Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Across all these activities, however, the nerve center acts as a single, authoritative information source, point of contact, and decision-making venue.”[6] Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [3]

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2014

For me, tonight sitting facing the city skyline in the dark, 2015 sounds so far in the future; but, I know that it is on the horizon. When 2015 rolls in, for me, it will mark a decade of quantitative research focused on understanding the evolution of supply chain management. … this is the last blog of 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my blog readers. This is my 440th blog post and the tenth anniversary Supply Chain Shaman. In Figure 1, I share data from the risk management study of 2015. The Role of Demand Variability in Risk Mitigation from the 2015 Study. …the weekend is just around the corner.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality? If you can excite the people around you about sourcing responsibly, chances are you’ll be able to formulate a network of internal champions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2024

2015-Present. As a result, there is no good way to make trade-offs between source, make and deliver constraints. Thinking More Broadly An interesting thread from Michael Watson’s recent blog centers on the basic definition of computing. Focus on Integration. Redefinition of Decision Support with Cloud-Server Multi-Scalers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. A Look at History. Organizational structure matters.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This blog highlights key strategies from these recent forums on sustainable procurement and practical tips to achieve impactful results. Companies can pull in master and transactional data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud and integrate supplier data and third-party sources. C above pre-industrial levels.”

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Reportedly, Eliott participated in the original buyout of E2open in 2015. This report cautions that the hedge fund is evaluating its next steps and that the sources are asking not to be identified because the matter is private. © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 24, 2016

Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week. Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 5, 2016

It was an exciting year in the supply chain industry, and our Transportfolio ® blog has followed the action every step of the way. Discover more on our other blogs, which are also authored by respected industry experts and supply chain professionals with unique insights and diverse perspectives.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2023

Sourcing Strategy Implications In highlighting this Airbus increased investment within China, business media has been contrasting Apple’s ongoing moves to initiate alternative sourcing of both iPhone and other product hardware to other parts of Asia including India. All rights reserved.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2022

”[5] Nestlé’s goal is to ensure at least 20% of its key ingredients are sourced through regenerative agricultural methods by 2025 and 50% of its key ingredients are sourced through regenerative agricultural methods by 2030. degrees Celsius, as laid out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. ” Footnotes. [1]

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Suhas Bhise (Head of PPC, Logistics and Sourcing, Arvind Limited): At Arvind, we began looking for a new solution because there was a limitation to how much our existing planning system could meet our requirements. The featured experts in this blog post have more to say in our latest eBook, Breakthrough Business Ideas.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Author : Emad Atef – CSCA, MBA (Candidate), Procurement and Sourcing Manager. Bixby Cooper , 166; Sunil Chopra, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Global Edition: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (Boston: Pearson, 2015), 273; Heizer, Operations Management , 507. Boston: Pearson, 2015. References.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

Background In a number of prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentaries, we have highlighted for readers how global smartphone and consumer electronics provider Apple has behind the scenes been influencing key contract manufacturing and component suppliers to begin to establish alternative sourcing of materials and production beyond China.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. Higher percentage of growth than the industry average for the period of 2006-2015. Greater margin performance than the industry average for the peer group for the period of 2006-2015. Operating Margin.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The initial findings from the investigation indicate that a subset of illnesses may be linked to slivered onions used in the Quarter Pounder and sourced by a single supplier that serves three distribution centers. Once again, federal food safety officials are focusing on a single production facility as the suspected source of the listeria.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A report initially published by The Information and subsequently industry publication Freightways , cited sources indicating that this provider had taken this action. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Robinson and Echo Global Logistics. Stay tuned.

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Logility

MAY 7, 2020

Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. www.forbes.com , 2015. DHL Research Brief, 2015. www.logility.com/blog , 2017. Organizations are simply overwhelmed. Accenture, 2014. 3 Lisa Harrington.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. Founded in 2015, Ascend currently operates a facility in Georgia , and aims to build another recycling facility in Kentucky.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 25, 2023

A report initially published by The Information ( Paid subscription ) and subsequently industry publication Freightways , cited sources indicating that the Seattle based company, that counted Jeff Bezos , Bill Gates and Marc Benioff as investors, with Fidelity and T Rowe Price as later stage backers has taken this action.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The blog was uglier then and less polished, and I have learned a lot about blogging over the years; however, my focus is the same. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. You will note that there is no advertising for the blog and I am never paid to write. The source of the content is research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. In this blog, I share my thoughts on recent announcements. In 2015, after a failed IPO, Insight Venture Partners (Insight) acquired E2open for $273M. For Llamasoft it is sourcing rationalization and risk management network design.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here’s another blog from my colleague, Rajinder Bhandal from Leeds University. The goal should be to maintain domestic sources where doing so makes sense in terms of national security and to create a global network of trusted suppliers willing to become part of the blockchain / visibility network” (p.78,

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Elementum

MAY 26, 2022

This is Part One of a multi-part blog, and we ’ ll be focusing here on the impacts from the evolving macro trends we’ve noted above, with some added perspective on the way the global supply network has become exponentially more complicated in the last 20 years. From 2015 to 2018, Amazon’s average delivery time decreased from 6 days to 3 days.

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QAD

JANUARY 16, 2020

Further complicating matters, auto manufacturers source ECUs from many different suppliers, meaning that no one player is in control of, or even familiar with, all of a vehicle’s source code. The post The Growing Need for Automotive Cybersecurity appeared first on QAD Blog. million vehicles.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The invention of the ocean container as a means for inter-modal sea and surface transportation movements have orchestrated the march toward lowest cost global based sourcing of components and materials. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in this blog, I am going to rely on the account of the songwriter, that the song is a childhood story about a dragon that lived in Honalee. In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. Clean Data.

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 9, 2023

Since 2015, PTC has hosted LiveWorx , a global forum that brings together manufacturing executives, engineers, product designers, quality leaders, supply chain partners, and other like-minded individuals who are focused on harnessing disruptive technologies to manage uncertainty and transform their business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Blog post originally created and published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at [link] Check out the Kodiak Rating blog at [link] . The concept of GSCM (Green Supply Chain Management) is to integrate environmental thinking into supply chain management (SCM)” ( Chin 2015 ). Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Examples include alternate sourcing, bill of material changes or alternate modes/routing between the planning, procurement and transportation.) Investors moaned.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

Moller – Maersk, and CEO Soren Toft of MSC say: MSC and Maersk recognize that much has changed since the two companies signed the 10-year agreement in 2015. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. In a joint statement, CEO Vincent Clerc of A. All rights reserved.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2022

But as US trade representative Katherine Tai, recently stated, “We cannot just go back to the world in 2015 and pretend like these things didn’t happen.”[2] 10] They agree “western nations and organizations need to diversify their manufacturing and sourcing portfolios outside of China.” Concluding Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

In 2015 Insight acquired E2open, and Infor acquired GT Nexus. After a very tough decade, the Supply Chain Operating Network solutions were evolving with strong development plans during the period of 2012-2015. . She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Writing a Shaman blog post is now a Sunday night ritual. When readers finish a Supply Chain Shaman blog, I want to drive a set of unique takeaways. In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. If you would like to participate in 2015, let us know. Business Dictionary.com.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. One source reports disruptions increased over 60% between 2019 and 2020. Source: McKinsey. This may even suggest much larger safety stocks and in some cases, a whole new sourcing agreement.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

The Boston Consulting Group said at the 2015 Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Marketing Institute (GMA/FMI) supply chain conference that 22% of polled respondents said less accurate forecasts were one of their top hurdles to improving service. We have seen hundreds of companies benefit from leveraging downstream data.

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