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Are You Putting Lipstick on a Pig? Or Creating New Value?

Supply Chain Shaman

During the spring, I get to spend a lot of time in airplane(s) attending and speaking at technology confer ences. Software maintenance costs are rising for the CIO. In parallel, the traditional software vendors are struggling with the Innovators Dilemma. Consulting and software are very different business models.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

When it comes to inventory and driving improvement in the face of variability, there are five issues: Poorly Implemented Advanced Planning Solutions. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. IBM, in contrast, purchased over fifteen supply chain acquisitions but drove little innovation.

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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Now if only other nations could take a couple pages from their play book. That said many countries are struggling to accommodate the new sources of power into grids designed for fossil fuel power generation. At the LogiSYM conference earlier this year in Singapore, I talked to a representative of a packaging solutions firm.

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Dictionary.com. During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. This makes me yawn.

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Best Practices for ERP Implementation: 8 Tips for a Successful Rollout

Precoro

Are you planning to implement enterprise resource planning software but have some concerns about budget overruns, project delays, and disruption of business processes? We have all heard horror stories about poorly implemented ERP solutions that take forever to see a return on investment or, even worse, never actually come to fruition.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The current market offers no solution.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This year the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. Also, tools have been developed to enable horizontal partnerships to reduce empty truck miles. degrees Celsius,” states the Climate Action Tracker.