Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On Friday, I presented an overview of outside-in planning to a consulting group. Over the next five weeks, seventy business/technology and consulting leaders will complete the course. They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). The reason?

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

And next to impossible is creating plans in a timely manner when monitoring unrelated KPIs across multiple disconnected sources of data. While historically easier said than done, this goal can be attained through a modern supply chain platform that enables flexible scenario planning across strategic, operational, and lead-time horizons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The ability of an organization to deliver reliable and consistent results for revenue, margin, customer service, and quality in the face of demand and supply variability. No technology in the market measures inventory health. I would then consider taking five actions: Build on the Power of Existing Networks. Yes, I think so.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 25, 2018

As advances in technology make it more cost-effective to deploy IIoT, industries will need to acquire a strategic approach to integrating new sensor data with pre-existing data environments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

(If the industry were grounded in truth in advertising repercussions, there would be far fewer signs in the airports from consultants and technology providers.). I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. Shifts in Technology. Background. They did it.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides an update on Logility’s previously announced acquisition of a start-up supply chain network design provider, and how this form of technology has become increasingly important to supply chain management teams. . Evolution of Supply Chain Network Design Technology. Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

During the pandemic, companies struggled with planning systems turning off the optimizers, and using the technology as a system of record. Companies driving digital transformation did not outperform their peer groups during the past three years. Show the technology vendors touting digital and AI transformation the door.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. ” Companies know they have a problem with adopting new technologies, but they do not have clear answers on what to do next.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” What is the issue?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Chris Lewis, EVP Supply Chain at Ahold Delhaize Retail Business Services, and Mike Khodl, VP, Differentiated Technologies at Dematic , participated in an ARC Advisory Group event discussing this transformation. Sources of Efficiency. Final Word.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 30, 2020

The approaches and technologies deployed before March 2020 are now legacy. They are seldom cross-functional to optimize source, make, and deliver together. The implementation of marketing and sales technologies made sales and marketing processes more efficient, but not market-driven. The difference? Recommendation. For example.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 12, 2020

Strong opinions and egos (mostly male) abound… For over two decades, I obediently tapped my foot to technology leaders’ glibly spouting opinions. The source of this data is a syndicated data provider of public reporting termed “Y-Charts.”). Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods. Network Design.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership. Wonder Group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

While most consultants and technologists want to sell technology, and are eager to slap in a new piece of software, my caution is to slow down and better understand root issues before having a technology discussion. When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Many try to start with technology. Network Design Analysis.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Supply chain technology industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Founder Bob Ferrari provides added perspectives and highlights to last week’s announced acquisition of Starboard Solutions by Logility. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others. Added Highlights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

Her focus was on technology implementation. In contrast, the design of ERP-based systems is functional efficiency. The solutions optimize source, make and deliver within silos, but lack the ability to drive alignment and improve agility. She had not mapped demand flows or studied the impact of network design strategies.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With almost 30 million customers, BT (British Telecom) is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

The MIT perspective is that of a new generation of analytical tools in areas of optimization, simulation and data science provide an opportunity to deploy, manage or modify a more data-driven supply chain process. . Conference Highlights. consumption needs in emergency conditions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. It was hard for me to rationalize the world of manufacturing that was deliberate and designed versus the emerging practices in supply chain. Supply chain design looks very different by company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, this mature team found the technology insufficient. They gave lip service to the need for IT standardization, but ran their process on a custom built model that enabled reverse bill of material, and profitability analysis. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.)

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Talking Logistics

JULY 24, 2015

Descartes Acquires MK Data Services LLC. LEGACY Supply Chain Services Launches Grader Tool and eBook to Evaluate Supply Chain Performance. For related commentary, see A New Era for Global Trade Management Software? UPS Said to Be in Talks to Buy Coyote Logistics for $1.8 Billion (Bloomberg).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Build an internal team to continually design and redesign flows holistically using the factors of today’s inefficiencies. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Slowly, as shown in the image of the consumer value network, supply chain leaders expand the scope of their supply chain operations from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier with a clear view on the customer. In our research, the network design maturity model shown in Table 1 is helpful to many of our clients.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 1, 2014

Sourcing and manufacturing lead times. We have already discussed in this global fashion retail series about network design and inventory location in Chapter 1 and stores replenishment in Chapter 2. In this chapter we want to take a more upstream view to discuss about sourcing and manufacturing lead times.

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Bristlecone

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To build resiliency into supply chains and sourcing operations, businesses must deploy a one-two punch: a strong supply chain network design and smart use of technology. Supply chains are not used to handling low-probability, high-impact events,” said Dhaval Buch, Group Technology President at Mahindra.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. I have been an industry analyst covering the market– Gartner, AMR Research, Altimeter Group and my own company Supply Chain Insights– since 2001. Here I share my world view. Moving Forward.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Manage Make, Source, and Deliver Together. The design, and redesign, of supply chains needs to be continuous based on market data. Invest in network design technologies. Build an internal team to continually design and redesign flows holistically using the factors of today’s inefficiencies. What to do?

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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.” Challenge them to build new capabilities working with innovative technology leaders. Strategy to Network Design.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, our research arm , has just shared an overview of what supply chain management teams should anticipate in 2023 , as a prelude to our annual predictions advisory report that will publish in January. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

Tools in the sandbox have been carefully picked and open to enhancements as it need to be built with bridges. These tools should organize in such a way to deliver interim milestone results and data collection itself is progressive and matched to identically required in the respective digital twin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The discussions are with groups of executives—often ex-management consultants. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2022

ATLANTA (August 24, 2022) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, and software license revenues were $0.3 Professional services and other revenues for the quarter ended July 31, 2022 increased 5% to $10.0 Company and Technology. About American Software, Inc. million compared to $0.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

Here I want to make the argument that the big bad wolf that is swallowing up the supply chain is investment in traditional technologies that were primarily designed to improve manufacturing decision making processes by reducing only manufacturing constraints. These technologies are mature. Here is my argument.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp., Reducing freight costs, improving supplier delivery performance, and minimizing supplier risk are three of the many benefits machine learning is providing in collaborative supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. At the session, together through education, sharing case studies, and reviewing research, we will explore the opportunities to build a Network of Networks to improve B2B supply chain connectivity. Could it help in track and trace?

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