacious prediction: Google will acquire a logistics service provider (3PL) and/or a logistics software vendor. The Google TMS?

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Cooper notes, “Today’s customer, internal or external, expects the same kind of experience in a professional environment that they have with technology in their personal lives.” ” 2) Employees need modern tools to be effective. But technology is now available that can redesign this process.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. Question 1: What drives a Successful Implementation of Supply Chain Planning? The answer is no.

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6 River Systems

AUGUST 19, 2020

Whether you are new in the retail space or an established player, what you cannot build with a click of a button is a strong brand or an efficient supply chain. A white paper published by DHL found that inefficient handling of supply chains causes high costs, wasted resources, and reduced agility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

Two years at Gartner Group , six years at AMR Research (now Gartner), two years at Altimeter Group and three years as the founder of Supply Chain Insights. Over this period, I have watched the acceptance of cloud-based supply chain solutions evolve. Users of Software as a Service solutions have higher satisfaction rates.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“We live in a world where supply chains, not companies, compete for market dominance. But companies often have diverging incentives and interests from their supply chain partners, so when they independently strive to optimize their individual objectives, the expected result can be compromised. ”. What Is Value?

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

Consultants and technology leaders are rebranding under a “digital umbrella” without clear definition. For the purposes of clarity, in this article, the term digital supply chain is the transformation of the atoms and electrons within the supply chain to unleash new levels of value. The reason?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 9, 2021

“By many accounts, 2020 was sure to be ‘the year’ for digital transformation,” writes, Peter Fretty ( @pfretty ), IndustryWeek technology editor. “Pilots were fruitful enough to convince manufacturers about the importance of data. ” Among the technologies he believes are driving Industry 4.0

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ThroughPut

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting is a critical component of supply chain management, especially in the complex and unpredictable market landscape of 2024. To address these challenges, supply chain professionals must adopt advanced forecasting methods. Let’s get started with definitions, differences and benefits.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

During the spring, I get to spend a lot of time in airplane(s) attending and speaking at technology confer ences. The technology market for new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is drying up. Software maintenance costs are rising for the CIO. Consulting and software are very different business models.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 8, 2021

Today, with more consumers than ever taking the digital path to purchase, customer service is often an on-line-only experience. He explains, for some customer queries, there are “easily solvable and automated answers.” ” Use of chatbots and other automated systems are ideal in those circumstances.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. A Closer Look at Consumer Value Chains and the Value of the EACH.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Most manufacturers have already made the easiest and most obvious changes to improve their operations, leveraging traditional methods to boost their own productivity and simultaneously create a more dependable supply chain. Supply Chain Optimization. We’ve saved supply chain optimization for last.

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