Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

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. So, as I cleared my throat to present at the Summercon conference, I looked into the eyes of over 500 supply chain professionals.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As a result, I invested in building qualitative survey capabilities and built a database of twenty years of supply chain ratio data (for more on this capability reference the research report, The Effective Frontier and check out our community ). You see it conference after conference. It is in presentation after presentation.

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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. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

Last week in the middle of a presentation, a supply chain leader made the statement, “We have solved the issues in supply through better optimization and use of data. Currently, we at Supply Chain Insights are working on presentations for our upcoming Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Every time that it happens, I smile.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. So, why did I ask SanDisk to present?

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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”. How are companies using SCONs in the real world?

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EcoVadis

JULY 11, 2016

Before the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York City June 22, a pre-conference roundtable session on supply chain sustainability was held at the UN Headquarters. EcoVadis Senior Account Executive Daniel Perry was invited by UNGC to present, and has reported here on the discussions and outcomes of the workshop.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I have read your report on S&OP technologies, and I have some questions.” In my prior jobs as an analyst, the research reports were locked behind a paywall; and even though I would have liked to have been able to talk directly to Steve, the commercial model of the prior positions prohibited it. He was exuberant.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2016

They expect to be able to make purchases and receive service in that same lightening quick timeframe. All three presented great keynotes at this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, and all three said the same thing. And that need for speed extends beyond just gathering facts on the information highway.

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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. If you cannot join us live, check out the presentations and join the debate on social media.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

In short, we cannot put a wrapper around ERP, traditional reporting, or traditional fulfillment and call it Big Data, Customer-Centric Retailing or Omni-Channel Fulfillment. It requires new forms of analytics, cloud-based solutions and the design of packaged applications from the consumer back. The focus needs to be on the shopper.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The subject came up at a conference I attended where the theme was the supply chain of 2030. But, before we turn out the lights and lock the door to a fully automated, self-aware, supply chain “Skynet” , let’s take a moment and put this idea into some perspective. Let’s think about that for a minute.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. Customer sentiment technologies mine the patterns of unstructured text and use new forms of analytics to guide discovery on what matters to the customer. Bio-engineering?

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 5, 2023

Please feel free to do that now and throughout the presentation if you need to talk to me, or you have any technical issues, please feel free to use chat. We have two great presenters for you today: Christine Pompa from Arena, and Bruce McKean from Rimsys. For this presentation today, we’re really going to focus on the external audits.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today? Descartes, in short, is alive and well.

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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. Presented well, these demonstrate expertise and inspire trust and confidence. They are effective for establishing a long-term online presence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

At the end of every presentation, one of my clients always says, “Let’s fix the basics.” Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Historic processes are inside-out tightly integrated to orders and purchase orders.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The monthly cycle of S&OP meetings has been the forum in which a firm’s forecasts have been presented and reconciled across functional areas. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. KEY POINTS. The IBP Cycle According to Palmatier and Crum.

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Alloy

JUNE 25, 2019

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference , one of the standout sessions was “The Penalty Conundrum?—?Suppliers Walmart explains In her presentation, Ms. If a shopper chooses a different brand or not to purchase at all because a product isn’t available, it’s a lost sales opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Two weeks ago, I sat in the audience at Pivotcon , a conference focused on the advancement of digital business. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. It is a conundrum. As I read them, I laugh. I give them credit. e-commerce.

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