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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results.

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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old. The first use of the term supply chain management in the commercial sector was in 1982.

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Gain a Leading Edge in Inventory Management through Digital Transformation

DELMIA Quintiq

For manufacturers aiming to unify their inventory management, digital transformation is the answer. Equipped with DELMIA solutions, you can gain superior control over your supply and demand management and inventory flow.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management. Traditional demand shaping technologies are inside-out focused on order patterns and do not drive baseline insights across demand management.

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Future Procurement Capabilities: Supply Managers Need to Think like CFO’s

Supply Chain View from the Field

In this first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring many of the key themes that emerged in the recent Future of Procurement study I co-authored with KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Council. The first of the themes we will explore is the procurement manager’s role as a support to the Chief Financial Officer.

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Optimize Operations with Accurate Demand Forecasting

QAD

You can proactively adjust inventories and labor management to cover the periods of uncertainty in your demand plan. The production and procurement plan begins with the forecast. As Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group states: “ Demand management solutions that use machine learning perform better than solutions that don’t.

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Supply Chain Leadership Model Example in Retail Apparel Industry

Supply Chain Matters

According to the announcement , Amoretty joined the company’s senior leadership team tasked to develop a production, operations and procurement vision for its supply chain to ensure multi-year growth, product line expansion plans and profitability. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.