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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

September 26, 2019) A new study by ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and Spinnaker, a supply chain services company, has found that only 7% of companies are reaping the benefits of digital transformation of supply chain planning. About ToolsGroup. BOSTON, Mass. and HOUSTON, Tex. About Spinnaker.

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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Using this data, advanced predictive models can estimate when failures are likely to occur and recommend appropriate timelines to perform corrective measures, allowing manufacturers to organize their production schedules based on predicted equipment availability metrics. Increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math. Traditionally E2open sold to the procurement organization. The founders remain, and the company is private, and tightly-held. The Company has a checkered past.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

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. These technologies include the work by Terra Technology and ToolsGroup. To do this companies need an end-to-end leader.

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Ferrari: Under the Hood

ToolsGroup

The reading audience is global, and spans a wide variety of roles: procurement, supply chain strategy and planning, product management, logistics and transportation, customer service, and others. We talked to Bob to see what we might learn from that experience. What is the makeup of your blog audience?

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. 75% of procurement managers and Managing Directors from the EU and UK believe passing on increased raw material costs to customers is appropriate. ToolsGroup). Deloitte ). Financial Times ).

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A World in Flux: Global Supply Chain Predictions for 2021

ToolsGroup

And the reason that we pointed out that difference is that as we monitor the supply chain technology landscape, there’s a tendency right now for supply chain risk mitigation to be purely focused on the procurement side and on the procurement technology side. So that’s kind of the overall theme that we’ve seen.