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. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Mistake #5.

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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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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Businesses need to: Drive planning processes that strive to reduce emissions and satisfy demand with sustainable, ethically-sourced supply. 3] Richard Howells, “ Sustainable Supply Chains: Balancing the Bottom Line and the Green Line ,” SAP News, 17 May 2021. [4] ’ This is true of a sustainability initiative.

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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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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

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.

Supply Chain Network Software 150

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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. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

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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

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. I also do not know a team that has been successful implementing a solution across make, source and deliver processes without clearly defined goals and process workflows.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Is it a coincidence that process industry leaders have standardized on SAP and blindly followed the SAP IT-centric definition of supply chain automation without holding SAP accountable to build effective supply chain solutions for the extended value network? I will let you draw your own conclusions.

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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. I also do not know a team that has been successful implementing a solution across make, source and deliver processes without clearly defined goals and process workflows.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

And, no surprises here, I attach metrics so I can measure the baseline. When you were starting out, one of the few software tools available were SAP and Ariba. If a company wants to scale, generally they will need an ERP if they don’t already have one, often SAP. You build your supply chain based on that.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

When Coke first started looking at 3-procurement systems, they questioned why they should go out of the current SAP system that was already deployed. The decision was to keep the front end of the system in SAP, and use Coupa for a procure to order part of the P2P process. Deployment occurred December 1, 2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite the fact that the cost of memory decreased a million-fold in 55 years, the majority of supply chain solutions use relational databases from vendors like Oracle, SAP or Teradata. Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

” At the other end of the continuum is the argument that “ Forecast error is the most important metric to improve.” Test new solutions against the traditional demand sensing providers of E2open (Terra Technology), SAP and ToolsGroup. Three Reasons Why SAP Planning Is a Risk To Your Business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

In a similar vein, SAP Hana has a huge marketing machine behind its launch, but I question if the price is worth the value. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions. Priced in RFPs as 1.6M

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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). The project included the centralization of SAP ERP and the augmentation with other software.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 5, 2019

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. It included an advanced planning algorithm, a self-tuning forecasting engine, SAP ERP connectors, and S&OP capabilities.

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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). The project included the centralization of SAP ERP and the augmentation with other software.

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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., Our research also found that organizations selecting a large provider (SAP) had improved outcomes relative to users of Oracle, other ERP systems, and no ERP system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The definition is: An adaptive network focused on a value-based outcome that senses and translates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing operations. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop.

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TrackVia

APRIL 18, 2023

Data metrics coming from any of the following: Moody’s S&P ratings CAMELS scores Standalone capital adequacy ratios play a crucial role in assessing the financial health of banks. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to have a more accurate and up-to-date view of their financial providers’ risk profiles.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2016

With Infor’s acquisition of GT Nexus, SAP’s acquisition of Ariba and E2open’s acquisition of Terra Technology, it has grown more confusing for the business user. ” Some data needs to move quickly and with high velocity using streaming data architectures, while other data sources can move in batch processes.

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Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

The only real problems they had outside of vying with their competitors were helping their accounting folks in the home office locate the source of deductions that were not obviously linked to the promotion plans; and heck, that wasn’t their problem anyway, right? It was a tedious effort, but, overall, rather easy. Ah, those were the days!

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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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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

In short, Descartes is among the largest supply chain and logistics software companies in the market today (behind SAP, Oracle, Manhattan Associates, and JDA Software), and one of the first to embrace the network/software-as-a-service model (services revenues represented 97 percent of total revenues in FY 2017).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance.

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Bristlecone

MAY 21, 2021

Procurement leaders are increasingly turning to SAP S/4HANA as their solution of choice. In October, SAP launched SAP S/4HANA 2020, and while there are numerous features that make S/4HANA stand out from other ERP solutions, what truly differentiates this latest release for procurement is its compelling offering of: Procurement Analytics.

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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. 1] https://infocus.emc.com/mauro_caputi/contracts-management-and-analytics-the-source-of-truth-for-big-data/.

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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. The company established a supply chain IT organization that reports up to the CIO.

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Elementum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intelligent Document Processing: IDP solutions use a combination of AI and RPA technologies to extract, process, and analyze data from documents and other structured or unstructured sources. Popular sources include Coursera, Udacity, edX, and LinkedIn Learning. In what ways can SAP enhance process automation for enterprises?

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

All of this must be done without sacrificing key performance metrics, such as inventory shrinkage and customer satisfaction rates. The warehouse is at the center of the e-commerce revolution, and innovation is key if retailers want to keep up. Global Supply Chain Networks.

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RFgen

JULY 11, 2017

All of this must be done without sacrificing key performance metrics, such as inventory shrinkage and customer satisfaction rates. The warehouse is at the center of the e-commerce revolution, and innovation is key if retailers want to keep up. Global Supply Chain Networks.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 22, 2018

“We’re in the midst of a shift in how work gets done within a business,” says Arun Srinivasan, senior vice president of strategy and customer operations with SAP Fieldglass , a provider of vendor-management systems (VMS) software. Talent today comes from the source that meets a company’s needs of the moment. In the case of I.T.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. 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.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Detection of systemic challenges will be a bit more gradual and is based on the metrics that matter to your business, such as customer service, days of supply, etc., Diagnosing systemic challenges requires a hierarchy of metrics with respect to cause and effect (such as the SCOR® model). Detection of incidental challenges (e.g.

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