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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Wikipedia Unleashing the Contrarian Here are my thoughts this morning over coffee: Gartner Top 25: Really A Celebration of Supply Chain Leadership? Designed to lift the profession and celebrate supply chain results, I struggle to find that the methodology supports either objective. I don’t think so.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

A large consumer products manufacturer with nine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) instances and several divisions wanted to discuss forecasting. The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” An easy way to think about time horizons is to align the thinking with supplying lead times.

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Logility Recognized Among SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

Logility

Logility nominated for its work with client iNova Pharmaceuticals. a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced its recognition as one of SupplyChainBrain ’s 2022 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. ATLANTA, GA (August 16, 2022) – Logility, Inc.,

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

Shifting demand and rising prices for cotton and orange juice. Higher spikes for lumber and building supplies. Surprising demand in automotive for car replacement. A shortage of pharmaceuticals in Puerto Rico. History is not a good predictor of current demand. ” Demand discussions raise emotions.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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American Software Reports First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

We continue to see increasing adoption of cloud-based supply chain transformation solutions, resulting in accelerating backlog growth as measured by our Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO), which increased 63% to $122 million in the first quarter when compared to last year. Omega Pharma International Nv, TBC DE Mexico S.A.