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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

Logistics Viewpoints

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. However, each user has their own instance of the software.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO at Supply Chain Planning Vendor o9 Solutions There are several young supply chain software companies that are unicorns. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions. In January of 2022, Dallas-based o9 Solutions was valued at $2.7 Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard.

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How to Navigate ESG Risk with Supplier Management Software

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ESG Regulations are Driving Investment in Sustainable Procurement Regardless of where you stand on the ethics behind ESG issues, you’d think consumer demand would be a clear driver for sustainable product development. Compliance appears to be a significantly larger driver for sustainable procurement than ethics or consumer demand.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. On September 30, the big data company Palantir went public in an initial 22B$ market valuation. Data science is only useful when companies are clear on the question to ask. Palantir IPO.

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Consumer Credit, Generation Z, and the Consumer Packaged Goods Sector

Enterra Insights

”[1] Analysts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York note that this was the first time in history that U.S. According to anonymized and aggregated account data tracked by the Bank of America Institute, the median savings and checking balances were at least 30% higher in July than they averaged in 2019.

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

The good news, however, is they have plenty of options in their product assortments, store footprints, customer behavior and even virtual worlds as they face these economic headwinds, using tools including basket analysis, which shows what customers are buying, and assortment planning, which helps retailers decide what to sell.”

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Grocery Prices: How High Will They Go?

Enterra Insights

.” If that news isn’t grim enough, the staff at Fetch Rewards insists, “Food inflation [is actually] higher than government data.”[2] The New York Times ‘ reporters note that some shoppers, despite rising gas prices, are making trips to multiple stores looking for bargains. Share data.