Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. S&OP is all about aligning manufacturing and sales. It does this by gaining alignment across the sales, demand planning, manufacturing and finance organization. by John Westerveld.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I write for this blog, craft reports from research for our newsletters, create blogs for Linkedin, and build articles for Forbes. I define supply chain excellence as year-over-year performance better than the peer group on this balanced scorecard. 06/2020 Kinaxis buys Rubikloud for 60M$. Stay tuned.

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QAD

APRIL 7, 2022

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running. Purchasing is also required to buy goods at the lowest possible price, consistent with quality and delivery needs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

So, I thought that I would write a blog to answer what seems like a simple question. 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). I could not. Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I am currently working on a couple of case studies for this blog on how business leaders used digital twin modeling during the pandemic. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Over time, this changed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

For the purposes of this blog, market data is channel, logistics, and supplier data generated outside the organization.) The order latency is the time from purchase by the end consumer to the visibility of the order. For example, when a product at retail is purchased, the shelf is replenished from backroom stock.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As I write this blog, Valentine cards scatter my desk. In Figure 1, note the lowest satisfaction is Generation X (birth years of 1965-1980) in manufacturing organizations. In my share groups, large manufacturing clients have a Q1 freeze on travel. 3) Buy Technologies that Supply Chain Planners Will Love. The second?

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Freightos

JULY 1, 2015

Same goes for books, groceries, taxis, banking, canoe and even B2B purchases. These 200+ contracts will be in different formats, ranging from PDFs and Excels to simple emails. But today, you can buy a boat online. You can buy house-sized power generators. Heck, you can buy a house. Five tariffs are daunting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The secondary problem is the lack of definition of process requirements and a buying team that cannot see past simple MRP/MRP II/DDMRP requirements. Today, there are no authoritative identifiers to track and trace for containers, warehouse locations, trucks or manufacturing plants. These are authoritative identiers. Close this gap.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

In part one of this blog series, I started the saga of the supply chain fairy tale. It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. One that is going to eat you up!

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My Office Apps

JANUARY 16, 2024

Start Your Year with Cloud-Based ERP: The Ultimate Guide to Operational Excellence Begin your year on a transformative note by embracing the power of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Operational Excellence with Cloud-Based ERP Procurement Management Efficiently manage your procurement processes with ERP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In a recent blog post, I was challenged by Anna. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) I know that your primary focus is procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. Clarity of Supply Chain Excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. While many employers would have penalized the employees for tablet breakage , Peggy explored the world of wearables to enable her digital manufacturing transformation. To solve these problems, AGCO partnered with Proceedix to develop an application for manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

At that time, manufacturers talked about customer-centric supply chains, but were afraid to aggressively adopt ecommerce strategies. Manufacturers, today, are aggressively pursuing e-commerce strategies. If you are going to be excellent at ecommerce fulfillment, you need to have great perpetual inventory capabilities.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

. “Reach out to other departments about ways to collaborate on sustainability initiatives, and talk to your executive team to gain buy in.” Start with something simple like reducing inefficiencies within your own manufacturing facility or within your own carrier base.” ” Second, look for short-term wins.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied. These solutions require greater insights and understanding by the manufacturer and implementing company.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Data is a crucial component of digital transformation in the manufacturing sector. Many manufacturers aren’t maximizing the value from enriching data and missing out on opportunities to grow, optimize or manage risk. Here are 3 ways manufacturers can monetize data and increase efficiency: 1. Create new revenue models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

” I smiled and thanked her for her contribution to my blog. I called the customer service line for the manufacturer and was told that the only thing I could do was call a maintenance specialist. In this blog, I share the case study of Sleep Number. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. He got the point.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s no secret that manufacturing companies around the world are rethinking their supply chain strategies. Many operations turned to lean manufacturing to take any inventory out of their pipelines that could put their supply chain on the line. Australian reshoring strategies for advanced manufacturing .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

How can manufacturers manage disruption and improve productivity? By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Therefore, manufacturers must continually look for new ways to improve the productivity and profitability of their operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. For more on this announcement reference the Supply Chain Shaman blog post, Third Time the Charm? The capabilities of the technologies were often more advanced than the processes of the manufacturers and retailer. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. If you, like most, are running your supply chain based on ERP and Excel spreadsheet data, you are not prepared. I highly recommend his blog. No one knows. What to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Today, as I type this blog post, the rain is softly falling on my window sill. With this in mind, in this blog, I make an argument that we, as supply chain leaders, have screwed up direct material procurement. This is not the case with the purchase of direct materials. The wet streets below signal a shift in seasons.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published. Download an Excel version of the list here for free ! shipping address for E-Commerce purchasing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

” In this blog, I share the insights on the current state of the healthcare value chain and the recommendations of the panelists. (I Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. Healthcare.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

As you read this blog, I hope that you will see me as a positive contrarian versus an old curmudgeon. One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. As I listen, I struggle. Is this success?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In this blog post, I publically answer the questions from the webinar. These can be shift in the channel, issues in manufacturing, increasing variability in transportation, or a shift in commodity prices. Flexible Manufacturing Scheduling Practices: The design of manufacturing processes to flex with market fluctuations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

The operating margin for the medical device industry is 4X that of the automotive manufacturer and 2x the margin of the hospital. There is an inverse relationship between margin and supply chain excellence. Zimmer’s strategic framework focuses on growth, operational excellence and prudent capital allocation. It matters more.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Before reading this post, consider reading my prior blog post, Don’t AI This. ” I believe that the focus should be improving reliability (Forecast Value Added (FVA), first pass tender and yield, and manufacturing schedule adherence) while decreasing process, demand, and data latency. Or transform work?” How about you?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

This is the focus of this blog post. We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. We will never redesign healthcare for better outcomes if we do not redesign the buy/sell relationship and improve the understanding of the service providers on why supply chain matters. It is coming.

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QAD

JULY 25, 2019

Smartphone apps, online banking, flight purchase, shopping websites and so many other experiences are designed with intuitive and easy-to-learn user interface to improve user experiences. The post An Adaptive UX is Imperative for Manufacturing ERP Selection appeared first on QAD Blog.

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