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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Several good friends in consulting roles are sharing information on SAP HANA from SAP Insider; and this morning, LLamasoft announced the acquisition of the LogicTools assets from IBM.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Almost two decades of reporting. We find that the companies with the most marked improvement in a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are smaller and less well-known. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. Every customer seems to want to manage them differently.”

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The direct connection between the two processes increases costs and increases error. Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. This boosts revenues and optimises inventory.

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Reflections on Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

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. The SAP and Oracle analyst relations groups are big machines. It is uncomfortable.

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FedEx Partners for Visibility, New CEO Focuses on Quality

Intelligent Audit

German-Based Transportation Company DB Schenker Announces the Acquisition of USA Truck. In a continued effort to grow its presence in the North American market, DB Schenker announced the $435 million purchase of USA Truck on June 24, 2022. Supply Chain Dive reported that the company’s buying binge has not been exclusive to the U.S.,

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