Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The SAP staff observes, “The top supply chain optimization priorities havent really changed for decades, even centuries: Make sure customers are happy, increase efficiency and profitability, and balance supply and demand.”[2] ” Sourcing optimization. ” SAP Explainer, 19 August 2024. [3]

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There are three reasons why: Vertical excellence—having the best manufacturing, procurement or transportation function—has not worked. What does an investment in SAP mean for a company? SAP means many different things for different people. How do you balance the trade-offs between source, make and deliver?

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Wholesalers 8 Steps to Drive Distributor Excellence Connect with Enchange Online Posts by Topics Dave Jordan (432) FMCG (385) Supply Chain (249) S&OP (226) Route to Market (196) Forecasting & Demand Planning (176) Performance Improvement (175) Distribution (134) Traditional Trade (114) Sales (112) CEO (111) Inventory Management & Stock (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 18, 2025

Industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters founder Bob Ferrari provides observations and insights garnered from the SAP Sapphire customer conference held in May. SAP ’s goal of several years ago related to growing revenues and profitability has shown positive momentum.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Employees Cannot Get to the Right Data at the Speed of Business A war is raging between Oracle, Salesforce and SAP to automate supply chains. Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. Ask a procurement or transportation professional if they have a good demand signal and expect a laugh.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

Does anyone really think that the Oracle SCP solution is stronger than SAP’s? For example, those that actively read my blog, know that I frequently take issue with SAP, but seldom with Oracle. Don’t run a selection process through procurement or finance. Source: Horse for Courses definition Oxford Dictionary

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Supply chains will get more regional and focus more on alternate sourcing/ substitution options.

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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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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

acquired by SAP). LeanDNA is a cloud-based supply chain execution platform that helps discrete manufacturers digitally transform their procurement operations. The company centralizes data from multiple sources to manage inventory, simplify change management, and improve data quality.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Food service leader digitizes procurement to drive efficiency, transparency and effective supplier management as it accelerates global expansion. JFC leverages only best-in-class processes and technologies, with its full operational procurement system used over the years to support its rapidly growing store network in the Philippines.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

At Cerasis we work with our shipper customers who procure items every day and have needs for inbound freight management as they secure those products from their vendors. Increasingly, as we work with procurement folks at these companies, we are hearing that technology for better communication and to create more efficiency.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Think of it as a single source of truth for everything from production planning and inventory management to financials, supply chain, and even the shop floor. Its a game-changer for businesses looking to streamline their operations, gain real-time visibility, and boost overall efficiency.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 23, 2012

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Ariba, Inc. Nasdaq: ARBA) today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., With the addition of Ariba, SAP will acquire the leader in cloud-based collaborative business commerce. per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $4.3 Business Network to Drive Growth.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2018

However, companies like JDA, Logility, Oracle and SAP are hamstrung by software maintenance upgrades, promises to customers and evolution. One of the largest blights in the market is the SAP evolution of APO and the lack of clarity of the roadmap. Today, the client-server technology vendors are moving to cloud-based deployments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The technology group wanted to implement SAP IBP, and the business leaders were resistant. The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation (Source: Adelante SCM). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

I am speaking to companies that are being held hostage to SAP HANA upgrades with 70% cost overruns and 60% time schedule expansion. Similarly, SAP Ariba frustration is mounting in the market. Yet, the IT team is still mandating SAP standardization. For many, mandating SAP is job security for the IT implementation team.

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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. (Our research shows that the projects failed to deliver value in 75% of companies.)

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Last week enterprise ERP and SCM software and technology platform provider SAP SE made what the provider declared as a significant and groundbreaking announcement. In the spiffy video event premiering this new capability, SAP CEO Christien Klein explained: SAP Business Data Cloud unleashes the full value of enterprise data for Business AI.

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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. SAP SAP showed off Joule, its generative AI assistant. And if they are not, the retailer can look at alternative sources that aligns to their goals. The first was around inventory management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2021

Whereas many of their competitors’ source from wholesalers like McLane or Core-Mark, Casey’s supplies their stores with groceries, food, health and beauty aids, and general merchandise from the distribution centers (DCs). In the past year, the company has also launched a centralized procurement team. Williams explained.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

These sources while functional are difficult to connect. Most deployments focus on functional excellence–manufacturing, transportation, customer service or procurement. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic. Figure 1 is a picture from a client.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain. I’m trying to get ahead of that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 7, 2017

Today I attended the SAP Insider Conference. SAP S4/HANA delivers on the goal of digital transformation. I yearn for the years when the SAP Insider conference was larger and full of energy. The attendees are hard-core SAP teams trying to figure out the new architecture. This should worry SAP. The answer?

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement in the Age of Uncertainty: 4 Lessons from the New Forrester Study May 9, 2023 | | Innovation by Alex Saric In today’s age of uncertainty, procurement departments are under tremendous pressure. Fortunately, the report shows that procurement is putting actions behind words.

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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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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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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

If you have an efficient ERP system, information can flow freely between your source-to-pay applications and the companys central IT infrastructure. The first company to use the term ERP commercially was SAP, which was founded in 1972 by five former German employees of IBM after the IT giant had abandoned their pet project.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” What is the issue? These capabilities do not exist at Ford.

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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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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2013

Last week at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference, I led a discussion session titled “At the Intersection of Social and Business Networks” with about fifty senior executives in supply chain and procurement. No details were provided, but clearly SAP and its customer base will play an important role in defining the roadmap.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

EDI is too cumbersome, and SAP Ariba’s focus, despite the marketing hype, is primarily on managing indirect spending. (My The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. There is hope.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. At the time, the company started internal discussions on re-footprinting the organization and deploying SAP across manufacturing centers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. It believe that it will become part of the existing processes of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Total charges were $46 million with a $.09

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Jaggaer

APRIL 3, 2025

Leader in procurement technology expands its team appointing Pascal dArc as new Chief Strategy Officer RESEARCH TRIANGLE, NC, April 3rd, 2025 JAGGAER, a global leader in Source-to-Pay and Supplier Collaboration, today announces the appointment of Pascal dArc to Chief Strategy Officer.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Procurement is a complex and dynamic process involving strategic planning and several stages of execution, from sourcing to paying and reporting. Supply chain management, purchase requisitions and orders, budget management, and three-way matching – all these processes are integral to procurement as a whole. Lack of Transparency.

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