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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. In contrast, Blue Yonder is investing $1 billion over three years in the platform for their solutions. OMP: A lot of new chiefs. The jury is out.

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Demand Planning. When The Answer To Two Simple Questions Is Not So Simple.

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company focused primarily on retail planning and wanted to extend its capabilities into a consumer products manufacturing solutions offering. In implementing planning, most of the focus in purchasing technology in the sales cycle is on optimization. ” The next call was with a technology provider. Models Matter.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). As a result, when I was a Gartner analyst and technology providers would provoke me to write a Magic Quadrant on visibility solutions, I would laugh. These solutions are proprietary and closed. Organizational talent.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As part of LogiSYM Asia Pacific 2022, we had the opportunity to chat with Vittorio Favati, Chief Executive Officer – TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS. Currently, I am leading the Global Forwarding Solutions (GFS) business of TVS SCS. while nearly doubling the size of the company. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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2016: The Start of the Third Act?

Supply Chain Shaman

We are also more advanced on transportation and warehouse planning than supply chain planning. With the evolution of Software as a Service (SAAS) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) technologies there are now more options. 2004 data references the work that I completed while an analyst at AMR Research.) What do you think?

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The secret to distance selling success

DELMIA Quintiq

The reluctance to purchase groceries online seems to be a German peculiarity. French retailer Chronodrive has been doing this since 2004 and has since gained a steady following of 130,000 customers. Central warehousing concepts are doomed to fail. Despite this clear upward trend, some goods are not enjoying similar success.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group.