Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. Agents: Robotic agents, agent-based optimization, and chatbots formulate suggested actions from query, market shifts, or exceptions. How do I train and maintain the logic?” The business network market is in need of innovation.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. L’Oréal’s global strategy embraces globalization with a keen focus on the customer. The Company’s strategy is to acquire brands developed on a local or regional scale and then bring them to a global scale in a short period of time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Instead, we need to Jump.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. The Salesforce.com model is primarily a pipeline management tool suitable for discrete markets but not process manufacturers. Will this change the market?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. The group needed a clear market signal on consumption patterns and the translation of demand with minimal latency to optimize price, mix, and schedule the factory to manage margin. To illustrate, let me share a story.

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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. Purchase order data, while not as important, has the smallest gap. Seldom do you see this addressed in enterprise strategies.

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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. The concept was that managing trade-offs and optimizing the whole to drive business outcomes would improve value. The ripple effects are pervasive. Why is a reinvention needed?

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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. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. A manufacturing capability is not ubiquitous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often see statements like “move from a functional-silo’d focus to a drive a more holistic response.” ” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?”

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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. Note the lack of training on next-generation supply chain thinking in Figure 1. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The Rubikloud acquisition was a $60M cash purchase.

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IQMS

MAY 15, 2024

Navigating the intricate web of modern manufacturing can feel like participating in an elaborate puzzle—complex, with lots of moving parts and a grand strategy that need to fit into a complete picture of the business. Growth Strategies for Small and Midsize Manufacturing Companies 1.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence. This article delves into how these two elements, working together, can transform procurement strategies into long-term competitive advantages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. How Do You Define Excellence? I admit it. Lora was as well.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Richard is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. About Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. Greenscreens.ai’s dynamic pricing infrastructure built to grow and protect margins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In a recent research project, we found that 2/3 of companies had a digital supply chain transformation strategy; however, those that were evolving their strategy performed better during the early months of the pandemic than those that were “clear” on the project plan for a digital transformation. I know, a head-scratcher.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Medical Device manufacturers face an increasingly dynamic and intricate landscape. Innovative personalized manufacturing approaches have emerged, yet many organizations struggle to fully realize their potential in this rapidly evolving race.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies. It had been a long night. However, I had little time to be tired. ” I smiled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. By leveraging analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs), manufacturers can optimize inventory, reduce waste, and boost profitability. In this post, well dive into six critical KPIs that influence inventory optimization. But what exactly should you measure?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 13, 2025

The food and beverage industry is a dynamic, ever-evolving sector in which manufacturers are continuously seeking ways to optimize production and reduce costs in the face of shifting consumer demand and preferences. Optimizing production is essential to addressing these challenges.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Contract Manufacturing Signal Latency. In our research, we find that 32% of volume is manufactured by a third party.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

” As I dipped my spoon into some scrumptious chestnut soup at a great restaurant, my companion asked, “With the advancements in optimization and self-learning, aren’t we close to having self-driving supply chains?” The perspective of a manufacturing leader is quite different than that of a business leader in logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Commerce is global and regional at the same time, the world is getting smaller and more interconnected, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in this build-anywhere and sell-anywhere market. The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times. Technology integration: Leveraging digital tools to enhance visibility and decision-making.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. Let’s zoom to the bottom line: the results are less than optimal for all the monies spent and practices deployed. For this blog post, never mind the comparison.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As a result, most projects are not clear in scope, with the implementation of visibility as a “functional extension to existing process” lacking a holistic outside-in approach/strategy to sense, respond, and act. Design an Over-Arching Strategy and Building Blocks. Build a multi-year visibility strategy. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 26, 2023

The basic frame of supply chain planning–functional taxonomies for optimization on a relational database–must be redesigned before supply chain leaders can reap the benefit of deep learning, neural networks, and evolving forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Graph architectures also use different optimization technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. This large food manufacturer used a popular technology to forecast monthly using orders as an input. The strategy day owner was a global process center of excellence leader.

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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. Strong manufacturing organizations do not make the most effective manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

But when ARC has done writing on SCCN, we have written about how this solution set can help a company optimize its own supply chain operations. A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. will lead to ecosystem planning and optimization application suites. But something called ERP 4.0

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

When I hear companies discussing the implementation of a customer segmentation strategy, I ask a series of questions: Who is your customer? How do they buy from you? What are you trying to accomplish through the execution of a customer segmentation strategy? How do they buy from you?” Why does it matter to you?

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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. Gerhard noted that initial training, which relied heavily on external consultants, failed to drive sufficient engagement. To date, more than 700 employees have been trained.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The promise was the delivery of a decision support system that would allow the organization to optimize the relationships between cash, cost and customer service against the strategy. To drive maximize the value of planning, organizations need to be aligned against an operating strategy. This leads to a sub-optimal response.

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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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