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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.
SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. It is a brilliant tool.” SAP’s Business Network is a supplychain collaboration network.
Building a software company is hard work. 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.
The Connected SupplyChain. Drip Digital SupplyChain. Autonomous SupplyChain Planning. Self-Healing SupplyChains. Touchless SupplyChains. Background I find that each conference provides the audience with a new framework to consider. But what is AI really?
Unfortunately, Helene was not an exception but instead illustrates the “new normal” situation, where weather events of increasing frequency and severity are no longer isolated incidents, but are instead a consistent threat to supplychains. tallying a staggering $182 billion in damages.
Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supplychain resilience. Background The Council of SupplyChain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supplychain resilience?
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. As I listen, I struggle. I don’t think so.
Self-congratulations notes abounded this week as vendor-after-vendor shared their rankings on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SupplyChain Planning. I believe that the Gartner Magic Quadrant is a barrier to progress in supplychain planning, and that vendors that rally in support have a false sense of superiority.
Supplychains quickly move through fads and buzz words. Today, entangled in digital supplychain discussions is the concept of the digital twin. Today, entangled in digital supplychain discussions is the concept of the digital twin. In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers.
According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supplychain performance requirements. What should supplychain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious SupplyChain Award. We need people that are adaptable.
Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. The supplychain team must grapple with a couple of questions.
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.,
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.
Businesses around the world are learning to adapt as best they can to the COVID-19 supplychain impact. Unpredictable consumer behavior in response to macro events creates demand volatility in every link of global supplychains. Rafael: It has been a really helpful tool with which to go through this crisis.
Scott Fenwick, Senior Director Product Strategy for SupplyChain Planning at Manhattan Associates. Manhattan Associates, a leading supplier of supplychain and omnichannel management software solutions, recently had a major product release that will shake up the supplychain planning market.
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. I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” The stories border on the ridiculous. Marketplace Rebirth.
In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supplychain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supplychain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.
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.
The 2025 NA Gartner SupplyChain Symposium|Xpo made one thing crystal clear: AI is no longer the futureits the engine driving the transformation of todays supplychains. Whether its demand forecasting, network design, or manufacturing optimization, AI is enabling companies to respond faster and smarter to disruption.
Today, nine out of ten supplychains are stuck. Despite two decades of advancement in supplychaintechnologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. Like an artifact, I have kicked around in the supplychain space since the 1980s.
This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing.
In todays rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, building a modern tech stack is not just a strategic advantage but a necessity for maintaining competitiveness. UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY STACKS A technology (or tech) stack combines various software applications and is used by organizations to help streamline their processes.
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. I know that your primary focus is procurement. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) I don’t know.
Currently, LinkedIn is flooded with smiling pictures of supplychain business leaders attending conferences. The good news is that we can attend conferences again. The panel group is sourced from my group of LinkedIn followers. I know, a SupplyChain Center of Excellence sounds like a good idea.
In Figure 1, I share a supplychain planning taxonomy or what I lovingly term an old-fashioned jalopy. Few companies design their supplychains (research data shows that 9% of companies actively design their supplychains), and few planning systems actively analyze and drive answers to the questions: Do I have a good plan?
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If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supplychains. We saw this right at the start of the pandemic, when parts being manufactured in Wuhan province disrupted car manufacturers’ production lines around the world.
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A large multinational is undergoing an impressive supplychain transformation that will run through 2023. A Complex SupplyChain. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supplychain. But even multi-sourcing is not enough.
There’s still a strong demand for supplychain planning solutions, particularly ones with machine learning capabilities that can help clients rapidly adapt to the changing supplier situations and consumer demand that goes along with major disruptions like this. . Supplychains will likely be structured in a radically different way.
Today’s DCs and fulfillment centers are a major driver of employment growth and a highly visible proving ground for autonomous robots and other next-generation technologies. For companies across industries, transforming existing DCs and narrowing this technology gap is key to competitive advantage in a changing economy.
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Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supplychain application to help manage their supplychains. Supplychain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. The agent technology is much more complicated than the math.
Hannah Kain and Joe Lynch discuss the outsourced supplychain, a topic Hannah is familiar with due to ALOM ‘s extensive experience managing supplychain functions for diverse industries. About Hannah Kain Hannah Kain is President and CEO of ALOM, a supplychain company she founded in 1997.
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. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supplychain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supplychain planning market is a mess. Most have purchasedsoftware, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.
The global supplychain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. The impact varies by supplychain sector and value chain. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing. What to do?
In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere in countless headlines, on every conference agenda and on the minds of leaders in virtually every industry. This is the year that AI stops being just a buzzword and begins to evolve into an operational imperative for manufacturers, retail and supplychain companies.
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SupplyChain Matters provides initial highlights of the annual Kinaxis customer conference held last week. Supplychain orchestration software provider Kinaxis held its annual kinexions customer conference last week in Austin Texas with this Editor in attendance.
“If only I had the money that the company was supposed to save from the multiple ERP and supplychain projects. ” CFO of a major manufacturer. When I started SupplyChain Insights I wanted to put “research” at the core of the company. I am a skeptic. I want to believe. I really do.
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No one knows, but in my discussions, business leaders agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and the projected impact on supplychaintechnology looms large sending the industry into very different gyrations. My first digital supplychain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.)
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