Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

As a supply chain leader, he is struggling how to dance in the ring of fire. Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. The focus by Anne, the CIO, is on the deployment of an outdated ERP system purchased five years ago. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2024

In this research, 81% of brand owners and contract manufacturers primarily depend on communication through email and spreadsheets. Approximately 32% of manufacturing, across industries, is outsourced. Shipment data is the most important, but we have not figured out how to best move logistics network data across trading partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. As a result, organizations struggle with how to move forward. His struggle is how to make data discovery, mining, and wrangling into day-to-day processes.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. That''s why we ask our experts a very simple question " How to improve the operational efficiency in global supply chain? ".

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Yes, there is a great opportunity, but the question is how to jump. How to get started? Technology providers focus on serving the planner, but I find that they are blind to the larger requirements of how to serve the organization better. How do I improve the plan? Guess what? Adding more planners is not the answer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Here are some examples: Manufacturing: Lowest manufacturing cost, Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and Asset Utilization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Technology can automate role-based views up and down the river of demand for all roles: marketing, sales, finance, manufacturing, procurement, transportation, and human resources.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 24, 2025

To remain competitive, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must adapt by embracing advanced forecasting technologies and strategies that incorporate real-time data, AI and advanced analytics to improve accuracy in todays dynamic market. The quest for efficiency often leads manufacturers to adopt the “pearl chain” model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

An enlightened leadership team wanted to be sure that the organization knew how to make money through bi-directional orchestration of the bill of materials. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. When asked how to drive interoperability, I replied, “There is no good template. Where are the business models that help buyers to rethink processes to gain insights on how to drive value based on these technological advancements?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. Let’s learn from the past to unlearn to rethink supply chain excellence. We do not know how to walk the talk. I shook my head in disgust at the waste in the process.

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IQMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bottom Line : In 2021 and beyond, customers are voting with their dollars for the manufacturers who excel at sustainable manufacturing and make a positive contribution to the environment, dominating B2B supply chains and B2C purchasing decisions. Sustainability Is The Cornerstone Of Manufacturing Competitiveness.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So, I smile, catch my dinner partner’s eye and ask, “In our prior conversations, you mentioned the lack of clarity on the definition of supply chain excellence in your current deployments and how this is a barrier to implementing supply chain planning properly. “ Reflection. Were the plans feasible?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants. These are authoritative identiers. Close this gap.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In my last blog post, I shared insights on data synchronization between brand owners and contract manufacturing. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party. days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. Ed argued that instead of buying new packaging equipment that we should work with R&D to have a base flavor and add the color and flavoring at the head of the machine. The idea was so novel and counter to my project direction that I did not know how to react.

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IQMS

JULY 29, 2022

As a manufacturing business grows, production schedulers juggle more complex customer orders, expedited orders, backlogs, budgeting time for equipment refurbishment, container deliveries, logistics, and supply chain allocations. They also include items manufactured internally and through third-party vendors and sub-assemblies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<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. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Over the next several weeks, I’ll outline these issues and discuss some ideas around how to avoid these practices. So how does a poor S&OP process cost money? How about excellent planning?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. How value chain activities are carried out determines costs and affects profits.”

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

Instead of high-level frameworks, attendees heard directly from global manufacturers including RHI Magnesita, Teleflex, and Marelli. It established a command center in Ireland, staffed by internal experts, which later evolved into a permanent Center of Excellence. The agenda prioritized outcomes over abstraction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. And how do we measure it? (Is Or planned orders to purchase orders?) Using FVA and calculating the bullwhip effect helps companies understand how to drive improvement. Or a similar comparison of customer orders or planned orders?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin. Don’t get me wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). They understand how to shape demand to maximize profit. We have built transactional buying relationships.

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My Office Apps

JANUARY 16, 2024

Start Your Year with Cloud-Based ERP: The Ultimate Guide to Operational Excellence Begin your year on a transformative note by embracing the power of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Operational Excellence with Cloud-Based ERP Procurement Management Efficiently manage your procurement processes with ERP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence? When it comes to how our products are produced, our Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP) set these standards.

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QAD

JANUARY 23, 2025

In 2025, however, QAD Director of Product Marketing Michael Ochi predicts that will change as more businesses discover how to move beyond experimentation and pilot projects to deliver tangible results. For manufacturers, early deployment can also open the door to monetizing the data they generate, especially when it comes to B2B sales.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Data is a crucial component of digital transformation in the manufacturing sector. Many manufacturers aren’t maximizing the value from enriching data and missing out on opportunities to grow, optimize or manage risk. Here are 3 ways manufacturers can monetize data and increase efficiency: 1. Create new revenue models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Today’s supply chain—with greater outsourcing, global manufacturing, and complex bill of materials–requires synchronization of the links.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. The method you choose depends on what you’ll use it for and how long. Manufacturers and renters of industrial tents allow customization, too. When To Buy. When To Rent.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Alexandros Skandalakis – the Director Global Manufacturing Capacity, Strategic Assets and Capital Expenditures at Philip Morris Products S.A. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements. Some may be used by the digital marketing teams for marketing purposes, but the average company does not know how to use it. It is piling up on the doorsteps of most major companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. We will never redesign healthcare for better outcomes if we do not redesign the buy/sell relationship and improve the understanding of the service providers on why supply chain matters. It will also impact the factory with a redesign for digital manufacturing.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2019

Planners need to contend with inconsistent consumer buying behavior, the need to satisfy multiple channels, complex sourcing options and proliferating “sub-seasons,” collections and assortments. Establish In-Season Excellence to Maximize Sell-through. Apparel is an exciting and rapidly changing industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

are working on a“if all you have is a hammer, all you see is nails” problem – they have been making boxed, canned and otherwise shelf-stable packaged food for well over a century but now consumers and retailers are looking for fresh foods and they don’t know how to adapt. In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Shippers that fail to consider the implications of returns by refusing to give customers information about returns costs and procedures before purchase could risk alienating up to 67 percent of shoppers. As a result, manufacturers may choose to work with other resellers.

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