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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven. Join us for the launch of the Supply Chain Index.).

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Evolution of B2B Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

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 this period the concept of trading exchanges were largely overhyped and the solutions under-delivered. Demand-driven lacks a consistent definition.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

It is one thing to write it, but it is a horse of another color to defend it. I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. Three things are happening, that I think are significant: Flextronics has invested in the development of Elementum.

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

While many technologists wave their hands advocating that Internet of Things (IOT) is the answer, I say not so fast. Won’t we have the same issue for Internet of Things data? I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

The Internet of Things. We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital. Our current enterprise solutions are slow and inflexible. A software developer starts with first-order design principles in the building of code. 3D printing. The list goes on and on.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders).

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Will Arrogance Stunt your Growth?

Supply Chain Shaman

A lot has changed in both business requirements and technology capabilities; yet, the fundamental technologies and the definition of the supply chain footprint remains unchanged. ” Or run the statement by any software provider, and they will share that their solutions delivered these “best practices.”