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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

I find that most companies’ understanding of supply chain planning is immature, and that next week, at the Gartner Supply Chain Summit in Orlando, that many will don their Mickey ears to discuss what I consider outdated supply chain planning models. No one wants to share openly.

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Definitions Matter

Supply Chain Shaman

In my writing, I try to get clear on definitions. The supply chain space is heavily laden with acronyms, gobbledygook, false narratives, and over-hyped, fast-talking technology sales teams. “At the Digital Supply Chain event at SAP. I have built five such systems for companies. Is there value?

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply management. Supply chain management. Supply chain planning. When deploying enterprise decision support applications, there are many implementations and lots of hype but few clear and consistent definitions. My Point of View (POV): current processes and technologies are insufficient.

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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

The burst of spring coupled with my second Pfizer vaccine gives me a glimmer of hope that perhaps the dark curtain of being chained to the home office is lifting. The Process of Software Selection. As the director of planning, Joe is involved in a multi-year process to select a new planning solution. My struggle?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Selecting a new enterprise technology or supply chain planning software provider can be wrought with challenge and risk. Specifically: people have lost their jobs over poor technology selections and failed implementation projects. This is especially true in supply chain planning & management platforms.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. Planning Needs to Change. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. This work completed in 2013 defined the Supply Chains to Admire. The full report publishes this week.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start With Clear Definitions My inbox is full. The market is flooded with references to AI, but few stop to give a definition. To combat the hype cycle to drive value, I think that we need to get clear on use cases and definitions. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data.