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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

“We are considering the purchase of Blue Yonder, Logility, Kinaxis, o9, or OMP. How do you define excellence in planning? Companies that buy technologies from an RFP process have a high likelihood of ending up in this predicament.

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. customer-centric supply chains Market-Driven Supply chain excellence beauty customer-centric supply chain L'Oreal personal productsFrançois-Régis Le Tourneau leads the efforts at L’Oreal for Standards & Prospective Process Improvement.

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How Do We Stop Buying Planning Software the Wrong Way?

Supply Chain Shaman

“We are considering the purchase of Blue Yonder, Logility, Kinaxis, o9, or OMP. How do you define excellence in planning? Companies that buy technologies from an RFP process have a high likelihood of ending up in this predicament.

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Watch: Ensuring Excellence in the Post-Purchase Experience

Supply Chain Brain

Joe Marcaurelle, vice president and assistant general manager with Inmar Post-Purchase Solutions, explains how online merchants can use the post-purchase experience to change the returns process from a cost burden to a competitive advantage

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Citations of Excellence Awards 2014

SCM Research

Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. This time, the list contains at least two papers from related disciplines that could be useful to influence the way we are conducting research in our field.

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How to excel in last mile delivery

DELMIA Quintiq

Grocery retailers that want to excel in this space — while protecting their bottom line — need to optimize their logistics planning.

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6 step purchasing plan example for your yearly business purchases

Silver Lynx Supply Chain

You need a purchasing plan! Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. Imagine having the luxury to completely assess all the options without rushing to purchase.

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6 step purchasing plan example for your yearly business purchases

Silver Lynx Supply Chain

You need a purchasing plan! Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. Imagine having the luxury to completely assess all the options without rushing to purchase.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for supply chain excellence.

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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

Precoro

Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. It can answer the following questions for business: What are we buying? From whom are we buying? In what quantities are we buying?

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Don’t Confuse Excellence with Perfection

Talking Logistics

After a lot of back and forth discussion, and not really getting through to him, I finally said, “If perfection is your goal, then you’re always going to be disappointed,” especially in baseball, where failing 7 out of 10 times at the plate is considered excellent. Don’t confuse excellence with perfection,” I told my son, words of advice that I repeat to myself tonight. Was Apple striving for perfection or excellence with those products?

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Getting Away from Excel Spreadsheets: A Project Logistics Case Study

Talking Logistics

The process generally involves placing a purchase order with a supplier that says ‘Please deliver to us a cooling system to the attached specification’,” explained Ms. However, prior to implementing their current solution from Axit, this was all done via Excel spreadsheets, as Ms. And if Excel crashed, you could lose hours or even days or weeks of work!”. Case Study Episode Highlights AXIT CSCMP EDGE 2017 Excel Siemens supply chain visibility

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Renting vs Buying an Industrial Tent – Which is Better for You?

Supply Chain Game Changer

It’s excellent protection against rain on what could’ve been a perfect day, too. You can attain an industrial tent by either buying or renting it. Individuals and organizations usually buy or rent a tent to provide enough space for visitors to an event or additional storage.

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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors

Supply Chain Shaman

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. The key is that an excellent digital supply chain strategy starts with a clear goal rather than a list of technologies.

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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. The CFO decides to fund the purchase of Company B by suing Company A for non-performance.

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Visibility in Transportation Management Leads to Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

Typically companies operated in silos, but according to a recent Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee survey, while some lines between business functions have blurred, silos still exist, especially between purchasing and logistics. With visibility as the key driver for an effective supply chain improvement strategy, businesses today must rely on building collaborative relationships in their extended supply chains to gain visibility from end-to-end.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence.

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Why the Traditional Approach to Buying Supply Chain Planning Systems is Flawed

ToolsGroup

Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, noted in a recent webinar that a common outcome of these failed implementations is that supply chain organizations end up in “Excel ghettos where lots of people are touching data but not improving it.”. The old way of buying supply chain planning (SCP) solutions was similar to purchasing an ERP solution – long lists of requirements and long vendor responses, followed by feature/function demos.

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Excel, ERP and Legacy Apps, Oh My! What Technology is Supporting Your S&OP Process?

Kinaxis

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. On the other hand, the fact that so many turn to Excel is proof that despite the plentitude of systems (or perhaps because of it), existing ERP and legacy planning apps are not meeting the requirements for S&OP processes regardless of where that process is positioned on the maturity curve. So what’s wrong with Excel?

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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. Manufacturing manufacturing operations excellence

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6 step purchasing plan example for your yearly business purchases

Silver Lynx Supply Chain

You need a purchasing plan! Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. Imagine having the luxury to completely assess all the options without rushing to purchase.

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6 step purchasing plan example for your yearly business purchases

Silver Lynx Supply Chain

You need a purchasing plan! Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. Imagine having the luxury to completely assess all the options without rushing to purchase.

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Steps to Take to Buy Bitcoin Crypto!

Supply Chain Game Changer

How to Buy Your First Bitcoin! Buy Bitcoin Crypto article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. Everyone wants to invest their money somewhere where the investment is safe and provides excellent returns. Buying bitcoin is not a hard-working procedure.

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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? My second observation is that for 96% of public companies supply chain excellence is slip-sliding away. Reflections on Excellence.

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People in Manufacturing: Procurement

QAD

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running.

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5 Spooky Excel Error Tales That Could Become Your Nightmare

Arkieva

A serious Excel error could cost a business thousands or millions of dollars. Here are 5 Spooky Excel Tales that we hope never becomes your nightmare. While it’s not clear if the entire error was caused as a result of Excel, the use of manual, siloed systems such as Excel makes it difficult if not impossible for companies to create a fully integrated system that provides real-time updates from all departments and business units.

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10 Greatest Purchasing Books Ever Written

Supply Chain Opz

What are the essential purchasing books you should read? In this article, we will uncover the best purchasing books to help you get the edge over competition. Background Historically, purchasing people are considered a kind of clerical workers who are expected to perform basic tasks such as document issuance and price negotiation. Now companies of all sizes realize how purchasing can help creating competitive advantage.

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7 Signs of Excellent Procurement Teams!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Excellence, or superiority, is often the goal in corporate organizations. Each and every function, within its own right, strives for excellence and achievement in order for a company to collectively grow, evolve, and thrive. Achieving excellence seldom comes easy. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. The last decade is a testimonial that functional excellence does not drive value. When a person suddenly hits or jams their toe, it hurts.

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Maximize Your TMS Investment with Excellent Customer Support

Talking Logistics

Deciding to buy a transportation management system (TMS) is a big decision and there are a lot of factors to consider. The post Maximize Your TMS Investment with Excellent Customer Support appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. One area of consideration that, at times, can be overlooked is the type of customer support the company will provide after implementation. This is an important question because it can impact the ability to maximize a TMS investment.

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In Focus: 5 Factors To Consider On The “Build Vs Buy” Decision on Last-Mile Software Solution

Locus

However, should a business invest their capital in building and maintaining their solution from scratch, or simply purchase an off-the-shelf solution? Below are key takeaways from the session “ Buy vs Build? Consumer expectations around last-mile fulfillment are their peak.

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In Focus: 5 Factors To Consider On The “Build Vs Buy” Decision on Last-Mile Software Solution

Locus

However, should a business invest their capital in building and maintaining their solution from scratch, or simply purchase an off-the-shelf solution? Below are key takeaways from the session “Buy vs Build? Consumer expectations around last-mile fulfillment are their peak.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost. Demand Supply Chain Excellence Supply Chain Leadership Uncategorized COVID-19 pandemic

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The Journey of Supply Chain Excellence

Logility

You’ll note in the headline I use the preposition “of” instead of “to” when describing the “journey of Supply Chain Excellence.” The differentiator is whether Supply Chain Excellence is defined as a one-time project or as on ongoing process. The implementation of a new supply chain solution is an important step toward realizing Supply Chain Excellence.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. Supply Chain Supply chain excellence Supply Chain Excellence Supply Chain Leadership driving supply chain excellence supply chain financeIt has been awhile.