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Step Past AI Hype Drive Real Value

Supply Chain Shaman

Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. The big data architectures are often present in the current “AI offerings.” The building of data listening platforms to enable teams to answer the questions that they did not know to ask.

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Five Reasons Why Are We Not Making Progress on Inventory Management

Supply Chain Shaman

I was speaking to a frustrated CFO last week that said, “If I had 1% of the money spent on technology to improve inventory management, I would be a rick man.” I wanted to say, “You let the consultants influence you to buy the wrong technologies based on IT standardization. Most planning happens in Excel Spreadsheets.

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Implementing Last-mile Delivery Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

To remain competitive, retailers and carriers must excel in the crucial last-mile delivery stage. To Build or To Buy Companies looking to implement new or improve existing delivery technology face a crucial decision: should they build an in-house platform or buy an existing solution from a vendor?

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. In addition, build a planning master data management system. Record shipment times into a dynamic database for lead times (based on actual data) and ground planning models with this new logistics reality. Over time, this changed.

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Cloud-Based ERP guide for Operational Excellence

My Office Apps

Start Your Year with Cloud-Based ERP: The Ultimate Guide to Operational Excellence Begin your year on a transformative note by embracing the power of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a cutting-edge approach to managing core business functions using cloud computing.

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Optimizing Supply Chain Transparency with Digital Product Passports

Logistics Viewpoints

AI (Artificial Intelligence) Artificial Intelligence helps process and analyze the large amounts of data generated by DPPs. This enhances efficiency by automating data management tasks and providing insights that would be difficult to achieve manually.

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Why Master Data Management is Important in Trade Compliance

3rdwave

In most organizations, the ERP is meant to be the repository of the organizations’ master data. That is, ‘important’ data is housed there. However, Master Data Management is seen as a challenge in most organizations. Important data is a matter of perspective. Why is that?