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I laugh when business leaders tell me that they are going to replace their current supplychain planning technologies with “AI.” Each supplychain planning technology at the end of 2024, went through disruption–change in CEO, business model shift, layoffs, re-platforming and acquisitions. The reason?
I find that most companies’ understanding of supplychain planning is immature, and that next week, at the Gartner SupplyChain Summit in Orlando, that many will don their Mickey ears to discuss what I consider outdated supplychain planning models. Buyingsupplychain planning software is hard.
(Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. The supplychain planner role is the most dissatisfied of any employee in the supplychain, but most focus on improving engines using AI into conventional work processes. This will not help.
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Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. While companies talk digital, the projects follow traditional supply-centric paths. They are not active on conference circuits. We have not achieved supplychain economies of scale.
In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supplychain strategy. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. What do I mean? To illustrate, let me share a story.
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. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buyingsupplychain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supplychain planning market is a mess. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.
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She wrote, “I have been working in the supplychain for 35 years, and we are still trying to solve the “demand” issue. Solving from a supply side seems to work for many companies I work with. Only 2% of companies are pushing forward in our SupplyChains to Admire analysis. I don’t know.
This trend spawned chains like Trader Joes, Walmart, Whole Foods, etc. Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. With the shifts in power, the relationships in the value chain are morphing. The supplychain needs it. I am a disbeliever. Collaboration is evasive.
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by Bill DuBois I recently attended the LogiPharma conference in Princeton, NJ to hear a number of speakers give their thoughts on the state of the pharmaceutical supplychain. Well, we are living our lives in supplychains. And we’ll find the keys by continuing the search for excellence.
This week, I spoke at the Llamasoft Summercon Conference. The conference was low-key. We laughed, and felt a bit silly, leaving the conference room holding our new furry tchotchkes. Today, supplychain design has become a process all to its own. Demand and Supply Variability. “What a crazy name!
Driving Sustainable Growth Through SupplyChain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great SupplyChain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.
Before that I was in management consulting doing what would be called supplychain design or reengineering today. Needless to say they have a continued multi-year deployment of the supplychain planning system provided by the ERP vendor. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process. She states that.
Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supplychain design solution.
Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in SupplyChainExcellence. He felt strongly that supplychain leaders knew how to drive supplychainexcellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches.
Most supplychain organizations recognize that their ERP solution does not deliver the functionality that they need to effectively model and plan their supplychain. What this approach did not do is validate the ability of the vendor’s solution to model the buyer’s supplychain and deliver value.
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Waves of hype pass through supplychain narratives. As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, and digital supplychains. and digital supplychains.
” SupplyChain Leader. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. I loved the quote that I captured today in my interview (see above), and I have enjoyed interviews with supplychain leaders like Peter Gibbons. Which metrics do you think matter to supplychainexcellence?
I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supplychain and logistics predictions. And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. as of this morning — a lower price than 5 years ago!
There, he navigated the complexities of the fuel desk, advising drivers nationwide on Comdata issues, optimizing purchase orders, and leveraging tax advantages. He earned dual bachelor’s degrees in business management and logistics and supplychain management from Missouri State University.
“If only I had the money that the company was supposed to save from the multiple ERP and supplychain projects. This year supplychain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supplychain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. I really do.
Dependency on Excel. Due to the shortfalls in the evolution of Advanced Planning, 68% of business users use Excel spreadsheets as the primary mechanism for planning. Excel–while widely used for planning–is not equal to the challenge of modeling complex supplychains. Clarity on SupplyChain Strategy.
We talk a lot about the importance of agility and flexibility in supplychain management and that is certainly true when it comes to project logistics. The process generally involves placing a purchase order with a supplier that says ‘Please deliver to us a cooling system to the attached specification’,” explained Ms.
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 SupplyChain Operating Network”. What benefits are they achieving?
The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supplychain strategy the same as a demand-driven supplychain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric SupplyChain Strategies. As we discussed this drawing the dialogue flowed in the conference room.
Ben Gordon and Joe Lynch discuss 5 trends shaping logistics and supplychain. In the interview, Ben reviews and discussed trends and interesting companies in ecommerce, final mile, cold chain, reverse logistics, and fulfillment. He draws on a career building, advising, and investing in supplychain companies.
We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? Work centers?
I am a supplychain gal. I work with many organizations on their supplychain strategies. Let me give you an example: Last week, I gave a presentation at a global supplychain team meeting of 175 professionals. This team is not buying the message. “I study supplychains.
I writhe in my seat at most conferences and count the number of times the word “digital” is used in presentations. For the purposes of clarity, in this article, the term digital supplychain is the transformation of the atoms and electrons within the supplychain to unleash new levels of value.
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Regional supplychain companies are attempting to define global requirements. They are well versed in requirements for regional supplychain planning, but they are attempting to redefine their processes and be more global. Success in SupplyChain Planning Is a Flip of a Coin. There is no one right answer.
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My takeaways from Gartner’s SupplyChain Executive Conference 2016. When it comes to SupplyChain Analytics, an “Apps approach” can have just as many benefits. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent SupplyChain Executive Conference.
If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supplychainconferences, we would be drunk at many. While we speak of collaboration, the focus is on driving enterprise results not value in value chains. As complexity increased, we did not design the supplychain to absorb greater variability.
So mark your calendar with the relevant supplychainconferences. SupplyChain Movement helps you along with an overview of the most important European supplychain events in 2015. 14th annual Cool Chain & Controlled Room Temperature Logistics Europe. eWorld Purchasing & Supply.
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