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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. Roughly 3,000 customers, prospects, and partners attended.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Let the Design Begin…

Supply Chain Shaman

It was far a cry from the neon and glitzy hotels of Las Vegas where I am often speaking. With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. The theatre was packed.