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Gartner Wades into Geo Politics with Advice for Supply Chains given Iran Israeli Hostilities

Supply Chain Digest

Eurasian Rail Freight: Demand for rail freight between Asia and Europe has surged, leading to congestion and longer booking times. Ian Jansen Mr, NHLS Posted on: Sep, 14 2016 SCM is all about getting the order delivered to the Customer on date/ time requested because happy Customers = Revenue. We have to keep this in mind.

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US Manufacturing Sector Contracted for 30th Out of Last 32 Months in June

Supply Chain Digest

Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. meaning order books are declining on average. a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 a little up from 48.5 Supply Chain Digest Says. What do you say? recorded in May.

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How Technology is Revolutionizing Personal Finance Management

IT Supply Chain

In this blog post, you’ll discover how apps, smart tools, and even artificial intelligence are making personal finance simpler and smarter. These tools are helpful because they show your progress clearly. This means the more you use these tools, the better they get at helping you. Some apps even let you set goals.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The solution solved a relevant industry issue. 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. Transora had a short history. Clear governance.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. I always start the discussion of all software acquisitions with the same statement: the acquisition of software is seldom a good deal for the buyer/user of software.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. ” I thought. I wanted to catch-up. I was a skeptic.

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Reflections on Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. Consultants recommended the solutions by SAP and Oracle. The reason?