Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To make my point, I stressed that: New Forms of Data. Becoming outside in requires the use of new forms of data– sensor data, unstructured sentiment, rating/review data, return data, point of sale data, weather.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. The data collection, and primary research, took place over a couple of years. The second was the overstatement of the importance of ERP data to planning. It is a dark and dismal day.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

Each year as I work with the team to compile the data, and sort through the winners, the growing strength in retail surprises me (despite the Amazon effect) and the slow decline in performance in manufacturing. We actually started the Supply Chains to Admire methodology to give the market a data-driven alternative. In Table 1.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. One use case I found particularly interesting was using data coming out of AI and Machine Learning (pattern recognition) to create what-if scenarios and actionable insights on the fly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2017

The flight into San Francisco on American was six hours late arriving at 7:00 AM EST. (I had scheduled the last flight out of Philadelphia on a Sunday night to spend the afternoon with my grandchildren.) Instead of the direct from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I was to fly on United to Newark and take a train from Newark to Philadelphia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). The world is no longer just about rows and columns and transactional data. It is about more than data sharing. Blockchain/Cryptocurrency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. Yet, within the supply chain, everyone waits for data and insights.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

LaLonde Best Paper Award (best paper published in the Journal of Business Logistics) goes to Top-down versus bottom-up demand forecasts: The value of shared point-of-sale data in the retail supply chain by Williams and Waller. I have attended the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference (SCMEC) in Atlanta. part 2/2 ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

So, I am going to focus here and share my answer: Demand sensing is the application of analytic technologies to detect short-term patterns in channel data and translate it into distribution requirements. The data can be structured or unstructured. Here goes: -Sales Wants to Manipulate the Data. It makes a difference. The answer?

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. One use case I found particularly interesting was using data coming out of AI and Machine Learning (pattern recognition) to create what-if scenarios and actionable insights on the fly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. When I do workshops on driving data sharing across the industry, the sales group of the seller of products often calls me aside for a one-on-one talk. On the door of my favorite coffee shop is a closed sign. This is a barrier.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Continued data and developments reinforcing recessionary conditions among global freight, logistics and online retail activity levels. This very week, smoke plumes generated from raging wildfires across Canada settled across major cities such as Boston , New York and Philadelphia creating rather hazardous air quality conditions.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. End-to-End Supply Chain Maturity Stages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data. Now it is just data. It is not sufficient to just digitize data. As you evolve to use “schema on read” capabilities and adopt machine learning, the master data issues that you have now go away.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. Focus on Helping the Right People Get to Data. When we shared this data with the roundtables of supply chain leaders who had completed the study, a number of attendees shared stories of how they had met the challenge of helping employees/planners to get to data. Figure 2.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. One use case I found particularly interesting was using data coming out of AI and Machine Learning (pattern recognition) to create what-if scenarios and actionable insights on the fly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want to connect in person, next week, I will be speaking at the Quintiq world tour in Philadelphia and at Pivotcon on the Digital Supply Chain in New York. All the best… Big data supply chains New technologies information technology success of IT projects supply chain' I love getting responses on my blog.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 23, 2011

At this year’s CSCMP Conference in Philadelphia I joined a presentation about high-quality reviews held by the co?editors editors in chief of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Therefore, I’d like to remember their July 2010 editorial, Crafting High-quality Reviews: Guidelines, Examples and Feedback.

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QAD

MARCH 3, 2022

Some important milestones in telephone history followed: The first phone line was operated between New York and Philadelphia in 1885. One example of a software solution or system that utilizes on-demand, data-driven communication is ERP. Bell eventually won the subsequent legal battles over the invention.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

The most agile supply chains are outside-in using channel data. Use this data as the targets for your cognitive and prescriptive analytics. This week, I sent personal invites to business leaders and Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners to attend the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

For me the story is not about the average; instead, I feel that the research insights lie in data distribution. ’ However, when we analyze the quartile data, we find that the range of satisfaction is greater for tactical supply planning. What else do we see in the data? Figure 2: Ability to Get and Use Data for Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

The term Big Data is all the range. For me, buzzword bingo on Big Data is bad. This includes ominchannel and big data. Do not use the big data lexicon. People like to touch data. It is well-proven that touching data adds little value. It is buzzword bingo at its finest. The air is thick. It is comical.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Going from Big Data to Big Decisions (Quintiq World Tour London). CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2016: September, Philadelphia). LogiChem US 2017 , TBA (2016: December 12-13, Philadelphia, PA). TMS for SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt (CSCMP 2016). Amazon: Disruptor or Distraction? SMC3 Connections 2016).

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

We keep all the data confidential and share the insights. Three courses are scheduled for in Philadelphia. Supply chains are not equipped to sense, think, and respond intelligently through digitized relationships which provide new sources of data and insight. Customer Centric Policies. Gamification. Scalable pricing available.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Consistent data is not available prior to 2006.) An orbit chart is the linking of data across years at the intersection of two metrics. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. When I started, I believed that all Titans were making progress towards improvement on the balanced scorecard.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Today, while the hype has dissipated, some data exchanges remain, and a few are starting to thrive again. The solution has been rebuilt from the ground-up to be a multi-tier data model and is named the Supply Chain Operating Network. Today, I feel that this advice is still relevant. They are not designed for multi-tier functionality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Clear understanding that the focus needs to be on the probability of the forecast, and that the focus needs to be outside-in based on channel data. Supply Chain Planning Data. Planning data is determined at the time of implementation and is seldom validated and refined. client meeting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Next, the IT department worked on the issues of infrastructure, risk, data security, cloud storage, and data sharing. The project became a means to an end to drive data-driven processes. Next year, the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th. Improvement in Digital Manufacturing.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thanks to Amazon Prime, shoppers expect inexpensive 1-2-day nationwide delivery from all stores, regardless of size, and consumer data also shows merchants that prioritize fast shipping have a distinct advantage over rivals. In today’s anything, anytime world, delivery speed and cost have become a make-or-break part of the business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Planner turnover, time to plan, ability to get to data, system usability, and talent gaps are all major issues. The data from this study is shown in Figure 1. It is not a one-to-many or a many-to-many data model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. I worked with consultants defining a business case for cloud-based supply chain solutions and new vendors looking to use artificial intelligence to solve the problems of master data management. I am recovering from bronchitis. I am reflective as the rain sheets down my window.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Self-reporting of data does not meet this standard. In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. The reason is simple. We then worked on the analysis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Planner turnover, time to plan, ability to get to data, system usability, and talent gaps are all major issues. The data from this study is shown in Figure 1. It is not a one-to-many or a many-to-many data model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. In preparation, we are finishing up research on supply chain planning excellence, big data and supply chain, supply chain talent, and digital manufacturing. Big Data Supply Chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

However, most of the data is not a normal distribution. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. Data latency is an issue and an opportunity. Also, the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is on September 4 th -7 th in Philadelphia, PA. We are not improving balance sheets.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At LogiPharma 2019 in Philadelphia, Deepak Ghodke, Vice President, Bristlecone Labs, spoke about how it is, therefore, not at all surprising that the increase in AI adoption has also extended to enterprises in recent years. Artificial Intelligence has become so deeply engrained in our lives that we don’t always realize it anymore.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2015

The conference will focus on strategies for creating a strong safety culture within the industry, and using new data capabilities to improve safety. At this conference, FTR promises to bring the same forward-thinking, data-driven approach that it does to freight forecasting and market analysis services.

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