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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Business leaders see the open sharing of feedback on software as too risky. Buying supply chain planning software is hard.

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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often see statements like “move from a functional-silo’d focus to a drive a more holistic response.” In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. Organizational Alignment 2012. ” Sound familiar? To respond, follow this link.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Belief in efficient procurement. Alignment Barriers.

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Supply Chain Management – A 2012 Priority

Logility

ChainLink Research and SupplyChainBrain just released “ Business Priorities 2012 – Research and Results ” which takes a look at where companies will invest in the coming year. And yet, our respondents do expect business expansion and intend to invest to make it happen in 2012.”

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Navigating The Snails Trail: Moving to Outside-in Planning Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I ” Noel is one of the 84 sign-ups in my outside-in training (five virtual classes starting next week), and I hope that he has a better understanding at the end of the class. Why is there a discontinuous line on the model?”

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Supply Chain Executives are building “Centers of Excellence” – because they support business strategies!

NC State SCRC

Services that can be shared among the various business units of a company include finance, purchasing, inventory, payroll, hiring, and information technology. Since then, shared services have evolved into a more comprehensive and flexible tool for improving processes, enabling technology investment, generating profits, and reducing costs.a

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. History of E2open.