DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In part 1 of my blog on Planning the Value Chain and Decision Making in Times of Disruption, the focus was on the ability to react and execute amidst the unpredictability of demand. Ultimately, what KPIs, as metrics and indicators derived from the set of plans are taken into account and prepared for each scenario.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities. It was great to see click and pay on the London tube, and I love some of the new models that are being developed in grocery and specialty stores for purchases on-line and pick-up at the stores. Don’t fool yourself.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience. Figure 1: U.S. Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison. Somewhat nailed it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

In part one of this blog series, I started the saga of the supply chain fairy tale. It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

There is an inverse relationship between margin and supply chain excellence. Zimmer’s strategic framework focuses on growth, operational excellence and prudent capital allocation. Leaders need to start a system to improve measurement and tie performance to buying incentives. I don’t think so. It matters more. My Challenge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. I would build an expertise system in the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. After three years of research, I have just refined the methodology to start to pull the trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. In this blog, I’ll focus on the Q-commerce case. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed. Composability as an Enabler of Agility & Resilience.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

You’ll note in the headline I use the preposition “of” instead of “to” when describing the “journey of Supply Chain Excellence.” The differentiator is whether Supply Chain Excellence is defined as a one-time project or as on ongoing process. Circuit City failed to adapt and is now history.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

“Reach out to other departments about ways to collaborate on sustainability initiatives, and talk to your executive team to gain buy in.” Translating corporate targets into specific team goals and building them into each function’s performance metrics helps embed sustainability into regular workflows.” The post St.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. I believe that value is what you create. 3) Risky Business?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

” In this blog, I share the insights on the current state of the healthcare value chain and the recommendations of the panelists. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. I think both factors are at play. Healthcare.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

This data empowers procurement teams to negotiate better supplier terms, optimize purchasing decisions, and eliminate wasteful spending ensuring procurement supports broader organizational goals. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. It’s impossible for me to capture all of the great insights shared by the speakers in a brief blog post, but here are some highlights and key takeaways.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have come to the conclusion that this needs some further analysis, which I won’t be able to complete in a single blog. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. Their words. She states that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. I give you this evidence in this blog.). Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. My challenge?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

With the rise in complexity, most Supply Chain Metrics That Matter are going backwards (inventory turns, ROIC, operating margin and growth). Avoid buying software from a consulting company. Do not buy software based on partnerships. Consulting and software are very different business models. They are very different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In this blog post, I publically answer the questions from the webinar. Q: You mention that Executive Buy-in is the biggest stumbling block. What techniques are being used to get executive buy-in? Q: What is the best metric to begin analyzing when starting to evaluate Supply Chain agility? They are also very confused.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. I take independence seriously. This is my 310th post.

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Jaggaer

MAY 8, 2025

She works with supply chain leaders to take teams to higher levels of excellence and is an influencer with more than 340,000 followers on LinkedIn. How often do your purchase orders change? For example, if your supplier is on wafer-thin margins, it may be bulk purchasing in order to reduce costs, leaving it with excess stock.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in this blog, I am going to rely on the account of the songwriter, that the song is a childhood story about a dragon that lived in Honalee. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. Rules, engines, policies and metrics need to align.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. In parallel, we now know that the Demantra solution purchased by Oracle lacks scalability and usability, but the perception is that it is well-integrated into the Oracle suite. It is complex. There are many parameters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. Prior to the buy-out, E2open’s stock price was battered with a decline in the company’s shares by 74% over the last year. The initial public offering of 4,687,500 shares of its common stock at $15 per share.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2021

” In order to achieve that goal, companies need to move from Excel spreadsheets to cognitive technologies with embedded advanced analytics. ” In other words, digital transformation is not about buying technologies, it’s about using technologies the right way. ” 6 Rivers Systems Blog, 24 June 2019. [3]

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

Manufacturing Procurement 150

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 10, 2014

An accomplishment-based resume provides metrics and quantifiable info about a candidate’s accomplishments. Here''s a blog post we did that goes into some more detail about how to write an accomplishment-based resume. It is the quickest and simplest way to help an employer buy into you and answer the common interview question ‘so….

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Too much quilting, typing and repetitive motion….) I smiled and sat back enjoying the moment. Bio-engineering?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” Kehat’s feedback is that “Getting management buy-in for the implementation of cost-to-serve process is easy, but the implementation is difficult.” Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. Why does it matter to you?

Inventory Reduction 150

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2015

If you leave her to build reports and metrics that she needs in excel then she’ll spend all her time crunching numbers instead of planning your company’s largest asset. I covered this last week , but I really can’t stress enough how important it is to select metrics that support all of your business goals. Hierarchies.

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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. As I end this blog post, let me leave you with three thoughts.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Specifically, practitioners can use intuitive displays to drill into safety metrics, product quality, on-time delivery, cost efficiency, and much more. Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. Quality Control. Life Cycle Maintenance.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 15, 2023

Manufactures are continuously faced with the challenge of forecasting how much (raw material) to purchase and how much (finished goods) to produce. Even though business data availability has increased, customer purchase patterns has also become more complex, and therefore harder to predict with accuracy.

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