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What Remains the Same?

Supply Chain Shaman

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. A strong center of excellence tied to network design is essential.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The stories border on the ridiculous.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my role as an industry analyst, I have been lucky to attend many great conferences and hear wonderful speakers. One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. It requires the early adopter and visionary. Reflections. I was a skeptic.

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. Process Integration Across Functions.