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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OptiProERP

APRIL 9, 2024

Use dashboard reporting and analytics tools to track performance metrics in real-time and identify areas for improvement. OptiProERP with SAP Business One Tracks All Steps from Quote to Cash OptiProERP with SAP Business One is a manufacturing ERP that tracks all of the steps in the Q2C process.

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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. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics. Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics.

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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 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. Let me give you example.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Aligned Metrics. To ensure the management of the complex system, the metrics of operating margin, inventory turns, ROIC, customer service, revenue, and forecast accuracy need to be managed together as a non-linear system. What does an investment in SAP mean for a company? SAP means many different things for different people.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Several good friends in consulting roles are sharing information on SAP HANA from SAP Insider; and this morning, LLamasoft announced the acquisition of the LogicTools assets from IBM.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here “near real-time” is defined as a refresh of key metrics every five minutes. They use SAP as their ERP. Generating the analytics in SAP also would not work. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

The goal was to take data directly out of disparate source data systems including different versions of SAP and different types of supply chain planning, and then quickly assemble a common data model. These codes were put into SAP after an order cut had occurred. The change management was difficult.” Planners are far more efficient.

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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. Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs. A focus on functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. As a result, in a market downturn, process latency increases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. If we use the balance sheet improvement as a guide, the best run companies do not run SAP. The larger danger are the large system integrator ERP planning solutions from SAP and Oracle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

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). Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear. The SAP and Oracle analyst relations groups are big machines. It is uncomfortable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Evolution of S&OP Options for SAP. I like what SAP is doing for SAP IBP. In many organizations, SAP is a planning system of record for hundreds and thousands of planners. This perspective is not shared by SAP.). The solution needs to mature, but the good news is that SAP is investing in supply chain.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 15, 2024

Step 3: Metric Selection Not everything can be improved or enhanced at the same time with AI. Based on the outcome chosen, key metrics can be identified to track the impact of AI, such as “order accuracy” or “warehouse throughput”. Thorough data cleansing significantly enhances the accuracy of AI’s predictive capabilities.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 15, 2024

Step 3: Metric Selection Not everything can be improved or enhanced at the same time with AI. Based on the outcome chosen, key metrics can be identified to track the impact of AI, such as “order accuracy” or “warehouse throughput”. Thorough data cleansing significantly enhances the accuracy of AI’s predictive capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 10, 2018

Improvement on the key metrics of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is elusive. Contractually, analyst work at existing companies must be reviewed by large software companies (primarily SAP and Oracle). Then it was sexy. Today, it is not. There is struggle.

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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 25, 2013

SAP touts “best-run companies” while the Accenture ads claim “ high-performance supply chains.” It is a quest and the subject of my next book, Metrics That Matter , that will publish in September, 2014. When I get off the plane, I am accosted by the signs at airports around the world. I shake my head.

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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

JULY 9, 2013

This research was the backbone of the Supply Chain Metrics that Matter series of reports. Instead, they have measured functional metrics or focused on projects. I believe that customer service is a critical metric and a key element of managing a complex supply chain system. The Building of the Index. Check them out!

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Valogix

JUNE 1, 2023

As stated previously, most small businesses use an ERP system from companies like SAP, NetSuite and Microsoft. This blog continues with the various financial/accounting measurements you can use. But they fall short of providing inventory optimization and rationalization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

Then it is off to Dallas to speak on Supply Chain Metrics That Matter at the Dallas CSCMP roundtable and complete some more client work. The supply chain is a complex system and these metrics are tightly linked in non-linear relationships. Figure 2: Supply Chain Effective Frontier. Figure 3: Defining Planning Architectures.

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging. For example, an application like SAP SNC, while functioning across supply chain tiers, is an enterprise data model that is inside-out, not outside-in. Marketplace Rebirth.

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DynaSys

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In other words, these are projects with benefits that are not visible in short-term financial metrics, but extremely important from a long-term perspective. Indeed, financially-oriented metrics do not show everything that is important. What about “no-profit” projects in supply chain?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

While, in 2012, SAP acquired Ariba. While it is too early to judge the impact of the acquisition strategy on E2open and GT Nexus, it is clear that SAP’s acquisition of Ariba slowed development and innovation. The technology market for B2B supply chain is consolidating. This announcement is consistent with this trend.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The EMEA Automotive division also utilizes SAP APO and determining a vision for how best to apply the strengths of RapidResponse and APO across the various business processes is still a work in progress.

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Bristlecone

JULY 20, 2020

SAP S/4HANA supports this transformation through highly automated processes, robotics and machine learning applications that help predict outcomes. SAP Predictive Accounting for sales orders provides an overview of sales orders and their values regardless of billing status. SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. SAP Machine Learning.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Folmar adds, “Achieving full-scale sustainability and circularity cannot happen without end-to-end alignment, hierarchical connectivity, integration of all parts of your supply chain (forward and reverse), performance metrics, and business processes. ”[3] Howells observes that a sustainable supply chain begins with design.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, the only metrics that count are how a change impacts the company’s goals. Put this information into the hands of your planners and suddenly they are making decisions based on the impact to the company, not just to their own internal metrics (like expediting costs). So what do you think?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

Metrics Definition. The organization needs to be clear on the Metrics That Matter and the alignment of vertical silos’ metrics to the balanced portfolio. For example, one business unit can run SAP, one Oracle, one Logility, and one OM Partners; and it will be OK. Reporting Structure. Form and Function of Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 30, 2014

2) The focus needs to be on driving a balanced portfolio of metrics that goes across the organization. Keep riding the horse… It is morning in London, and I spent the week with a client working on the implementation of the SAP IBP technology built on HANA. The process needs to be very disciplined. Balance drives alignment.

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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$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity. While many will compare you to SAP, it is not a comparison. I am not surprised.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2019

Progress on the key performance metrics of cost, customer service, inventory, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are going backward; not forwards, for most companies. Sadly, there is little progress in this area from large companies like Anaplan, Oracle, SAS, or SAP. This is not the case of SAP IBP. Connected Planning.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. The uncertainty around SAP’s APO strategy will drive the need for replacement earlier, pushing companies to test-and-learn with deeper and more meaningful engines. New models evolve based on the Art of the Possible.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The second generation of solutions were built and marketed by Enterprise Resource Planning technology companies like SAP and Oracle. In addition, I am now done with the page proofs for my new book, Metrics that Matter. Instead, he wants to drive supply chain excellence and build the metrics that matter. The book is a story.

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