Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I I never republished the report, because not enough has changed to warrant it.) The report centers on the concept of moving from inside-out to outside-in technologies. Let’s start with a definition of concurrency.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. You need to examine revenue, cost and margin impacts of every scenario under consideration.

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Logility

JANUARY 25, 2022

ATLANTA – January 25, 2022 – According to PWC’s December 2021 Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey , about half of respondents consciously consider factors related to sustainability when making purchasing decisions. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC. Logility, Inc.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

This morning, the New York Times pushed me an article by Peter S. Let’s face it our historic practices for demand planning create waste in a more variable world. The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda.

Waste Reduction

GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we? Will they make all of us obsolete someday?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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? These are three examples: Rule 3.1:

Waste Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

First, to launch on government approval of a new drug. Ipsen purchased the RapidResponse supply chain planning product from Kinaxis. The Kinaxis solution also provides robust decision support for their S&OP process. Our culture is to never fail.”. Ipsen had two additional goals.

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Today hurricane Nate’s north winds are pushing against the bayous of Louisiana. Today’s demand processes are inside-out. In today’s architectures, there is no place to put outside-in data like VMI, Point of Sale (POS) or rating/review data. Today’s demand management processes have many issues.

Supply and Demand

ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

Gartner analyst Debashis Tarafdar says that the large size of a country (like India, China or Indonesia) can mean “significant polarization of population between urban and rural with distinctly different buying capabilities and purchasing preferences. Read the full Cipla Medpro case study on delivering medicines in Africa.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

MAY 14, 2025

How to Turn Your Data into a Strategic Asset for Business Transformation Every business generates vast amounts of data daily, from customer interactions and sales transactions to supply chain movements and employee productivity metrics. Let’s explore the critical steps in this journey.

Procurement Analytics

Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Analysts at Gartner predict circular economies will replace today’s wasteful linear economies over the next decade or so. Circular economic business models encourage continuous reuse of materials to minimize waste and the demand for additional natural resource consumption.”[2]. The world’s waste problem.

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The monthly cycle of S&OP meetings has been the forum in which a firm’s forecasts have been presented and reconciled across functional areas. Automation of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, including self-selecting machine-learning models for a library of predefined problems.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Years ago, I saw a statistic that many people do not purchase a fire extinguisher for their residences until after they experience an actual incident. In an age of increased disruption, it’s no longer just about corporate profits but public safety as well. The same concept works for business and manufacturing.

Manufacturing Procurement

DynaSys

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For purchased products, you must factor in the capability and limitations of external suppliers to meet the requirements. The co-ordination of all these planning activities across the enterprise is the role of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) or Sales & Operations Planning ( S&OP ). Cutting Transportation Costs.

Optimal Sourcing

Vinculum

APRIL 15, 2020

Business organizations can purchase information from the databases of business data providers. Organizations can classify information to highlight crucial suppliers by using advanced analytical approaches and network mapping. Businesses can use advanced analytical forecasting tools to produce realistic forecasts.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

To help you determine what tactics, processes, technologies and practices are a must-have in a winning supply chain strategy, we reached out to a panel of supply chain professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What’s the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy?”

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But planning isn’t just the start; it’s the very foundation of effective inventory control. These responsibilities extend across functions and when properly exercised, comprise supply, demand, distribution, production, purchasing and capacity planning. Governance and Process. Elements of Good Inventory Planning.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

Least attention is paid to this category for the purpose of stock control and planning and procurement decisions for such items may be automated. Acknowledgement: In purchasing, acknowledgement is the term used to describe a suppliers confirmation that the buyers purchase order has been received, and hence, that the order is accepted.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. ” Let’s set the stage. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative. What to do? Drive change.

Procurement Analytics

ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2018

The traditional merchandise planning model consists of deciding what to carry and then calculating what will sell. But omnichannel retail is causing retailers to revisit practices like this and explore a new approach that flips the sequence, using analytics to first determine what is likelier to sell, then deciding what to carry.

Inventory Reduction

6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Building supply chain resilience isn’t a new goal, but it’s become a primary focus for supply chain leaders in the wake of the pandemic crisis, particularly in the hardest-hit industries, such as food and beverage. Develop a clearly defined risk mitigation governance structure. ” — Michael Varney and Wil G.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

The official Earth Day web site provides the following history of the Day’s origins: “ Senator Gaylord Nelson, a junior senator from Wisconsin, had long been concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States. The BCG/WEF report identified nine key actions companies can take to become more sustainable.

Gartner

Enterra Insights

JULY 8, 2020

” During each episode, the show’s stars, Old Smokey and Josh Macuga, explore history through old foods that have survived for a long time. The labeling is the manufacturer’s best estimation based on taste or whatever else, and it is not scientifically proven. It’s a big problem.

Manufacturing Procurement

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the short-term, Cecere recommends investing “in new forms of analytics to improve visibility and prescriptive analytics.” For that reason, Cecere recommends emphasizing S&OP planning and execution. She writes, “Few companies are good at S&OP execution. Stop planning in isolation.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

I am hoping to start a discussion by laying down the ABCD(s) of an excellent supply chain. After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Generally speaking, they are risk averse and try to be predictable and reliable. Read More ».

Inventory Reduction

Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2021

The IoB can gather, combine and process data from many sources including: Commercial customer data; citizen data processed by public-sector and government agencies; social media; public domain deployments of facial recognition; and location tracking. The second performs processing and analytics in a decentralized manner.

Modeling Software

Enterra Insights

MAY 24, 2022

Because “Z” has become a cult-like symbol for supporting Vladimir Putin’s war. … The Z has never been associated with Mr. A brand halo signals to other like-minded consumers the brand should be trusted, valued — and, most importantly, purchased.” The Rising Generation. ”[6].

Russia