Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Let me explain. Don’t believe me?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I love the stories but question the fit of the metaphor(s) for a supply chain conference. In the world of supply chain management following 33 months of disruption, this is not the case. The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. In this tough market excellence in supply chain planning is a critical element to be competitive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Last week was the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. 110 supply chain leaders attended. In preparation for the summit, we readied the final report of the work on translating balance sheet results into a methodology to judge Supply Chain Excellence. Supply Chain Design. Aligned Metrics.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

They explain, “It is widely accepted by now that the ‘normal’ supply chains of material use — producing materials, using them, and then discarding them into landfills, other countries, or rivers and seas — are wasteful and damaging to the environment. The Way Ahead for the Circular Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. Infor, with anticipated revenues of $3.4

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, it is vital for organisations to ensure a reliable supply of products and services. Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Leadership in Supply Chain. Industry 4.0.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The stories border on the ridiculous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. 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). The research is a study of large manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. It is a story of supply chain innovation. The products of Terra Technology are unique, but poorly understood by the mainstream supply chain team.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Figure 1: Gaps in Supply Chain Visibility. The gaps are large.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Supply chain optimization consultant, author, and podcaster Marcia Williams has been working in supply chain since 2004. On episode 18 of Supply Chain Next, Marcia talks with host Richard Donaldson about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to digital transformation. ?. I use finance to show the value.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. The most significant for the supply chain market are assets from Baan, Formation Systems, Fygir, Intentia, Lawson, MAPICS, Mercia, and SSA Global.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Or will companies stumble on the path by mistakenly implementing supply-centric processes and calling them demand-driven initiatives? As a writer of research on demand-driven supply chains for over eight years, I find many amusing. Supply chain leaders feel stuck.

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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). About the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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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). About the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I know of few areas in supply chains discussion that raise as much dialogue or ire. ” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” I also worked in manufacturing during the period of 1978-1992 trying to plan demand. Moving Forward.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

As organizations seek to drive supply chain integration across global business units and markets, billions of dollars have been invested in massive systems known as. ERP systems are designed to integrate transactions from finance, human resources, procurement, operations, sales and marketing, logistics, and other functions in a firm.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

They will soon change your supply chain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supply chain systems and IT architectures. In time, you will come to love them. I think that they will be a game changer.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 10, 2014

The DRL is a rigorous metrics-based assessment of the value of data in various states of readiness. The aggregate change in DRL associated with a piece of data from raw input signal to finished product will contribute to the characterization of a given analytic flow in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and other performance metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. Question 1: What drives a Successful Implementation of Supply Chain Planning? Supply chain planning is now on its third decade.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. As I wrote last June, investments are rising in Supply Chain Operating Networks and Descartes is a prime example of this trend in action — a trend that I predict will continue to gain momentum in the months and years ahead. pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. In a similar vein, SAP Hana has a huge marketing machine behind its launch, but I question if the price is worth the value. Today’s supply chains run on spreadsheets. It is our goal to capture the voices of supply chain leaders globally.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

One of the favorite parts of my job is teaching classes on how to take supply chain concepts to the next level to improve corporate performance. I love helping people to see supply chain concepts differently. Both move the supply chain design from inside-out to outside-in. As I teach the class, I learn too.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We are watching the redefinition of the principles of safe and secure supply chains and corporate liability. PCA was a small player in a complex supply chain of big brands. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. He will spend the rest of his life in jail.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

It hasn’t been too long ago that a typical consumer products manufacturer rep would replicate last year’s plan, make any adjustments for an account’s expanded stores, new markets, or new product launches, and dub it the new current year forecast. It was a tedious effort, but, overall, rather easy. Ah, those were the days! Just a nuisance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. This new dashboard gives retailers a lot of supply chain data to see where they stand.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2018

”[1] Joerg Koesters ( @joergkoesters ), Head of Retail Marketing and Communication at SAP adds, “Artificial intelligence is expected to become pervasive across customer journeys, supply networks, merchandizing, and marketing and commerce because it provides better insights to optimize retail execution.”[2].

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. Oracle Delivers Transformational Capabilities with New In-Memory Applications for Oracle Value Chain Planning. SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. HighJump Software Acquires Evenex.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. Let me explain.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I recently interviewed a large semiconductor company that developed a cross-enterprise initiative to drive analytical learning across its entire supply chain. The company established a supply chain IT organization that reports up to the CIO. There are systems directors in both the procurement and logistics/planning teams.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution. Media and Entertainment.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Successfully rolling out a supply chain management system can be an extraordinarily complex and stressful project – not to mention expensive. In this guide to implementing supply chain management systems: What is a supply chain management system? Why implement a supply chain management system?

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

The warehouse management system market is experiencing a period of rapid growth as a variety of industry conditions come together to make the supply chain, distribution and fulfillment aspects of businesses extremely important. How they will keep supply chain stakeholders aware of inventory levels and supply needs.

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