Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. Like riding a bumpy road, the supply chain leader is riding the ups and downs of changing market conditions facing greater variability day-to-day. Here, based on interviews with supply chain leaders, I share lessons learned. It will not be over soon.

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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. However, each user has their own instance of the software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

After finishing the Supply Chains to Admire report and the Youtube series (to be released this week), this is my feeling. What Is Supply Chain Excellence? The seven years of work on the Supply Chains to Admire is part of my quest to answer Keith’s question. Here, in this blog, I explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While consultants know the answers (or believe they do), I believe my goal as a research analyst is to unearth new questions that should be asked (and answered together openly in the supply chain community) to improve value. This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. Back to John.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

What is procurement? In simple terms business procurement is the process of locating and acquiring goods and services from external sources for the business to use. Procurement activities include planning, sourcing, and negotiation, along with risk management, legal and value analysis. Procurement in 2021 and beyond.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 14, 2017

But, how do supply chain leaders and managers ensure their omnichannel supply chain is working. The answer lies using these omnichannel supply chain metrics to carefully track and improve operations continuously. This is a simple key performance indicator (KPI), another name for metrics, to track.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often see statements like “move from a functional-silo’d focus to a drive a more holistic response.” ” Or “push a shift from a focus on cost to drive value?” ” Sound familiar? To help, I will ask, “How do you define value?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Containerization eventually reduced shipping and loading costs by at least 75%. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Business Process Automation AI: Revolutionizing Efficiency in the Digital Age Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dramatically transforming Business Process Automation (BPA), ushering in a new era of operational efficiency and innovation. AI-driven systems improve understanding and management of workflows.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

Discover Ways to Boost Supply Chain Visibility through Digital Marketing Supply chain visibility is essential for providing a superior customer experience and sustaining customer loyalty over time. Customers face significant frustrations that erode brand trust and sales without supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Understanding this relationship requires modeling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from Michael Balint at Solvoyo and looks at the fresh produce supply chain. To read the article, click HERE.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the industry’s biggest concerns is how to digitise and transform quickly, without starting from scratch and having to throw away your enormous investment in traditional systems. The good news is that you don’t have to—even if you have hundreds of legacy systems and ERP instances across your company.

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Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2024

Here we look at the most common tools and techniques used to bring the advantages of lean into the modern manufacturing workplace. In this guide to lean manufacturing tools: What are lean manufacturing tools? Indeed, these tools could be several different things, such as: New shop floor layouts. Big data frameworks.

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Precoro

JULY 16, 2023

The purchasing department plays a critical role in the success of an organization. Thought-out practices and well-managed workflows within the purchasing department are crucial for making sure that the company has the necessary resources available at the right time and at a reasonable cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

In today’s interconnected global economy, supply chains play a vital role in the success of businesses. It is crucial for organizations to understand the importance of Purchase Order collaboration to effectively manage their direct spend, optimize operations, and mitigate risks.

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Unleashed

JUNE 8, 2023

Behind every successful product business is a thoughtful procurement strategy designed to optimise the supplier management and purchasing process. This guide answers exactly what is procurement, how procurement works in a business , and which tools and strategies lead to supply chain success.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2018

Unfortunately, a lack of understanding in omnichannel supply chains has also led many companies to experience extreme issues in delivering on their promises. In addition, some may feel that growing into a seamless omnichannel sales strategy is impossible without supply chain technology hiccups, but that is not true.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

My dad is the VP of our household’s grocery supply chain. To keep customers like my dad satisfied, RGD and Quick-commerce companies need to invest in new technologies to optimize the supply chain and logistics operations. Supply Chain Digitalization & Autonomous Planning. Route Optimization.

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Unleashed

APRIL 21, 2024

The first step in a standard order processing system is the verification of a customer order which often includes a check to confirm there is sufficient inventory available to fulfil the order. Tracking: Order tracking systems keep the customer updated on the journey of their purchase, ensuring transparency until the order is delivered.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 12, 2017

When making discretionary purchases, I could look at my projection to make sure that if I made that purchase, I would have enough money in the bank, not only now, but at the end of the month when my mortgage and car loan came out. Today’s supply chain professionals need a crystal ball, too. Then could I buy it?

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TransAudit

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Today’s supply chains are still mostly linear, taking raw materials from the planet, using them, and disposing of them when they no longer have value. Supply chains at a consumer goods company, for example, make up about 80% of the company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. What Is a Circular Supply Chain?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other governmental entities necessitates continuous reporting on product traceability and adherence to exacting standards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. Why tell this story?

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QAD

JULY 1, 2021

This is not to be confused with the cost of goods manufactured (COGM), which refers to just the cost of inventory that was finished and prepared for the sale in the period. Rather, total manufacturing costs include all related costs accrued in the period. What is Direct Labor?

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Unleashed

JUNE 7, 2023

Inventory optimisation is the continuous process of ordering and managing inventory using the most cost-efficient best practices and systems. In 2021, businesses faced major supply chain challenges that resulted in understocked shelves and unhappy customers.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By integrating technologies such as AI and machine learning right from the start, DPO not only solves complex operational challenges but also drives significant growth. Advances in technology drive the automation and continuous improvement of business workflows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

As a guest writer for Forbes, public relations firms constantly pepper me with requests to speak to technologists boasting of having answers to improve supply chain resilience. I strongly believe that historical supply chain practices are not the answer. They need to evolve to help today’s supply chain business leader.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For any wholesale business, software has become critical to survival. Competition is now so fierce – and national and international supply chains so changeable – that wholesalers need systems that are fast and reliable to keep up. Software designed for wholesalers is the way to find that middle ground and remain there.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” My question is, “Why?

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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? What is a supply chain management system?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

As an analyst in the battered supply chain software market for a decade, it is fun to watch you grow. Clients buy your software because you make it real. For those who are new to reading the Supply Chain Shaman blog, let me begin my analysis with a disclaimer. I mpact #2. Growth: Eye on Global Expansion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

” The next call was with a technology provider. In 2004, with the evolution of demand sensing applications, the tactical and operational forecasts were both modeled using optimization, but the lack of synchronization of the two forecasts limited the technology adoption. Models Matter.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If there’s any piece of technology or analytics that can help with the most advanced data-driven decision-making in the supply chain right now, that’s prescriptive analytics. It is the most promising form of analytics in the market currently. What Is Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. Design as a Standalone Process. Today, Llamasoft, and the management of design processes, is no laughing matter. Today, supply chain design has become a process all to its own. The theatre was packed.

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