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Do You Need a Graph?

Supply Chain Shaman

In these conventional IT approaches, data is written and coded with fixed semantics into rows and columns. I term this our data jail. Primed for transactional efficiency, these legacy architectures based on relational databases drive order-to-cash and procure-to-pay efficiencies. As a result, data query is fast.

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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

Logistics Viewpoints

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. To get visibility to whether a load will be on time and in full, a lot more data is required. What accounts for FourKites Growth?

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. FourKites is a private company headquartered in Chicago in the US. Over 12 billion transactions per year occurred on the network.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. Safety stock levels need to account for demand and supply variability but most built inventory policies only on demand data. Reactive Behavior Based on Transactional Data. There are many problems with this approach.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Tonight, I am stranded in a hotel in Chicago. The Chicago airport is closed for the night. I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. It is time to move to a many-to-many data model.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain management requires good data at the mix level of an item/location. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The data in Table 1 is from a recent research study. Figure 3.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

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Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Part art, part sport, I find Marilyn Monroe put it best: “Happiness is not in money but in shopping.” (I live in Chicago. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. And as it turns out, I’m not alone.