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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The supply chain career is new.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that operate separate systems for revenue management and demand management create a risk in understanding market trends and gauging price elasticity quickly. With the increase in product complexity, many companies have demand latency longer than supplier lead time. Is this success? I don’t think so.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

” Or alternatively, “Is there data that could be sourced to help?” Low volume inconsistent demand. Use this data to understand demand predictability. If demand error is extremely high, traditional demand management techniques are of limited value. As a group, we drill into root issues.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information.

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) is a new approach to managing the complex process of getting products from manufacturers to consumers. It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers.

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Additionally t he move from regional to global supply chain management decreased visibility. Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk. Forecast Value-Added (FVA) is a measurement of demand management improvement. Yet, companies continued to invest primarily in ERP systems. . 2) Forecast Value Added.

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Four Reviews of DDMRP for Supply Chain Planning

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Source: The Enterprise System Spectator. In recent months four experts have weighed in on Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP). He is a great thinker on inventory planning and demand management.” Lora Cecere of SC Insights was the first of the supply chain expert opinions I saw on DDMRP.