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. While the name of SAP’s Supply Chain Planning suite has changed to SCM7 (the old name was SAP APO), the gaps are glaring. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections.

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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. While the name of SAP’s Supply Chain Planning suite has changed to SCM7 (the old name was SAP APO), the gaps are glaring. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first in the 1990s was Manugistics, the second in the early 2000s was SAP APO, and now their solution is SAS. In short, his vision of an end-to-end supply chain was transactional: better processing of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. The Company is struggling.

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Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

Category management isn’t just another procurement trend. What procurement teams need is a clear view of their spend, tighter control, and a strategy that delivers lasting value—exactly what category management provides. The goal is to get the best results from every category. It’s tactical and short-term.

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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 primary investments are in networks of limited capabilities based on EDI, and indirect procurement spend management. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics. Relationship Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Snow fell last night as I worked on my last Supply Chain Metrics That Matter report. The concept of the Effective Frontier is that best in class companies align functional metrics to balance growth, cost, inventory and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) performance while balancing customer service metrics. The Effective Frontier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this volatile world, efficient procurement led by a CFO is not the answer. The low Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and the growth below the industry average comes from the lack of network design and organizational alignment between new product development, manufacturing, and procurement. What is the issue? Conclusion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. SAP SAP showed off Joule, its generative AI assistant. There were two use cases that I found interesting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. The gap between logistics and procurement; and logistics and customer service increases process latency. Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs. The Role of Enterprise Data.

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Bristlecone

MAY 21, 2021

Did you know that advanced analytics, when used in lieu of traditional statistical models, can help procurement departments increase cost efficiency by 3-8%? [1]. The procurement department of any business generates more data than is humanly possible to compute and comprehend through traditional means. Operational Procurement.

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Precoro

JULY 29, 2024

Procurement operations are no exception. In fact, 43% of GPOs that took part in the 2023 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey cited overall procurement risk had increased significantly as compared to 20% in the 2021 study. Keep reading to learn: What is an online procurement system?

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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). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.

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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). As a B2B company, procurement management is essential.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

If one plant uses one version of SAP, another plant uses a different version and your warehouse uses Oracle, how does collaboration happen between these systems? For example, choosing the lowest cost supplier over one that provides better quality and delivery guarantees. Typically by e-mail and Excel…hardly an advanced collaboration approach!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math. The Terra solution complimented the functionality of the traditional APS vendors, i.e. Adexa, JDA, Logility, Kinaxis, SAP APO and Steelwedge. The change will be major.

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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. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. As long as companies are motivated by functional metrics, inventory management will be an enigma. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Demand-driven concepts are expansive they extend from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier, but the areas of sales and procurement are often very resistant to the demand-driven concepts. Over the last decade, the only metric that we have improved is revenue/employee (see below). Most Have Defined “Demand” too Narrowly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

For one customer that I was working with, it was E2open for hi-tech procurement, GT Nexus for ocean freight, CH Robinson for over- the-road transportation, SupplyOn and Exostar for communication with A&D customers, and Elemica for communication with rubber and plastic suppliers. The gaps are large. ” I said, ” I understand.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance. I do not think that this will happen through the repurposing of indirect procurement networks (e.g., SAP’s redefinition of Ariba). Process needs to follow strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of B2B, and ERP Cloud based software provider SAP SE’s formal reporting of Q4 and fiscal full year 2023 financial performance. SAP CEO Christien Klein noted in the company’s reporting that: “ SAP has delivered: We met or exceeded our outlook for 2023 in all key metrics.”

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Simulate the CO 2 footprint of the plan through procurement, production, and transport. 3] Richard Howells, “ Sustainable Supply Chains: Balancing the Bottom Line and the Green Line ,” SAP News, 17 May 2021. [4] ”[3] Howells observes that a sustainable supply chain begins with design.

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OptiProERP

APRIL 9, 2024

Collaboration between production, procurement, and logistics teams is essential to optimize resource utilization and minimize lead times. Use dashboard reporting and analytics tools to track performance metrics in real-time and identify areas for improvement. Production Planning Upon receiving an order, production planning kicks in.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This effort was led by the Chief Procurement Officer for Siemens BT, Carl Oberland, but has recently been rolled out across the global organization. In addition, Carl assigned a person who could work on access databases, and began by combining procurement data for 5 divisions into a single database. “The

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., 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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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability. In the end-to-end supply chain there’s procurement, logistics, operations, and warehousing.

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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 primary investments are in networks of limited capabilities based on EDI, and indirect procurement spend management. Traditional planning taxonomies focus on the optimization of functional metrics. Relationship Management.

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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. There are systems directors in both the procurement and logistics/planning teams.

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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. This included budgeting tools, commodity management data, SAP inventory data, contract information, and other data from multiple parts of the organization.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Businesses can gain valuable insights into cost-saving opportunities by integrating data from various sources such as transportation, procurement, and inventory. What is the Role of Performance Tracking and Metrics in Supply Chain Analytics Software?

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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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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 28, 2021

4PL’s will typically operate through a SaaS-based warehouse management solution (WMS), allowing merchants to see fulfillment statuses, on-time delivery metrics, and inventory levels across all locations at a glance. Integrated Technology. 3PL’s rarely provide this type of technology component. End-to-End Supply Chain Support.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Insuring that each function, including online marketing, store operations and supply chain have common objectives, metrics and aligned rewards for the coming year. Procurement Blog. Pharmaceutical and Biotech.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 9, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Example: For a shipper, number of shipments at a 3PL warehouse might be a relevant metric while the 3PL provider may be more interested in the number of shipments for all serviced shippers. Procurement Blog.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? A problem in procurement can impact manufacturing and logistics and planning, but often these dots are never connected, so there never emerges a cross-functional approach to working on them.

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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.) Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries. Business Services. Business Applications.

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