Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Few, if any, analysts are predicting fair winds and following seas for supply chains this year. Recently, Thibaud Molin , a partner at the KYU, told reporters at a press conference, “The world has entered a zone of uncertainty.”[1] Industry journalist Camille Rustici provides an excellent overview of many of those risks.[2]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

I am speaking to companies that are being held hostage to SAP HANA upgrades with 70% cost overruns and 60% time schedule expansion. Similarly, SAP Ariba frustration is mounting in the market. Yet, the IT team is still mandating SAP standardization. For many, mandating SAP is job security for the IT implementation team.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Almost two decades of reporting. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) Over the last seven years, the failure of the SAP APO migration to SAP IBP and the general deficiencies in ERP planning solutions gave headwinds to the best-of-breed supply chain planning market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 30, 2018

One of our newest SCRC partners, Siemens Building Technologies, recently shared their insights on creating an analytics strategy. This effort was led by the Chief Procurement Officer for Siemens BT, Carl Oberland, but has recently been rolled out across the global organization. What is digital governance and stewardship?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues. The team was seeking analytics to monitor process compliance. Visibility Maturity Model.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. A Brief History of IT Investments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Competition : The aggressive marketing of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors introducing planning suites (led by SAP with a product named SAP APO) took the market off course. It did not matter that most of them had integrated to SAP suites for over a decade. All of the results are reported in aggregate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. The transformational wave is slowly transforming the automotive industry from a focus on selling “rides” versus the purchase of an automobile.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear. Here are my thoughts: 1) Failure of the Industry Analyst Model. It is complex.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As shown in Figure 1, the biggest obstacles to power improvement/performance are traditional supply chain thinking, the lack of organizational alignment and a focus on functional excellence. Seven Predictions for Supply Chain 2030. I believe that SAP will miss the mark and fail, and then quickly recover. (No Action Item.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. If you do a google search, you will find lots of accolades and positive press on the acquisition of SmartOps by SAP, but the Shaman is a skeptic. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006. I should have followed my intuition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

I manage a team at Supply Chain Insights and actively publish using an Open Content research model. This Tuesday we will publish our 87th report, and our 167th podcast, in our 36th newsletter. One of the barriers to greater progress in driving supply chain excellence is the current state of user satisfaction with current technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. For access to the report on business networks reference this r eport. ” Smiling and nodding in agreement, he said, “ It is frustrating,” He continued, “Why is SAP not doing more with Ariba? The gaps are large.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

They need to run various reports, including some for the FDA, which is challenging. They also would like to automate the purchase order process and vendor management. Its powerful reporting tools make it simple for them to provide the required reports to the FDA. Before: Everything they do is Excel-based.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., ERP systems are designed to integrate transactions from finance, human resources, procurement, operations, sales and marketing, logistics, and other functions in a firm.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 30, 2016

You could assess impacts to inventory, margin, cost of sales, new purchases, capacity…all within seconds, all within a single system. Some sites have SAP, others have Oracle. Supply Chain Analytics – Having the data isn’t much use if you can’t do anything with it. Compare that to traditional supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. These are my thoughts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle.

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Locus

APRIL 6, 2023

Enter the era of AI-driven logistics solutions , far removed from the traditional, clunky methods of managing supply chains on Excel sheets, replete with manual data entry and limited routing capabilities. Onfleet’s route optimization and analytics tools help companies trim delivery times, cut costs, and enhance overall efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

A recent report by the ACE European Group identifies supply chains as of the biggest sources of concern for European businesses today. On the other hand, there is a rising need for smarter and more flexible tools as well as more staff with analytical capabilities. Is analytics playing a role in innovation?

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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). The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Sadly, I find each to have a limited view of supply chain analytics. Is it a coincidence that process industry leaders have standardized on SAP and blindly followed the SAP IT-centric definition of supply chain automation without holding SAP accountable to build effective supply chain solutions for the extended value network?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Digitising processes provides transparency of these operational processes and will deliver reliable data, allowing manufacturers to make more effective business decisions to maximise productivity and drive operational excellence. Unleashed Software’s Business Intelligence tools are a case in point.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2017

When the report published, it stimulated many conversations. Examples include E2open, Elemica, GT Nexus (now owned by INFOR ), and SAP Ariba. As shown in Figure 2, few orders and purchase orders flow hands-free. We will use this in our December meeting to define a mission/charter and governance model.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2014

” These CIOs are more aligned with identifying “one throat to choke” and often they have bought into the theory that supply chain solutions from their ERP provider are robust and well integrated based on the latest technology industry analyst report. All of the results are reported in aggregate. I did not see it.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 11, 2017

It is obvious that the level of domain expertise and knowledge has contributed to a new class of trade promotion execution; and I have sympathy for the manufacturers who will be making decisions about TPx solution purchases in the next few years. planning, optimization, settlement, analytics, etc.) User Interfaces. Beautiful.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2014

” These CIOs are more aligned with identifying “one throat to choke” and often they have bought into the theory that supply chain solutions from their ERP provider are robust and well integrated based on the latest technology industry analyst report. All of the results are reported in aggregate. I did not see it.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Rémi Lelarge, the Head of Procurement and Logistics at Electra, shared their story of building a comprehensive procurement process with Precoro. The startup that immediately chose Precoro For the first few months after Electra was founded, like many startups, the team had a manual procurement process and used spreadsheets.

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