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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s start with definitions: Self Service Planning: Decision support technologies designed for business leaders to use analytic techniques on a collaborative platform to improve business planning. Outside-in Planning: Modeling based on channel and supply network signals. This week, I was at Informs Analytics Conference.

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Changing Winds in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

The news reports symptoms, not root causes. Changing Analytic Capabilities. Dramatic improvement in capabilities to drive insights through the use of analytics. Demand continues to shift as consumers focus on the purchase of products and fewer services. Chemical Sector Inventory Availability.

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Changing Winds in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

The news reports symptoms, not root causes. Changing Analytic Capabilities. Dramatic improvement in capabilities to drive insights through the use of analytics. Demand continues to shift as consumers focus on the purchase of products and fewer services. Chemical Sector Inventory Availability.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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Changing Winds in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

The news reports symptoms, not root causes. Changing Analytic Capabilities. Dramatic improvement in capabilities to drive insights through the use of analytics. Demand continues to shift as consumers focus on the purchase of products and fewer services. Chemical Sector Inventory Availability.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. Figure 1. The result? The reason?

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The Importance of a Strong Supply Chain and Logistics Strategy!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A global chemical manufacturer recently had to replace ships that transported bulk materials to ports. These materials were then transferred to barges and rail cars for delivery, and finally to terminals where they were packaged into shipping containers for final delivery by rail.