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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Clear understanding that the focus needs to be on the probability of the forecast, and that the focus needs to be outside-in based on channel data. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Supply Chain Planning Data. There is no one in the organization responsible for planning master data.

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Yet, within the supply chain, everyone waits for data and insights. This is the goal of this blog. The digital supply chain enables the use of market data at the cadence of the market.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. Map the data and the processes outside-in. Forms of Channel Data. The Building Blocks.

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Technology Scores a Goal but Humans Still Control the Game

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Editor’s Note: Earlier this month, Carlos Banda contributed a blog post for Connect®. Please share your thoughts and read the blog post, Technology Scores a Goal but Humans Still Control the Game. How about soccer balls embedded with sensors to measure key metrics? On rare occasions the calls are spectacularly wrong.

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

With some 5 decades of mostly disaggregated corporate legacy data already in existence, and soon over 50 billion smart connected devices by 2020 generating data-streams in real-time, it becomes all the more challenging for companies to eliminate operational bottlenecks without using AI and automation software.

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How Cloud ERP can assist manufacturers with their procurement function

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

With Cloud ERP analytics can be used to improve, classify, and analyze data by supplier and category. A company like Ford for example is working with key suppliers in China, India, Thailand, and South Africa to eliminate over 4900 metric tons of CO2 emissions in the next three years.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group.