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Las Vegas, NV – May 2025 I had the opportunity to attend Momentum 2025 in Las Vegas, Manhattan’s annual user conference focused on supplychain and commerce innovation. He introduced Enterprise Promise and Fulfill, a new solution that supports enterprise-wide inventory visibility and real-time order orchestration.
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New forms of technology are an enabler. Neil’s post in response to my post of Driving Value From Outside-in Planning : In her post, ‘Driving Value from SupplyChain Planning’, Lora Cecere provides great supplychain analysis and benchmarking for her supplychains to admire.
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It is a brilliant tool.” The enterprise software company also announced a new analytics solution covering external workforce management. I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality. SAP’s Business Network is a supplychain collaboration network.
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The SVP of SupplyChain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. Following their fourth quarter results, top executives talked about their supplychain and omnichannel strategy at a high level. Mr. Guggina talked about how Walmart is approaching their supplychain transformation.
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You are pissy and opinionated in this world of supplychain blandness. The term supplychain excellence is easier to say than define. I have been trying to define it as a supplychain analyst for over fifteen years. I had spent the last two decades in the technology market and I wanted to celebrate success.
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This afternoon, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen congratulation emails to the SupplyChains to Admire award winners. In the calculation of winners, we measure improvement through a vector analysis of orbit charts at the intersection of inventory turns/operating margins and growth/ROIC. SupplyChains to Admire Award Winners.
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Last week was the SupplyChain Insights Global Summit. 110 supplychain leaders attended. I smiled on the week following the conference as the accolades piled up in my inbox. Attending the conference was Alexia Howard, Senior Research Analyst – US Foods for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.,
by Dr. Madhav Durbha I enjoy attending conferences. One conference I recently attended is the Gartner SupplyChain Executive conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Use of drones ( EyeSee inside the warehouse for scanning and tracking inventory, Prime Air for delivery). smart refrigerators and Amazon dash buttons).
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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.
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