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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. Generalize procurement of materials. Look at the purchase of materials as a buy-sell transaction.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Absolutely! Absolutely!

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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. In 2013, the company drove scale for finished goods. The total cost of ownership analyzes the total costs of the buying decision. The company is now focusing on cognitive sourcing, demand-driven procurement, and enhancing visibility. Step Two: Rationalize, Localize.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizational alignment in manufacturing organizations is worse between operations and finance teams today than in 2013. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams.

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