Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, I hosted the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. My question was, ” Would the world of Python, R, and NoSQL offer for an improved modeling environment with a digital twin deployment. ” Her answer was telling.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

These questions are top of mind as I wrap up a class of 154 individuals learning the principles of outside-in supply chain planning processes. The continuation of the belief in the definition of today’s supply chain planning is a tangled web that we weave that is a bit of a mess. Why does it matter?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome to Elementum’s Supply Chain Market Report. This monthly newsletter observes one or two important macro trends through the lens of Supply Chain Management. We review how those trends are likely to impact Supply Chain and what leaders can do to adjust. How could Stagflation impact Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. I wrote many reports on airport floors in those days–electrical plugs were just too scarce.) Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Measure it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

Here I want to address the question, “Why is the focus on the basics of supply chain a barrier to adopting new forms of analytics and supply chain processes? Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” The problem is that warehouses are full.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal language rooted in meaning that is different from the literal definitions of the words used in the expression. ). In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I share insights, based on research, for the supply chain leader. I write for this blog, craft reports from research for our newsletters, create blogs for Linkedin, and build articles for Forbes. The autonomous supply chain is a vision, but it is not today’s reality. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Background.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

With rising costs and declining margins, health systems must become more efficient and productive. We believe that a key pillar of this transformation is the supply chain. With such growth comes supply chain complexity. According to 2019 Definitive Healthcare data, U.S. Share on Twitter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The confusion starts when a supply chain leader states the need for improved visibility without a clear definition. Well-seasoned supply chain leaders understand that visibility is a capability not an IT taxonomy. The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Fuzzy definitions. Supply chain innovation is slowly simmering in the face of radical disruption. Supply chain innovation is slowly simmering in the face of radical disruption. The supply chain visionary wants novel and new. A Digital Supply Chain? Autonomous supply chains?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain Road is Full of Potholes, Construction and Accidents! Digital Procurement article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. What I’m getting at is… don’t be afraid to be an early adopter or co-innovator.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 5, 2019

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Our organization’s products, customers, and profit, are ultimately a byproduct of the global supply chain networks that operate on a daily basis to add value through collaboration. Traditional notions of innovation are often that innovation is to be driven forward by the internal structure of an organization (Olsson 2017).

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Unleashed

AUGUST 6, 2023

In this competitive pricing guide Competitive pricing definition Competitive pricing is a sales and marketing strategy that involves manipulating price points in a business to match or beat the pricing of its competitors. Competitive pressure between businesses can lead to greater innovation. Competitive pricing in fast-food chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Here, I postulate that the supply chain dragon is data. Supply chain leaders are drowning in data and low in insights. How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. The focus is on growth, but supply chains are not fit for purpose.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This week, E2open announced a definitive agreement to acquire Zyme. It is a larger acquisition than the prior purchases of Terra Technology , Steelwedge , or SCM-Icon. The focus was on automating procurement. The historic buyer of the E2open solution is procurement. Procurement does not equal supply chain.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They are demanding more supply chain transparency. Jennifer Furey and Rebecca Harris, attorneys at Goulston & Storrs, report, “Millennials are expected to inherit approximately $30 trillion in assets over the next 30 to 40 years. What is supply chain transparency?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Earlier this week, I read a sobering report from the national Retail Federation (NRF) regarding shrink. The recently released National Retail Security Survey shows that total shrink in 2021 reported by retailers is now almost a $100 billion problem. Most reported in-store, e-commerce, and omni-channel fraud are all on the rise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2017

As I participate in technology briefings with vendors, I am trying to piece together the future of supply chain management. I believe that supply chain leaders are in the middle of step change in process innovation driven by not one, but a confluence of technologies. Driving Innovation. Today it is raining.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 29, 2023

It requires planning highly integrated with other business functions, a transformation of analytics , and a business partner culture, which combined lead to the requirement for modern FP&A skills in the workforce. This is the definition of a “digital twin” for planning.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing? There has been transformation in the Procurement function over the past decade. From the starting point of the traditional buy-sell, transaction-based purchasing, the practice has moved through stages of change that redefines most aspect of the business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

With the evolution of cognitive learning, cloud-based analytics, non-relational technologies, and streaming architectures, the ERP vendors are no longer the center-piece of supply chain visionaries’ discussions. Software maintenance costs are rising for the CIO. New business models are evolving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

We finished our report on the maturation of hospital supply chains , and I have put the finishing touches on the Healthcare Supply Chain Index for this Thursday’s webinar. New Supply Chain Leader of a Regional Children’s Hospital. “We Supply Chain Leader of a Large Hospital. “We

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. The Promise of Innovation.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Every day, innovations that weren’t even conceivable a decade ago are used without a second thought. Can you possibly prepare for a supply chain future that may be completely inconceivable right now? Can you possibly prepare for a supply chain future that may be completely inconceivable right now?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 1, 2014

The curtain is rising on the third act of supply chain planning. Over the course of the last two decades, we have seen two evolutions of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) software. My goal is to enable you to be more equipped to purchase and select new forms of software for the third act. They all matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Locate them in an innovation center, not a function. So what to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2017

I believe that Supply Chains build economies and save the planet. Supply chain process and financial flows often run in counter currents. Two years ago, I completed a research study on supply chain visibility. When the report published, it stimulated many conversations. Supply Chain Visibility Gaps.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The atoms and electrons of the supply chain are changing. Transmitted perfectly, replicated indefinitely; and with a one-time investment in network infrastructure, a digital task performs well with zero marginal cost. The third Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over. 3D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 24, 2021

I was surprised to learn there is another definition for the term “change face.” 2] Two of the biggest changes in consumer behavior, brought on by the pandemic, have been an increase in online purchasing and an appreciation for touchless shopping, including options like curbside pickup. Supply chain.

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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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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2023

After four days of retail insights focused on the trends, business models, and technologies that are shaping the future of retail, ShopTalk 2023 has closed a successful and illuminating conference. The industry is definitely back in action after the sluggishness of Covid, and we’re looking forward to seeing retail gain momentum again.

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Unleashed

MARCH 31, 2021

We live in a global economy and that has made the supply chain all the more important – these days partner companies could be anywhere in the world, facing any number of challenges. However, when people refer to supply chains, they often use the terms ‘supply chain’ and ‘logistics’ interchangeably.

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