Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. Generalize procurement of materials.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

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. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

According to the Conference Board, despite lockdowns and COVID-19 related restrictions, consumer confidence in Asia rose in the last quarter of 2021 to 128 points from 126 points. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. As a result, consumer behaviour is likely to become more and more unpredictable.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. Improve process quality for vendors and BASF.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. More and more companies purchasing inventory technologies, but failing to give planners time to plan. Buying the technology and not having clear processes and accountability does not help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. This starts by clearly defining the roles of each function, and then focusing the cross-functional teams on the same metrics. “Lucky me,” I thought, and smiled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). Let’s start by addressing the barriers. Barrier #1. Inside-out Thinking.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. Prediction 1 – Spend Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. Is it coincidence? I don’t think so.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In other words, many supply chain and purchasing solutions looks at historical transaction activity (what happened in the past and is captured in our ERP systems). This is a radical representation, as it requires thinking that the key performance metric in this case is agility and responsiveness to customer and technological change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. Remember, as you listen to the pitches in a conference room with pretty powerpoint(s), remember that each person pitching you the nirvana story is heavily incented to sell the service.). Buying From the Same Vendor Improves Integration. Move quickly!

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