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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

I find that most companies’ understanding of supply chain planning is immature, and that next week, at the Gartner Supply Chain Summit in Orlando, that many will don their Mickey ears to discuss what I consider outdated supply chain planning models. Buying supply chain planning software is hard.

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Strategy. Strategy. Wherefore Art Thou Strategy?

Supply Chain Shaman

This includes digital supply chain transformation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrades. In contrast, those who outperformed were better at strategy and aligned with outcomes. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, we published The Supply Chains to Admire for 2023. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. How Do You Define Excellence? Most supply chain leaders are stuck in their own paradigms. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence.

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Network Investment. Defining the ROI.

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply network–shipments and production of trading partners–represents over 70% of the environmental impact of supply chain decisions. Networks take three forms–demand, design, and supply. Here I share insights on the sharing of supply data. Each network has a self-serving strategy.

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Make Room for Leadership to Drive S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

If you have walked in the shoes of the supply chain leader, you are probably laughing by now. When a supply chain leader opens a discussion with, “I am leading an initiative for digital transformation”, I know I am in trouble. Supply chain complexity is analogous to cholesterol.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Planners Analogous to Secretarial Pools? In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results. We sidestep vacuous terms like digital supply chain and attempt to measure and redefine flows based the redefinition of planning. The So What?

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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors

Supply Chain Shaman

In a recent research project, we found that 2/3 of companies had a digital supply chain transformation strategy; however, those that were evolving their strategy performed better during the early months of the pandemic than those that were “clear” on the project plan for a digital transformation.