Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Network Design Software 
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 16, 2014
Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. My goal is to understand the impact of technologies and processes. Today, we have a number of burning platforms. It is easier said than done.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The supply chain technology market is responding.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 10, 2025
Technology can change or even improve work. We are not designing work with the human factor in mind. The goal of human factor process design is to make it easy for employees to do the right thing (and hard to do the wrong thing). What’s missing? A recognition of the reality of the current state.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 26, 2025
Traditionally, companies focus on the use of enterprise data — orders and shipments, which usually has a two- to four-week demand latency (the time from channel purchase to order receipt) and a 2-to 3-month market latency (the time from the market trigger to the translation into an order). Outsourced manufacturing had a bullwhip of 8-9.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. The culture is dominated by “lifers” and technology investment is conservative. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 29, 2014
The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 27, 2022
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. Yet, the models depict traditional supply chain software deployments. Looks similar to McKinsey, right?
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