Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. Procurement processes–encumbered by a focus on paperless processing, RFPs/RFQs, and efficient procurement–do not embrace the capabilities and requirements of direct material sourcing. Current State of Visibility.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

This blog post started a series of telephone calls. The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The In this blog, I try to answer both questions. Definition. Merriam-Webster.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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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

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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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

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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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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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I covered my observations from the May event in a previous blog. Tailor your supply chain to cater to diverse businesses: In his keynote, Mourad Tamoud, EVP of Global Supply Chain Operations of Schneider Electric talked about how they are segmenting their supply network based on their customer personas and purchasing behaviors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Before reading this post, consider reading my prior blog post, Don’t AI This. The translation of ripple effects of short supply, pricing, quality issues, and freight shifts affects how to source, make, and deliver processes should align. Or mine supplier shifts to build alternate buying plans. Or transform work?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In this blog post, I publically answer the questions from the webinar. In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources. The best way to start the design of an agile supply chain is to look at the sources of variability and market volatility that your supply chain encountered in the prior year.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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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

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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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Source: Descartes Datamyne. Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience. Figure 1: U.S. Somewhat nailed it.

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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. Older men buy less underwear than younger males and their packaging was not as attractive to the female shopper buying for the family. Their questions were could the supply chain help?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns. ” I smiled and thanked her for her contribution to my blog. In this blog, I share the case study of Sleep Number. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. Customer Service Failure.

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IQMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bottom Line : In 2021 and beyond, customers are voting with their dollars for the manufacturers who excel at sustainable manufacturing and make a positive contribution to the environment, dominating B2B supply chains and B2C purchasing decisions. of all North American manufacturers have a sustainability policy in place, and 8.3%

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Over 93% of companies use Excel Spreadsheets to develop their plans. My response is “Hogwash.”

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

– Actions on the products and services purchased. – Actions on the way you buy. This means having an integrated decision-making tool to avoid having to compile multiple new data sources, new Excel files, new software, etc. Source new suppliers with a low carbon footprint. Take action with suppliers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2016

Avoid buying software from a consulting company. Do not buy software based on partnerships. Open source needs maintenance. With the evolution of open source software, be sure that the solution that you are purchasing can be maintained and evolved over time. They are very different.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. This purchase increases E2open’s capabilities for visibility into the processes of the outsourced semiconductor network of foundries. 3) Risky Business?

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ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

Over the years, we have moved from the first spend analysis initiatives, laboriously building Excel-based “spend cubes”, through to today’s automated, cloud-based, AI-driven, integrated, holistic (add your own buzz-word here…) procurement platform. Author: Peter Smith , Managing Director at Procurement Excellence Ltd.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. Troy-Bilt: TRs were used.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. In this blog, I’ll focus on the Q-commerce case. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed. Composability as an Enabler of Agility & Resilience.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. Happy new year! Please subscribe here. Read More ».

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

During the afternoon, as I quietly held the pieces for Jake’s monster, my mind composed my blog post for the week. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. Too much quilting, typing and repetitive motion….) I smiled and sat back enjoying the moment. Bio-engineering?

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. I give you this evidence in this blog.). We source this data from Y charts. The process mistakes include: Mistake #1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Let me start this blog by asking, “Shouldn’t you be worried too?” So, I write this blog with this bias. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. The average purchase order changes 3-4X before shipment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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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. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 18, 2021

Excellence, or superiority, is often the goal in corporate organizations. Each and every function, within its own right, strives for excellence and achievement in order for a company to collectively grow, evolve, and thrive. Achieving excellence seldom comes easy. A fatal misconception.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is the goal of this blog. Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. Digital sourcing? The use of new network technologies to sense and manage supplier relationships to ensure ethical and reliable sourcing.) Digital path to purchase? Reflection. The reason?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Other than the purchasing power, Covid has also shifted our buying behaviors, turning upside down what used to be typical when purchasing goods. Besides being excellent venues for chit-chats, social media networks will be the primary places to do shopping. Locally-sourced products will become viral.

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