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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. And, what data is available to help us make better decisions?”

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

ATLANTA (November 18, 2021) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year and software license revenues were up slightly to $0.8 million for the same period last year, while Software license revenues were $1.3 NASDAQ: AMSWA) today reported preliminary financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I bought a shirt at Bloomingdales on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for 1$. When it comes to inventory and driving improvement in the face of variability, there are five issues: Poorly Implemented Advanced Planning Solutions. Reactive Behavior Based on Transactional Data. What went wrong?

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

I have also learned that you need a large data pool to derive the type of analysis that I want to publish. What I See in the Data. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. On October 15th, I will be speaking on the Qunitiq World Tour in Philadelphia. Here I share a cut of the data.

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What Remains the Same?

Supply Chain Shaman

On Wednesday morning, when I finished speaking at the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing in Fort Lauderdale, an executive from J&J pulled me aside and said, “Our strengths, are now our vulnerabilities.” ” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

As I read the literature, I felt out of touch and old-fashioned. “How could I not know about supply chain planning software?” On the plane to my interview, I read everything I could about planning software and thought about the simple spreadsheet challenge that was the genesis of my journey. ” I thought.

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Blockchain and You

Freight Plus

Blockchain is the technological engine behind BitCoin and cryptocurrency that companies have started to re-purpose as a tool to connect all of their partners along the supply chain. As with any new technology, blockchain is not immune from fears over data security & retention, adoption, standardization, and regulation.