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Model Sustainability Trade-offs in Supply Chain Network Design to Reduce Emissions

Supply Chain Movement

How can they do that in an informed way, accounting for complex cost and service trade-offs? AIMMS Network Design provides functionality that helps supply chain teams model carbon emissions and other non-financial metrics like water consumption and carbon equivalents. SCM Webinar Wednesday, November 2.

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My Take: LLamasoft Buys Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

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. I always start the discussion of all software acquisitions with the same statement: the acquisition of software is seldom a good deal for the buyer/user of software.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

The ability of an organization to deliver reliable and consistent results for revenue, margin, customer service, and quality in the face of demand and supply variability. No technology in the market measures inventory health. These are different by design and the armed forces lacks modeling technologies to understand the differences.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. Leaders are starting to experiment with new technology approaches giving rise to new spending and interest by Venture Capitalists. The supply chain technology market is responding. Figure 1. The Market Response.

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Preparing for the Third Act

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last two decades, we have seen two evolutions of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) software. These solutions bundled Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) suites into the architectures, but there was a problem. Tips for the Road: A) Cloud.

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Joining Forces for the Third Act

Supply Chain Shaman

As I answered the phone, I heard the voice of an aggressive investor in supply chain technology software. I have been writing on what I term the “Third Act in Supply Chain Planning Software.” I think that SAP has great talent to write software, but their current focus is on the analytics technology market.

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Calling for a New Pro-Active Supply Chain Risk Management

Supply Chain Movement

And how can we practically add risk and resilience to the key supply chain dimensions of service, cost, and capital? This approach is built on three principles: First, use a digital twin to model and stress-test supply disruptions on the network and create insights how to mitigate disruptions. SCM Webinar Wednesday September 14.