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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

I laugh when business leaders tell me that they are going to replace their current supply chain planning technologies with “AI.” Each supply chain planning technology at the end of 2024, went through disruption–change in CEO, business model shift, layoffs, re-platforming and acquisitions. The reason?

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

My head is wobbling with announcements, late-night Friday press releases, company name changes, and executive turnover in the supply chain planning market. Logility, a conservative company supply chain planning technology, historically had no debt and cash reserves of more than 80M, is undervalued in this deal.

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, in supply chain planning, this could not be further from reality. In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. The reason?

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Turn Off the Fog Machine: Move Past Groupthink to Drive A Positive, Data-Driven Narrative

Supply Chain Shaman

Why can’t we put the same energy that we put into inventing new words, tossing around acronyms, and parading on a stage to advocate for maturity models to improve supply chains? Supply chain concepts follow hype cycles. They both exist in supply chain circles. Do we have the right narrative?

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Step Past AI Hype Drive Real Value

Supply Chain Shaman

(Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. The supply chain planner role is the most dissatisfied of any employee in the supply chain, but most focus on improving engines using AI into conventional work processes. This will not help.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

” At that time, the sales organization used more point-of-sale data than their competitors, they had an impressive and innovative IT team, and their supply chain processes were what I considered best-in-class. The use of the supply chain as a functional organization within the organization to reduce costs.

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Custom Logistics Software: Building Smarter Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

Modern supply chain operations demand exceptional efficiency in order to achieve market competitiveness. The necessary elements of agility and specificity along with scalability make these systems valuable for building smarter supply chains that are more resilient. The solution exists in custom-built software development.