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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. I always start the discussion of all software acquisitions with the same statement: the acquisition of software is seldom a good deal for the buyer/user of software.

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Further Details and Highlights- Logility’s Acquisition of Starboard Solutions

Supply Chain Matters

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others. Added Highlights.

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Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and Consumer-centric Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Most business consultants today urge CPG manufacturers and retailers to become consumer-centric and demand-driven. Today’s consumer picture is even more confusing as a result of low unemployment rates (which generally means higher demand) and rising inflation (which generally means lower demand). ”[3].

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Let the Design Begin…

Supply Chain Shaman

It was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. On Wednesday, the theatre at the Michigan League was bursting at the seams to hold over 500 attendees. The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. Demand and Supply Variability. The theatre was packed.

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Sugar Beet Shortages Could Impact Food and Beverage Manufacturing

QAD

One October, when I was about 10 years old, my family and I traveled from the east coast of the United States to Michigan for a relative’s wedding. My mother, a Michigan native, told me that those were sugar beets and that they were used to make sugar. IoT and Advanced Technologies. Very interesting statistics.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23-27, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Kuebix Announces the First Free Multimodal Transportation Management System (TMS). Latest Use for a Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table (WSJ sub. Alphabet looks to snowy Michigan to test self-driving cars (Reuters). DCLI to Purchase TRAC Intermodal’s Domestic Chassis Fleet. UPS announces U.S.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. It’s not that an ERP system’s ability to mitigate abrupt business changes hasn’t been noted in the past. Managing shifts in demand patterns.