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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 race started in 2016 as a foggy definition of digital appeared in supply chain marketing from technology providers. For example, deeper analytics into poorly implemented planning systems makes terrible decisions faster.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in Figure 2, there are many variants of visibility. Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In contrast, visibility does not. This is a form of visibility.) In my experience, usually only 1/3 of data needed for visibility is transactional data.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I strongly believe that leaders must build their supply chains with new building blocks. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. This requires bi-directional communication between trading partners in the value chain. Bio-engineering?

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Building the Network of Networks: Some Insights

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain process and financial flows often run in counter currents. Two years ago, I completed a research study on supply chain visibility. The term “visibility” lacks a common definition within the industry. Supply Chain Visibility Gaps. The reason is simple.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

I also shared with them my view that companies will ultimately find opportunities for supply chain innovation at the intersection of Software, B2B Connectivity, and Social Networking — a trend best illustrated by the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCONs). What benefits are they achieving?

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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How to Set Corporate Goals for Supply Chain ESG

SupplyShift

For example, in 2019, 90% of companies listed on the S&P 500® index issued an annual sustainability report, compared to just under 20% in 2011. These KPIs should target specific supply chain issues that roll up to overarching sustainability goals.