Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Last week enterprise ERP and SCM software and technology platform provider SAP SE made what the provider declared as a significant and groundbreaking announcement. That includes industry supply chain teams that utilize various SAP SCM software and data management applications as their primary support mechanism.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2025

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology providers. This start-ups technology is based on the open-source database PostgreSQL.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As Founder and Executive Editor , I am pleased to announce to our global-wide Supply Chain Matters readership that Adaptive Supply Chain Planning technology provider ketteQ will be an additional Named Sponsor of this independent thought leadership platform.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 18, 2025

Industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters founder Bob Ferrari provides observations and insights garnered from the SAP Sapphire customer conference held in May. We have provided these observations of this platform for quite a few years. Further indicated was that SAP was not delivering a harmonized data model up to now.

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Logility

JUNE 27, 2018

Swimming pool control systems that automatically adjust chemical levels based on your desired water chemistry and immediately alert you to potential issues or equipment failures. Analytics are literally everywhere. Open any supply chain periodical, blog, or report and chances there is a discussion around the importance of analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides initial highlights of the annual Kinaxis customer conference held last week. Supply chain orchestration software provider Kinaxis held its annual kinexions customer conference last week in Austin Texas with this Editor in attendance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. At the session, together through education, sharing case studies, and reviewing research, we will explore the opportunities to build a Network of Networks to improve B2B supply chain connectivity. Definitional Image.

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2018

Swimming pool control systems that automatically adjust chemical levels based on your desired water chemistry and immediately alert you to potential issues or equipment failures. Analytics are literally everywhere. Open any supply chain periodical, blog, or report and chances there is a discussion around the importance of analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives relative to this weeks announcement from adaptive supply chain planning technology provider ketteQ regarding its new product release which is named Dubai. Improved open architecture and solver-based technology.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2025

This posting is the third installment in our ongoing supply chain technology market education series. In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design and why.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Get the insights beverage companies need to meet today’s biggest supply chain challenges. Port congestion, shipping delays, and other supply chain disruptions are affecting industries across all economic sectors, and that includes beverages of all types. Supply Chain Disruptions Affecting the Beverage Industry.

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Logility

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I guess it was just a matter of time until my love of Star Wars met my love of supply chain management. So what is continuous planning and why is it the ultimate new supply chain weapon? Glad you asked…. Sounds great, right? The optimized periodic plan is the starting point for continuous planning activities.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 16, 2020

.”[2] He continues, “Whereas once those assets were safely confined within the enterprise, the confluence of mobile technologies, the cloud, the Internet of Things, edge computing, containerization, social media, and big data itself has shifted the onus of data management to external, decentralized sources.”

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Silvon Software

MAY 1, 2024

In an era where data is the new oil, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to extract valuable insights from their vast data reservoirs. Predictive Analytics has emerged as a pivotal tool in this quest, offering unprecedented foresight into market trends, consumer behavior, and operational efficiencies.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters industry demand and supply perspective we highlight this week’s expressed concern by the CEO of Airbus regarding the achievement of 2024 year-end delivery performance. Such an occurrence came this week with added implications for commercial aircraft supply networks. There is clear context.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech , we highlight significant B2B supply chain platform and control layer announcements that are coming forth from prominent ERP and enterprise software providers at a particularly rapid rate.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

In today’s competitive market, the successful operation of a business hinges on the smooth integration of various processes and information management systems, especially when it comes to 3PL integration. It enables these systems to communicate with each other in an organized and automated way.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By integrating technologies such as AI and machine learning right from the start, DPO not only solves complex operational challenges but also drives significant growth. Advances in technology drive the automation and continuous improvement of business workflows.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Supply chains used to live in the past. Thanks to the more advanced forms of supply chain analytics like predictive analytics, supply chains are proactively looking into the future and prepping for “what is to come” rather than only ruminating over “what already happened.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 25, 2024

Last week supply chain planning and execution synchronization technology provider Kinaxis conducted this provider’s annual customer conference. In the product focused keynote, Kinaxis Chief Product Officer Andrew Bell observed that supply chain management teams and respective planners remain in a difficult position.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog announces the availability of our supply chain technology market education research advisory titled: The Journey Toward Synchronized B2B Supply Chain Networks Requires Broader Perspectives in Technology Planning.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 7, 2021

In today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment, unexpected market demand and supply disruption can occur at any time. Functionally siloed supply chains can lead to increased latency, delayed responsiveness, unplanned expediting, and excess inventory. The relationship between S&OE and S&OP.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2023 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. Partner has broad implications relative to collaboration, transparency and skin in the game.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The following is a continuation of a supply chain technology thought leadership education series developed in collaboration with Replan. and subsequent supply chain, operational and shop-floor planning and scheduling needs related to process focused manufacturing. Industry and manufacturing 4.0

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters Editorial Commentary , Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari addresses the age old saga of spreadsheet use in business and the implications for eventual deployment of advanced AI applications. This condition is not a revelation to this long-time supply chain technology analyst.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 19, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a perspective of Generative AI ’s timeline on supply chain business processes and the importance of continuing business systems support during that transitionary period. The report’s cited statistics point to a forecast that the IT market in the U.S.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Supply Chain Can Teach Us Much About the Future of Professional Education Labor issues command a lot of attention right now, and notably the challenge of how to find enough talent to meet current and future market demands. The supply chain industry is no exception in this sense. and hence their managers?—?need

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Alloy

MARCH 21, 2019

Consumer goods brands that are looking to grow in 2019 and beyond need to take a closer look at their retail analytics. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the trends in retail analytics in 2019 and beyond. What Are Retail Analytics? by using data and conducting robust analysis.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares select individual prediction snapshots that are included in our annual 2023 predictions for industry and global supply chains research advisory. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of B2B, and ERP Cloud based software provider SAP SE’s formal reporting of Q1-2024 financial performance. billion restructuring charge associated with the announced 2024 corporate wide restructuring program that was highlighted by Supply Chain Matters in January.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2024 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. This includes various supply chain management needs focused on business processes and decision-making.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 15, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides part two of highlights from supply chain concurrent planning technology provider Kinaxis ’s annual Kinexions 2022 customer conference held in May. Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, School of Business, Northeastern University.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

Bear markets drive heightened interest in supply chain management. These supply chain groups are more global and diverse. The traditional processes, rooted in historical relationships with large system integrators and technologies will crumble, as companies push for answers on value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value). What does it take?

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Life sciences digital supply chain planning will help the industry meet growing challenges more efficiently and effectively. When ranking supply chains that impact people’s daily lives the most, healthcare products usually pop up in the top three, behind food and water. Digitalizing Supply Chain Planning.

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