Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. At Dow, Mr. Baker had Purchasing experience in raw materials, and logistics for their plastics supply chain. This replaced an Excel based, part-by-part approach.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

On Wednesday morning, when I finished speaking at the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing in Fort Lauderdale, an executive from J&J pulled me aside and said, “Our strengths, are now our vulnerabilities.” Likewise, this is not something you can expect from partnering with SAP, Oracle or Infor. Many feel overwhelmed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order.

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Bristlecone

MAY 31, 2020

NEW SAP-QUALIFIED PARTNER-PACKAGED SOLUTIONS. Bristlecone has introduced several new fixed-price, fixed-scope offerings for SAP products across supply chain planning, procurement and execution. Procurement Center of Excellence creation for discrete manufacturer. Application support and monitoring for corporate apparel leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

Dependency on Excel. Due to the shortfalls in the evolution of Advanced Planning, 68% of business users use Excel spreadsheets as the primary mechanism for planning. This is especially true for processes dependent on the ERP-based solutions from Infor, Oracle and SAP. Driving supply chain excellence is a balancing act.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The third issue is the lack of understanding that global processes–to maximize the economies of scale in transportation and material buying–need strong governance. Without this discipline, the global organization cannot actualize buying power in procurement or lower costs and improve costs/customer service in transportation.

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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

MARCH 12, 2019

This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. Most deployments focus on functional excellence–manufacturing, transportation, customer service or procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. At the time, the company started internal discussions on re-footprinting the organization and deploying SAP across manufacturing centers. However, localized sourcing shortened leadtimes and improve responsiveness.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

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? In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint. The solution failed.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

They have been touted as the key to manufacturing excellence and supply chain integration… But what is the real ROI on ERP system implementation? Our research also found that organizations selecting a large provider (SAP) had improved outcomes relative to users of Oracle, other ERP systems, and no ERP system.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers. According to a paper by Len Prokopets and Ramin Tabibzadeh from Archstone Consulting , initial sourcing transactions can yield a 5% savings.

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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. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. The River of Demand. #3

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

The Internet was still in its infancy (it had about 100K hosts connecting roughly a million people), the Macintosh Portable was released (weighing 16 pounds and costing $6500), and Microsoft Excel (a mainstay of S&OP) was just four years old. Dependency on Excel. That doesn’t mean buying the first shiny thing you see.

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HICX Solutions

MAY 13, 2020

“No one ever got fired for buying IBM,” so the saying goes, meaning it’s generally safer to go with a household name when you’re in the market for new technology. And given the speed of technological development, is buying a procurement suite really the ‘safe’ option today?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2017

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. This included the testing of new technologies like cognitive computing, blockchain, open source analytics, and Internet of Things (IOT). Current State of Hands-Free Orders.

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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). We have built transactional buying relationships. Yes; someday it will happen, but not any time soon.

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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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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Maverick buying . Fit for Purpose’ buying channels with guided buying . The way how these needs are managed are defined as buying channels. Buying channels take into account different product characteristics (e.g. Buying channels take into account different product characteristics (e.g.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. getting buy-in from drivers and other stakeholders) and implementing appropriate metrics to measure and drive performance.). If you’re a manufacturer or retailer, you can track market supply and demand and leverage the data to build supply chain resilience with diversified sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Most demand planning happens in Excel Ghettos not in the expensive technologies implemented in 90% of manufacturing companies. Test new solutions against the traditional demand sensing providers of E2open (Terra Technology), SAP and ToolsGroup. Demand latency is the time from channel purchase to translation into an order.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. SmartGridEdge – Smart Grid Management. | Main | Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices » The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Management Consulting.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Retailer Multi-Channel Operations Capabilities Get an Early Test in the 2011 Holiday Buying Season | Main | Fraud vs Customer Centricity - III » Layaway and Buy Now Pay Later Payment Options!

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

No Purchase Orders were used. Cutting the Right Costs with Technology by Sourcing Innovation. VMI is an excellent option for many dealers and distributors as it has the ability to increase inventory turns, reduce customer returns, reduce administrative costs and reduce lost sales. We only paid for fasteners as we used them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. At the time, the company started internal discussions on re-footprinting the organization and deploying SAP across manufacturing centers. However, localized sourcing shortened leadtimes and improve responsiveness.

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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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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 25, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « How to make Preventive Maintenance a way of life in SAP APO Support Projects - Part 2 | Main | Multi - channel commerce in Europe - the next frontier for Retailers? Management Consulting. Technology Services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Many teams will fight to gain recognition that anything which is not labeled SAP or Oracle will be good for the supply chain. source Moody’s). Challenging the Status Quo.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Collaborative Platform for Enterprise of Future | Main | Key Asset Management trends in Oil & Gas Industry » Importance of Proactive Master Data Maintenance in SAP SCM Support. Supply Excellence.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Mr. Lelarge is responsible for sourcing materials and services for constructing cutting-edge e-charging stations and overseeing the delivery logistics from suppliers to Electra's warehouse. he had firsthand experience with the software and had no doubt Precoro would also be an excellent fit for Electra. "I'm a key user.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. We are familiar with the concept of buying online books, electronic goods, gift articles, apparels. But do we purchase grocery online (excluding the perishables) in India. Management Consulting. Customer Service.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

You will need to excel at managing and accelerating the 3-D Cycle, if you want to win in digital economy. Walmart has been on an incredible acquisition and partnership spree, recently buying Flipkart and, as early as two years ago, partnering with JD.com. Logility recently purchased Halo which embeds ML.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. This is disruptive innovation. I was a skeptic.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 24, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Confluence of IT and Business Strategy for a Transformation program | Main | SAP acquired Ariba, what does it mean for the on-demand, procurement and SAP world? Management Consulting. Technology Services.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. » The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments. The most visible headline involves the worlds largest electronics retailer Best Buy.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Online sales have been growing at double-digit rates and the implications profoundly point to the reality that consumers prefer online tools and have shifted their shopping and buying preferences. Management Consulting.

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