Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math. The Company has a checkered past.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Businesses need to: Drive planning processes that strive to reduce emissions and satisfy demand with sustainable, ethically-sourced supply. Increase forecasting accuracy to reduce obsolete inventory. 3] Richard Howells, “ Sustainable Supply Chains: Balancing the Bottom Line and the Green Line ,” SAP News, 17 May 2021. [4]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. This would include rules like inventory matching, customer policy, Available-To-Promise (ATP) or allocation. This is not the case of SAP IBP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. This would include rules like inventory matching, customer policy, Available-To-Promise (ATP) or allocation. The lack of progress is troubling.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. Not knowing how much inventory is at each location. Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. Here’s what we found: 1.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

When Coke first started looking at 3-procurement systems, they questioned why they should go out of the current SAP system that was already deployed. The decision was to keep the front end of the system in SAP, and use Coupa for a procure to order part of the P2P process. Deployment occurred December 1, 2012. The data must be right.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, say I recommend an application that gives them full visibility into the supply chain, so that when they place an order, they know how much is in the inventory, how it’s coming and by what date, so they can start using it in manufacturing. And, no surprises here, I attach metrics so I can measure the baseline.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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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). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite the fact that the cost of memory decreased a million-fold in 55 years, the majority of supply chain solutions use relational databases from vendors like Oracle, SAP or Teradata. Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters.

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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). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award. Meet Ernest.

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RFgen

JUNE 30, 2023

Gone are the days of paper inventory tracking and manual data entry. The businesses of tomorrow need technology solutions that give real-time information in order to make key business decisions when it comes to inventory. Essentially, an ERP helps organizations run their business by acting as a single source of truth.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

All of this must be done without sacrificing key performance metrics, such as inventory shrinkage and customer satisfaction rates. Conversely, restocking store inventories will require more structured, high-volume shipments. How they will distribute inventories across locations. Global Supply Chain Networks.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

All of this must be done without sacrificing key performance metrics, such as inventory shrinkage and customer satisfaction rates. Conversely, restocking store inventories will require more structured, high-volume shipments. How they will distribute inventories across locations. Global Supply Chain Networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Contract analytics can provide a summary view on performance and pricing deviations, risks, statistics (expiry, renewal and pending), procurement and sales metrics. 1] https://infocus.emc.com/mauro_caputi/contracts-management-and-analytics-the-source-of-truth-for-big-data/.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It focuses on leveraging the corporate infrastructure and its SAP and SAP Hana implementation, in order to span all activities from order to cash and from demand planning to customer delivery and return. The company established a supply chain IT organization that reports up to the CIO.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. Short cycles require buffer inventories and short lead times. source Moody’s). Let me explain.

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Elementum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intelligent Document Processing: IDP solutions use a combination of AI and RPA technologies to extract, process, and analyze data from documents and other structured or unstructured sources. Retail : Automating inventory management, order processing, and customer support. In what ways can SAP enhance process automation for enterprises?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

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. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

If you’re looking into ERPs, you’re likely to come across providers like SAP, Sage, Infor, Netsuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Cloud-based systems offer a cost-effective way to manage and monitor suppliers, inventory and more. ERPs are a good choice for companies wanting a business-wide solution. Cloud-based software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As Performance on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.

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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. Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large. I would use SAP APO only as a system of record.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. That in-turn raises the challenge of the ability to manage inventories across cross-channel commerce, along with the ability to position and deploy inventory to the most profitable channel and associated store outlets.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. In this step, the actuals are compared with the planned metrics (MAPE, forecast accuracy, bias etc.) Management Consulting. Sustainability Services. Technology Services. Application Management. Outsourcing Services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. The performance factors evaluated in the analysis are: Growth. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

It matters not what your metric is, you get the same results: too much of our trade spend goes down the drain, doesn’t it? And we’re off to the races to identify the source and promotion involved. As we begin to better link the forecast, order management, shipping, transportation and retail execution, things will continue to improve.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Many just get into a routine of constantly increasing precision of what they can control and understand ( IFRS / GAAP accounting and ERP systems that enforce these rules) but in miss accurate measurement of flow of production / inventories. They truly are the Salmon swimming against the current. Figure 5: User Interface Simulation Examples.

S&OP 60

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A 3PL is a warehousing and fulfillment provider that stores inventory then picks, packs, and ships it when an order comes in. A 3PL will often also provide inventory tracking and a warehouse management system (WMS) that allows merchants to see order and fulfillment statuses. A 4PL is essentially a network of 3PL’s.

3PL 52

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OptiProERP

JUNE 4, 2019

It is the process of extracting information from past and present data to make diligent decisions regarding purchase, sale, inventory and other departments. Other sources of demand include: Spare parts. The traditional forecast does not accurately represent and measure future metrics in detail. Competition. Market trends.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. As a result, organizations end up either under stocked (that leads to lost customers) or overstocked (leading to unwanted inventory carrying costs). Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Gather feedback from your workers on which materials are holding up production or difficult to use and try to source better alternatives. With a business intelligence toolset built into your core production and inventory management software you will be able to spot – and address – shift-related productivity slumps that cost your business.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Now, lets look at different forecast measurement metrics e.g. Mean Forecast Error (MFE) or Bias, Mean absolute Deviation (MAD), Mean Absolute Percentage error (MAPE), Weighted Absolute Percentage error (WMAPE).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The high cost of inflationary inventories and the need to work down post pandemic working capital is a driver for companies to better use network data. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics.

Optimal Sourcing 335

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 26, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The high cost of inflationary inventories and the need to work down post pandemic working capital is a driver for companies to better use network data. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics.

Optimal Sourcing 78

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